𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℕ𝕠𝕣𝕥𝕙 ℙ𝕠𝕝𝕖 𝕚𝕤 𝕞𝕠𝕧𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕥𝕠𝕨𝕒𝕣𝕕𝕤 ℝ𝕦𝕤𝕤𝕚𝕒: 𝔼𝕩𝕡𝕖𝕣𝕥𝕤 𝕒𝕣𝕖 𝕓𝕒𝕗𝕗𝕝𝕖𝕕 𝕓𝕪 𝕞𝕖𝕒𝕟𝕕𝕖𝕣𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕞𝕒𝕘𝕟𝕖𝕥𝕚𝕔 𝕟𝕠𝕣𝕥𝕙 𝕥𝕙𝕒𝕥 𝕔𝕠𝕦𝕝𝕕 𝕡𝕝𝕒𝕪 𝕙𝕒𝕧𝕠𝕔 𝕨𝕚𝕥𝕙 𝕪𝕠𝕦𝕣 𝕤𝕞𝕒𝕣𝕥𝕡𝕙𝕠𝕟𝕖

It is one of the strangest shifts in the Earth’s magnetic field since Daleks plotted to extract the planet’s core in a 1964 Doctor Who adventure.

But this is not science fiction, it is science fact: Earth’s magnetic North Pole is drifting towards Russia, just as it has been since the early nineteenth century – but at a markedly slower rate.

Not to be confused with the geographic North Pole, which marks the world’s northernmost point, the magnetic North Pole is the direction towards which compass needles point.

‘The magnetic pole has been moving very slowly around Canada for many centuries since the 1500s,’ said Dr Ciarán Beggan of the British Geological Survey. 

‘In the past 20 years, it accelerated north towards Siberia, increasing speed every year until about five years ago, when it suddenly decelerated from 50 to 40km per year.

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