the North Pole

noun

: the most northern point on the surface of the earth

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Their flight curved over the North Pole and landed at Rovaniemi Airport, in northern Finland. Jim Huylebroek, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2025 Then and now: A photographer ventured deep into the Arctic Circle — midway between Norway and the North Pole — to capture images recreating archived pictures taken from the same locations more than 100 years ago. Daniel Wine, CNN Money, 8 Apr. 2025 The first effect is that the eclipse path is traveling over the top of Earth, missing the North Pole by 60 miles (100 kilometers). Ryan French, Space.com, 8 Apr. 2025 The polar vortex is a gigantic, circular area of cold air high up in the atmosphere that typically spins over the North Pole (as its name suggests). Doyle Rice, USA Today, 5 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for the North Pole

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