Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1893 — Two North Poles. [ARTICLE]

Two North Poles.

It can be properly said that there are two north poles.' The geographical north pole (the place where all degrees of longitude intersect and where there is no latitude) and the north magnetic pole, the latter being the needle’s attraction. The first mentioned or geographical pole is fixed and constant, but the magnetic is constantly changing position, and at the rate it is now traveling will make a complete circuit of the geographical pole about once in every 640 years. Observations on this point were first made from the Greenwich observatory in 1658, at which date the magnetic pole was on that meridian. During the last 235 years it has crossed the Atlantic ocean and is now well on its journey across the northern part of the American continent. At the present time it is on or near the southwestern shore of Boothia peninsula, at about seventy-six decrees north latitude. The Naval Asylum of the Un ted States <r,. established in 1833 near.Philade phis.