Where is the North Pole?

The Geographic North Pole (True North) is located at 90°N latitude in the middle of the Arctic Ocean. Unlike the South Pole (which sits on the Antarctic continent), the North Pole has no land mass — just an ice sheet floating on 4,000-meter-deep ocean water. The ice is typically 2–3 meters thick but is thinning due to climate change. The Magnetic North Pole — where compass needles point — is a separate location currently in the Canadian Arctic, near Ellesmere Island. It has been drifting northwestward at about 55 km per year (up from 15 km/year in the early 1900s) and is heading toward Siberia. The first confirmed surface expedition to the North Pole was by Ralph Plaisted's team in 1968 using snowmobiles.