13 Facts About North Pole

North Pole is by definition the northernmost point on the Earth, lying antipodally to the South Pole.

Studies in the 2000s predicted that the North Pole may become seasonally ice-free because of Arctic ice shrinkage, with timescales varying from 2016 to the late 21st century or later.

Attempts to reach the North Pole began in the late 19th century, with the record for "Farthest North" being surpassed on numerous occasions.

The first undisputed expedition to reach the North Pole was that of the airship Norge, which overflew the area in 1926 with 16 men on board, including expedition leader Roald Amundsen.

One of the earliest expeditions to set out with the explicit intention of reaching the North Pole was that of British naval officer William Edward Parry, who in 1827 reached latitude 82°45' North.

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Conquest of the North Pole was for many years credited to US Navy engineer Robert Peary, who claimed to have reached the Pole on 6 April 1909, accompanied by Matthew Henson and four Inuit men, Ootah, Seeglo, Egingwah, and Ooqueah.

Discounting Peary's disputed claim, the first men to set foot at the North Pole were a Soviet party including geophysicists Mikhail Ostrekin and Pavel Senko, oceanographers Mikhail Somov and Pavel Gordienko, and other scientists and flight crew of Aleksandr Kuznetsov's Sever-2 expedition .

On 17 March 1959 USS Skate surfaced at the North Pole, breaking through the ice above it, becoming the first naval vessel to do so.

The next attempted dive at the North Pole was organized the next year by the same diving club, and ended in success on 24 April 1999.

North Pole's feat, undertaken to highlight the effects of global warming, took place in clear water that had opened up between the ice floes.

Sun at the North Pole is continuously above the horizon during the summer and continuously below the horizon during the winter.

North Pole is substantially warmer than the South Pole because it lies at sea level in the middle of an ocean, rather than at altitude on a continental land mass.

In some children's Christmas legends and Western folklore, the geographic North Pole is described as the location of Santa Claus' legendary workshop and residence, although the depictions have been inconsistent between the geographic and magnetic North Pole.