magnetic pole

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These changes are driven by complex activity in Earth's turbulent core and are connected to the gradual movement of the northern magnetic pole toward Siberia in recent years.

From Science Daily • Feb. 25, 2026

This is distinct from the northernmost magnetic pole, which is the point where Earth's magnetic field points vertically downward, although the two locations are relatively close to each other.

From Salon • Jan. 24, 2024

The northern lights appear in a region around the earth’s magnetic pole, called the “auroral oval” or “auroral zone”, explains Don Hampton, research associate professor at the Geophysical Institute of the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

From National Geographic • Dec. 1, 2023

For example, magnetic monopole quasiparticles have only one magnetic pole — unlike all ordinary magnets, which always have a north and a south.

From Nature • Jul. 2, 2020

It seemed Richard Parker was such a magnetic pole of life, so charismatic in his vitality, that other expressions of life found it intol­erable.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel