Rapid Drift of Magnetic North Explained

Earth Sky ^ | May 18, 2020 | Deborah Byrd

[Tallguy]

Everything is south of True North...

[minnesota_bound]

Every so often I go up near the North Pole and drop a magnet nearby. The location of the North Pole changes soon after. Scientists still have not figured it out.

[SunkenCiv]

...appears to be controlled from deep within Earth by 2 competing blobs in the magnetic field. One is under Canada, and the other is under Siberia. “The Siberian blob is winning,” according to scientists.

Thanks Robert A Cook PE.

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[Abathar]

My war cry was always “Yakutsk!” And I staged from there.

[teeman8r]

i would summer in Yakutsk...

and i would always try to take the southern hemisphere and take pieces of every other continent.

[6ppc]

Yeah...buts what the point?