2. The North Pole has no land The North Pole has no land and is entirely made up of constantly shifting ice floating on top of the Arctic Ocean. And, according to the National Environmental ...

The Arctic night lasts for several months in Svalbard, an archipelago near the North Pole accustomed to the long ... of the ...

Other countries eye the North Pole When Russia first put forward the ... also registered claims to the seabed beneath the Arctic Ocean: Canada, Denmark, Norway and the United States.

The smallest and shallowest ocean is the Arctic Ocean. It surrounds the Arctic and the North Pole. The Arctic is the coldest of all the oceans. Most of the Arctic Ocean is covered with ice all year.

European scientists think they can now describe with confidence what's driving the drift of the North Magnetic Pole. It's shifted in recent years away from Canada towards Siberia. And this rapid ...