Located about 66.5 degrees north of the Equator lies the Arctic Circle — a line of latitude that outlines the border of Earth's northernmost region known as the Arctic.

The North Magnetic Pole couldn't be claimed by a nation anyway because it shifts location over time due to magnetic changes in the Earth's core, but it generally resides in the Arctic Circle, not ...

Lightning struck near the North Pole 48 times. It's not normal. A warmer Arctic in general provided the fuel for lightning-producing thunderheads to move north.

A modern expedition follows the path of Hubert Wilkins, who set out for the North Pole in 1931 in a decrepit WW1 submarine.

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As the Arctic warms, lightning strikes are more frequent – even near the North Pole By Allison Chinchar and Haley Brink , CNN Meteorologists 4 minute read ...

The first man to reach the North Pole was overlooked for decades. ... Finland, and Russia are above the Arctic Circle. The largest Arctic settlements are Murmansk (population: about 270,000) ...

That drive started in March on the frozen waters of the Arctic Circle near the North Pole. It ended in December, about nine months and approximately 20,000 miles later, at the South Pole in ...

Last year, FIU professor David Kadko led a team of 51 U.S. scientists into the Arctic on the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy. Reaching the North Pole on Sept. 5, 2015, his landmark expedition aimed ...