which way is north?

Question

If your standing directly on the north pole. Which way is north.

Answer 1

Up.

Answer 2

North means, "in the direction of the North pole," so from your perspective, there is no North. In fact, there's no East or West either, since those are lateral directions and you can't move laterally. So there's only South. North isn't an absolute, it's relative to your position on the planet (for example, there's no North in outer space).

Answer 3

Are you talking Geographic North or Magnetic North ?

If you're on the geographic north pole and you want to know where magnetic north is then the answer is South.

Answer 4

north is directional... where you are facing is the north.. if you want to know where north pole is, although you are already standing on it, then you've become crazy... but in addition to that, north is actually the direction where the COMPASS is pointing to..

Answer 5

Down

Answer 6

You are gimbal locked.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimbal_lock

Also note that the north pole and south pole change places every 780,000 years or so
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomagnetic_reversal

Answer 7

You would have already got there, therefore it just is.
Do you ask yourself which way is the Eiffel Tower whilst standing on it?

Answer 8

When the sun shines (sunrise) on your right side, its the direction you're facing at.

Answer 9

the earth is pretty much a big magnet and so is a compass so opposites attract.lol

Answer 10

the opposite of south

Answer 11

It depends on possition, because it can be any way.