I believe the geomagnetic pole falls somewhere in that region
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someguy3@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Not exactly north pole.
Fondots@lemmy.world 1 month ago
someguy3@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Fondots@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That’s a map of the magnetic “dip” pole not the geomagnetic pole. They are slightly different things.
I’m a bit out of my depth, so I’m not gonna try to explain the distinction because I don’t really understand it very well myself, it’s just a fun fact I picked up somewhere.
But AFAIK, the geomagnetic pole is still supposed to be somewhere around Canada/Greenland
Also, not for nothing, but those are two different map projections so with how things get distorted around the poles in the OPs map,it’s a little hard to directly compare them. Remember that with cylindrical projections the whole top edge of the map basically represents a single point (the geographic north Pole) so things are often a lot closer together than they may look on the map. Just from eyeballing the two maps as an amateur who uses maps more than the average person but doesn’t exactly study them, I wasn’t 100% confident that the dip pole wasn’t in one of those higher spots of the puffin’s range (it’s not, I confirmed on a couple other maps, but it’s closer than you might think just from casually looking at these two maps.)
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 month ago
mapswithoutNZ
fossilesque@mander.xyz 1 month ago
Above the Arctic Circle at least.
hansolo@lemmy.today 1 month ago
To be fair, neither are reindeer IRL.
Santa’s sleigh should be pulled by 8 murderous polar bears.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Murderous flying polar bears.
someguy3@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Uh well technically I guess but it’s a ton better.
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hansolo@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Exactly. Ain’t nothin alive up there besides scientists running from student loan debt.
plyth@feddit.org 1 month ago
What limits their migration further north in western Eurasia?
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Real estate prices.
Tja@programming.dev 1 month ago
But santa lives in Finland…
hansolo@lemmy.today 1 month ago
…And commutes to the North Pole workshop M W F and works from home on Tue and Thu. Try and keep up, OK?
rumba@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
🎵Rudolph with his nose so red, better run now or you’ll soon be dead🎶
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Wasn’t that what the witch from Narnia did?
hansolo@lemmy.today 1 month ago
And Santa is a much more powerful demon. So that tracks.