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The North Pole, also known as the Geographic North Pole, Terrestrial North Pole or 90th Parallel North, is the point in the Northern Hemisphere where the Earth's axis of rotation meets its surface. It is called the True North Pole to distinguish from the Magnetic North Pole .
KJNP-FM (100.3 FM) is a radio station licensed to serve North Pole, Alaska. [1] The station is owned by Evangelistic Alaska Missionary Fellowship. It airs a Religious radio format. [3] [4] KJNP-FM was founded by Don & Gen Nelson. [5] The station was assigned the KJNP-FM call letters by the Federal Communications Commission on January 26, 1981. [6]
First to reach North Pole during the Arctic winter: Børge Ousland and Mike Horn. March 23, 2006; First to reach North Pole on snowshoes exclusively: April 26, 2006 North Pole Classic. Richard Weber guided Conrad Dickinson to the North Pole with no re-supplies. This was Richard Weber's fifth full North Pole expedition.
1959: USS Skate (SSN-578) becomes first submarine to surface at the North Pole on 17 March 1959; 1960: TIROS-1, is the first weather satellite in polar orbit; eventually returned 22,952 cloud cover photos [11] 1968: Ralph Plaisted and three others reach the North Pole by snowmobile and are the first confirmed overland conquest of the Pole
The expedition was notable for taking along an amateur radio operator, Don Mix, who used station WNP ("Wireless North Pole") to keep them in contact with the outside world. [ 8 ] In 1923 there was concern about a new ice age and he again sailed toward the North Pole aboard the Bowdoin , sponsored by the National Geographical Society to look for ...
He is best known for his participation in the 1908–1909 expedition that claimed to have reached the geographic North Pole on April 6, 1909. Henson said he was the first of their party to reach the North Pole. Henson was born in Nanjemoy, Maryland, to sharecropper parents who were free Black Americans before the Civil War.
The Polar Challenge was a competitive, 350 nautical mile (650 kilometer) team race taking place in the Arctic, to the 1996 location of the Magnetic North Pole.The race ran between mid-April and mid-May each year, taking teams approximately 4 weeks to complete, including the training time.
Like the North Magnetic Pole, the North Geomagnetic Pole attracts the north pole of a bar magnet and so is in a physical sense actually a magnetic south pole. It is the center of the 'open' magnetic field lines which connect to the interplanetary magnetic field and provide a direct route for the solar wind to reach the ionosphere.