Great Find that Sat Image
You can see directly the loc where people stumble into Greenland when exploring the Pole and how easy it is to do...
Ellesmere Island is the general location Of Where TRUE Magnetic North is usually found
Thats a satellite shot of Ellesmere
If you want to find the hole, this is the best place to start looking
Although I would still say Greenland slightly to the East is the more likely spot given accessibility, snow cover, potential for confusion
Those who have seen the hole down, probably one of the largest cave entrances in the world
Have wandered inadvertently off the course of the actual North Pole
Magnetic North Declination is accounted for on most real compasses nowadays, but there is no end to the magnetic anomalies in the area given where you
are...
Problem with the Entrance is...
and as a serious spelunker, I have... spent much time on the issue
Glaciation probably closes it 99% of the time...
i.e once in a while, the glacier fractures and tumbles down into the crevice and someone flying over, actually spots the hole, which from descriptions
is quite large...
and it's already hard to spot due to snow blindness anyway even when it's open... snow slopes down into the Hole
as described
when a glacier cracks and tilts down, you can walk right into it and not realize your are even going in
Hence the whole Inner Earth feeling...
But most of the time glaciation caps it almost entirely and you simply can fly right over the entrance and never see it
Thats why here and at the south pole, people spot it and then return or someone else goes
and it seems to have vanished
Over the few months between expeditions it fills with snow, glacier keeps moving and it goes bye, bye again
In any event, this region right here is your target, Magnetic north Pole
Glaciers that swallow mountains whole
Nice shot of a Hole carved right into a mountain
and Greenland omg...
anything could be in that ground carved into that by the massive power of that ice...
Look at that, easy to see how you can stumble off the north pole and never know it...
Look at this!
Easy to see how fast that Hole gets covered and what kind of amazing caves and subterranean areas have been carved, I couldn't imagine a better
location to explore, but also...very dangerous, it's all in motion
Water that cuts down into the Earth like Butter every year
[edit on 1-11-2008 by mopusvindictus]
[edit on 1-11-2008 by mopusvindictus]