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The North Pole faces away from the galactic centre of the Milky Way ; this results in there being far fewer and less bright visible stars in the northern hemisphere compared to the Southern Hemisphere, making the Northern Hemisphere more suitable for deep-space observation, as it is not " blinded " by the Milky Way.
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In 1607 and 1608, the English Muscovy Company had sent him northward to look for a route over the North Pole or across the top of Russia.
The ship's compass was useless because of the nearness of the magnetic North Pole.
Fridtjof Nansen won international fame after reaching a record northern latitude of 86 ° 14 ′ during his Nansen's Fram expedition | North Pole expedition of 1893 – 96.
* 1909 – Robert Peary and Matthew Henson reach the North Pole.
* 1977 – The Soviet icebreaker Arktika became the first surface ship to reach the North Pole.
The Antarctic ( or ) is a polar region, specifically the region around the Earth's South Pole, opposite the Arctic region around the North Pole.
Other towns include North Pole, just southeast of Fairbanks, Eagle, Tok, Glennallen, Delta Junction, Nenana, Anderson, Healy and Cantwell.
In this image, North ( the direction towards the North Celestial Pole ) is up and East is left, and the white line is the rotational axis of Altair.
Australia-New Guinea, having split from Gondwana during the early Cretaceous, drifted north and, eventually, collided with South-east Asia ; Antarctica moved into its current position over the South Pole ; the Atlantic Ocean widened and, later in the era, South America became attached to North America.
This has been put forward by J. Richard Gott III, James E. Gunn, David N. Schramm, and Beatrice Tinsley, who said that asking what occurred before the Big Bang is like asking what is north of the North Pole.
Unlike in many other European countries, the general image of Święty Mikołaj in Poland is basically no different to the one of the Anglo-Saxon Santa Claus ( he is said to live in the North Pole, wear red clothes and a white beard, use reindeers to pull his sleigh, or enter houses via the chimney ).
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Denmark is trying to prove that the North Pole is geographically connected to Greenland.
If such proof is established, Denmark will claim the North Pole.
Several of the levels take place near the North Pole.
They make the toys in a workshop located in the North Pole.
Father Christmas is often said to reside at the North Pole or less commonly, in the mountains of Korvatunturi in Lapland, Finland.
In The Father Christmas Letters, which Tolkien wrote for his children, Red Gnomes are helpful creatures who come from Norway to the North Pole to assist Father Christmas and his Elves in fighting the wicked Goblins.
He proposed making an expedition to the North Pole hole, thanks to efforts of one of his followers, James McBride.
William Fairfield Warren, in his book, Paradise Found: The Cradle of the Human Race at the North Pole presented his belief that humanity had originated on a continent in the Arctic, called Hyperborea, this view influenced some of the early hollow earth theorists.
Antarctica, the North Pole, Tibet, Peru, and Mount Shasta in California, USA, have all had their advocates as the locations of entrances to a subterranean realm referred to as Agartha, with some even advancing the hypothesis that UFOs have their homeland in these places.
In 2011, Horatio Valens and Paul Veneti presented a two-hour " Lazeria Map Collection " video on centuries-old maps of the Arctic region and the North Pole, making a case for a 100-mile wide canyon in the center of the physical North Pole, into which north-flowing rivers drain into a hollow Earth.
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That year the loss of North Vietnam to the communists and the rejection of his proposed European Defense Community ( EDC ) were serious defeats, but he remained optimistic in his opposition to the spread of communism, saying " Long faces don't win wars ".
Many fall or autumn North European folk black face customs are employed ritualistically to appease the forces of the oncoming winter, utilizing characters with blackened faces, or black masks.
At present, Iliamna faces the prospect of developing into a mining town, as several multi-national companies have plans to develop the area north west of the village into one of North America's largest gold-copper-molybdenum mines.
In 1857 a gold rush to the Whiskey Flat area in the early 1850s brought a flood of new faces to the lower North Fork area, and in the mountains and canyons nearby.
As it descends in its orbit from the North Pole, it faces west, and when it ascends from the South Pole, it faces east.
This leads to dipslope landforms, with generally steeper East and North faces, and trellis drainage, where rivers and old glacial valleys followed the weaker layers in the geological succession.
The God House is built very low to the ground so that it is hard to see into and it is oriented to North, South, East, and West with the entrance on the east side where it faces toward Maya ruins and the sunrise.
It faces east, away from the prevailing winds, which together with the North Atlantic Drift gives it a mild climate allowing the Cordyline australis palm or cabbage tree to prosper.
North and west faces of Linlithgow Palace
Along with many other species, this thrush faces threats both to its North American breeding grounds and Central American wintering grounds.
* By compass points: Assuming that the dancer faces North at any moment, one may say, e. g., " take a step North-West ".
Also, in the fictional year 2031, Greece and Guatemala are considered anti-American nations ( along with North Korea and Albania ) and the black-dominated South African government faces attacks from a radical white terrorist group called WIZO.
However, due to the direction the new bus station now faces, it is served by routes 82 and 460, which cover that part of the suspended 260 route between North Finchley and Willesden, as that route was shortened.
T. occidentalis specimens found growing on cliff faces in southern Ontario are the oldest trees in Eastern North America and all of Canada, growing to ages in excess of 1, 653 years old.
The Conor Pass, which runs from Dingle on the southern end of the peninsula towards Brandon Bay and Castlegregory in the North, is the highest mountain pass in Ireland, a tight, precarious road, weaving its way around the sharp cliff faces and past the high corrie lakes.
The Presidential Plaza lies to the North and faces the Lake Road.
* At The Hague Centraal trains from Leiden, Utrecht and Rotterdam arrive at the same side, because The Hague is a coastal city and one end of the station faces the North Sea.
The main entrance of the building faces King Edward VII Avenue, and at the rear of the building is the Garden of Peace, with North Road behind it.
At its northeast extreme, the North Wessex Downs AONB faces across the Goring Gap to the Chilterns AONB on the other side of the River Thames.
Ceratopsia or Ceratopia ( or ; Greek: " horned faces ") is a group of herbivorous, beaked dinosaurs that thrived in what are now North America, Europe, and Asia, during the Cretaceous Period, although ancestral forms lived earlier, in the Jurassic.
Blocks 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6 faces East / West while Blocks 7, 8, 9 and 10 face North / South.
Regardless, the capture or killing of Song does not end the violence and unrest raging throughout North Korea, and the former nation faces a troubled and uncertain future.
Sharing a large border and ( for the majority ) a common language with the United States, Canada faces a difficult position in regard to North American culture, be it direct attempts at the Canadian market or the cultural re-uptake of US based North American culture in the globalized media arena.
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