Story: Magnetic field
The positions of magnetic north and south change as time passes, and scientists regularly record them. When the magnetic south pole was first located in 1909 it lay on the Antarctic continent, but it has been travelling 10–15 kilometres each year and by 2000 lay in the Southern Ocean.
Base map: NASA Visible Earth
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