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Where is Earth’s magnetic south pole located? What about the magnetic north pole? What does this say about how a compass needle will react to the poles?
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Where is Earth’s magnetic south pole located? What about the magnetic north pole? What does this say about how a compass needle will react to the poles?

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Currently, the magnetic south pole lies about ten degrees distant from the geographic north pole, and sits in the Arctic Ocean north of Alaska. The north end on a compass therefore currently points roughly towards Alaska and not exactly towards geographic north.

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