What are the GPS coordinates of the north pole?
Sir Readalot asked:
Yeah, everybody knows that, but what is its latitude?
I mean longitude.
And like, what time zone is the north pole in?
Yeah, everybody knows that, but what is its latitude?
I mean longitude.
And like, what time zone is the north pole in?
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The north pole is assigned the value of 90 degrees North latitude.
The Longitude is meaningless at the north pole (and the south pole too). It has all longitudes at the same time.
“Time zones are determined by lines of longitude, so the system falls apart where the lines meet at the poles. More importantly, the poles don’t experience daytime and nighttime the way the rest of the planet does. Each pole gets six months of daylight and six months of darkness — which makes for one really long day.
Both the North and South Poles officially use Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), also known as Greenwich Mean Time. This time zone is based on highly precise atomic clocks kept at various world laboratories.”
Depends which North Pole you are wanting to find the coordinates for.
Geographic North Pole: 90°N
- Because all lines of longitude merge at this latitude, there is not longitudinal component to the coordinates (it is essentially ALL lines of longitude)
Magnetic North Pole: 82.7° N 114.4° W (wandering north)
- This constantly moves around the arctic ocean on the flow of the mantle. But it is currently in that location.
Hope that helps.