Show the north pole and five IV e others earth has six in three groups of twins agton fi N effington D 0 the earth lias has at least six well known poles in hi three groups of twins only one of which tile shenandoah or the los angeles it if they blabe banz e an air trail across tile the arctic will probably probable cross the north pole the others of the polar family are the poles of cold the south pole and the north and south magnetic poles says a bulletin from the washington headquarters of the national geographic society the most talked of member of the family Is tile the north pole at the top of the earth where latitude becomes 90 degrees and the lie meridians ot of longitude converge it has received only one visit in all time rear admiral robert E bleary villi vilh his retinue of eskimo attendants spent ft a few hours in its frigid presence ind took notes on its refrigerating system scientists tell us os that this refrigerating plant installed and operated solely by nature never falls to register below the freezing point of fresh water even during july and that its mean temperature in winter inter Is about that of some of the Alon montana tana cold snaps r ren ien old sol ahen he returns to the north has been unsuccessful in breaking up the plant though at the summer solstice he be pours out larger amounts or of his rays at any other part of the hie earths surface except at the alie corresponding point in the south if lie have to keep moving he soon would make the arctic lee ice cap the hottest region on the earths surface but lie only succeeds in melting some ot of the surface lee ice in honor or defiance of his visit daylight lasts fur for six eix months but humidity fuld ity cloudiness and precipitation mar the beauty of ills rays on the crystals of tile the snow palace when lie he leaves and night sets in fantastic lighting effects blitch shame those of new Yorks Great white way are brought into play the northern part of the sky Is illuminated by an arch of whitish greenish greeni sli or rosy light from which streamers of white or colored light go trailing across the heavens tills this effect Is called the aurora borealis bore alls though the north pole can never leave its kingdom and has been rigidly bound down by nature it does mannee manage to shift about in a circle 50 feet in diameter dl ameter this restlessness causes W ci responding variability in terrestrial latitudes one caller in a million years when admiral peary stood on the to top p point of the earth lie he was actually being turned around only once in 24 hours with the rotation of the earth As be simply lingered for a few hours he made only a small part of a revolution a pace which Is not conducive to la dizziness the other monarch of the worlds ice lands Is the south pule pole tin of the north pole though there Is all the distance in the world between them hem la in the main the surroundings fire duplicated tile of hind and water in their respective spheres of influence Is somewhat different the southern a land zone surrounded by a wide belt of open sea siad and the northern a bater body surrounded by continental land inus musses ses the southern monarch likes his summers colder in fact so go cold are the lie summers bummers and so regular the winds that there Is practically no plum plant life of even tile the most insignificant kind tin in the antarctic continent lie he Is also less ICES exclusive than his brother brot lier of the lie north having received two wo earthly travelers tra elers within his portals capt roald amundsen and capt robert kobert F scott but from the latter lie exalted a death penalty the north and south magne magnette tle poles located more thau than a thousand miles from the true north and south poles toward louard hudson buy bay oni and new zealand are the elusive alii ilac members of the polar family the north magnetic gasn alc tlc pole makes the compass needle stand up straight on its point and the south magnetic pole makes it stanl on kg its foot and they both play piny tricks with will all sorts of 0 metal instruments syilva by aatu ns or demagnetising demagnetizing their parts part why compass swerves from north when john jones tr nals through northern wisconsin or woods solely with the old aid of his compass lie he cannot go directly north unless lie he travels just a little west ot of tile the direction in which his bis compass points because of its affinity tor for we the north korth magn magnetic otle pole the explanation ot of the magnetic poles Is that the earth itself Is a magnet made so probably by the electric currents passing around it in an all east west direction the poles of cold are the ishmaels Ishm aels and eagars of the polar family outcasts both erratic and disagreeable they reside in tile the places where the cold Is most intense usually in the interior of a continent though the north pole h lias the coldest mean annual temperature there Is a desert of lee ice in the interior of greenland which Is tile the coldest part of the northern hemisphere in july in northeastern siberia on the fringe of the arctic circle Is colder in january than the north pole itself it even boasts a record of 04 degrees fahrenheit below zero but its mean temperature pera ture for january Is about minus CO 60 degrees fahrenheit during february port fort conger grinnell land on ellesmere island in the arctic claims tile the honor with a mean temper temperature tor for february of about minus 40 degrees fahrenheit |