Not a lot going on up here. Google Earth The North Pole may not look the way it's depicted in children's books, but there is a mysterious ocean portal there: the 14,070-foot-deep Fram Basin.

The North Pole has no land mass at all. Instead, it’s made up of huge ice floes, 6 to 10 feet thick, that float on the surface of the Arctic Ocean. Beneath the ice, the water is 13,400 feet deep.

The "North Pole" has multiple meanings; it can indicate the geographically northernmost point on Earth or to the spot where compasses point. And, most enchantingly, it can refer to Santa's ...

Unlike the South Pole, which is located on Antarctica and has a considerable amount of land mass, the North Pole lies in the middle of the Arctic Ocean and is covered by thick sheets of ice.

South Pole: Where the North Pole is located in a body of water, the South Pole can be found on part of the land which lies on a continental mass called Antarctica and that continent it at a much ...

Unlike the South Pole, which is located on Antarctica and has a considerable amount of land mass, the North Pole lies in the middle of the Arctic Ocean and is covered by thick sheets of ice.

London is calling. The planet’s North Pole mysteriously changed the direction of its travel in 2000, turning eastwards towards the Greenwich meridian. It now seems that this change in direction ...

This is because the South Pole is home to land ice in addition to its sea ice — the ice sheet on Antarctica is up to 3 miles (4.8 km) thick and covers about 5.3 million square miles (13.7 ...

A National Geographic map shows the intersecting regions of the Canadian and Russian North Pole – the alleged location of the video – and its distance from the nearest land mass of the countries .

As they moved south, the marine current was pushing the frozen mass on which they were walking north. In two months of trudging, exhausted, over the ice, they only managed to advance 10 miles.

In an unsupported expedition, North Pole travelers must ski, snowshoe, swim, and climb, all while towing a 300-pound sled of supplies approximately 480 miles, which takes about 50 to 70 days.

There is no land under the North Pole. Instead, there is an ever-shifting, ever-churning sheet of sea ice — one that, as Holly Morris’ new documentary reminds us, is becoming even weaker and ...