Comments on: What are the GPS coordinates of the north pole? http://www.gpsbuyerguide.com/blog/what-are-the-gps-coordinates-of-the-north-pole/ Sat, 01 Jan 2011 11:56:36 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: McKinley http://www.gpsbuyerguide.com/blog/what-are-the-gps-coordinates-of-the-north-pole/comment-page-1/#comment-2149 McKinley Sat, 25 Apr 2009 22:25:45 +0000 http://www.gpsbuyerguide.com/blog/what-are-the-gps-coordinates-of-the-north-pole/#comment-2149 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. 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.

]]> By: marcelino angelo http://www.gpsbuyerguide.com/blog/what-are-the-gps-coordinates-of-the-north-pole/comment-page-1/#comment-2148 marcelino angelo Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:03:39 +0000 http://www.gpsbuyerguide.com/blog/what-are-the-gps-coordinates-of-the-north-pole/#comment-2148 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." 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.”

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