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North Pole is a small city in the Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska, United States. Incorporated in 1953, it is part of the Fairbanks metropolitan statistical area . As of the 2020 census , the city had a population of 2,243, [ 2 ] up from 2,117 in 2010. [ 3 ]
Gerardus Mercator's map of the North Pole from 1595 C.G. Zorgdragers map of the North Pole from 1720. As early as the 16th century, many prominent people correctly believed that the North Pole was in a sea, which in the 19th century was called the Polynya or Open Polar Sea. [7]
The most northern settlements on Earth are communities close to the North Pole, ranging from about 70° N to about 89° N.The North Pole itself is at 90° N. There are no permanent civilian settlements north of 79° N, the furthest north (78.55° N) being Ny-Ålesund, a permanent settlement of about 30 (in the winter) to 130 (in the summer) people on the Norwegian island of Svalbard.
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Alert lies just 817 km (508 mi) from the North Pole; the nearest Canadian city is Iqaluit, the capital of the territory of Nunavut, 2,092 km (1,300 mi) distant. The settlement is surrounded by rugged hills and valleys. The shore is composed primarily of slate and shale. Argillite and greywacke also occur. Some of these rocks are calcareous.
North Pole-19 A.N.Chilingarov: November 7, 1969 April 16, 1973 ... Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. Download coordinates as: KML; GPX (all coordinates)
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Arctic Alaska or Far North Alaska is a region of the U.S. state of Alaska generally referring to the northern areas on or close to the Arctic Ocean. It commonly includes North Slope Borough , Northwest Arctic Borough , Nome Census Area , and is sometimes taken to include parts of the Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area .