With peculiar traits like a temperature that reads an unearthly -40 degrees Celsius in the winters and rockets to 32 degrees Celsius in the summers, and a daylight period spanning over 6 months followed by a dark night of the same time length, the North Pole does not quite qualify as an inhabitable area for ordinary human beings. That said, the North Pole has been a fascinating topic of discussion for mankind for several years. The fact that there are actually two North Poles adds another dash of mystery about the place.
There is a magnetic North Pole, and it is based on the magnetic field of the Earth. This region is slowly and steadily drifting across the Canadian Arctic. And then, there is the geographic North Pole, the place located in the north of Greenland at a distance of about 724 kilometers. The precise location can be conveyed by a geography expert in the form of latitude, i.e. 90 degrees north. To actually get a fair view of the location of the North Pole, one has to use some imagination and view the assumed axis around which the Earth rotates. Obviously, there would be two pints where this axis would leave the surface of the Earth, and these two points will be diametrically opposite with one being at the southern tip and the other at the northern tip. It logically follows from here that the northern tip of the Earth is referred to as the North Pole. In other words, if one were standing on the precise geographical North Pole, there would be no meaning of the east and west direction and all the Earth surface would be below the person.
The location of the North Pole gives rise to another very interesting concept. The presence of a city or state on a particular longitude governs the time standards of the place. However, the North Pole is a unique case with all the longitudinal lines converging on it. To make up for the ambiguity regarding the standard time to be used, the North Pole uses Coordinated Universal Time as the local time. The North Pole is covered with a blanket of ice for a major part of the year. However, the impact of global warming is becoming observable in the form of the reduction of the thickness of the ice cover.