What country owns the north pole?

Question

What about the south pole?

Answer 1

Neither the North Pole or South Pole are owned by a single country. However, some countries do have either a land mass closs to it, but it is at least a thousand miles away.

The South Pole is not owned by any one single nation according to the Antarctic Treaty. However, a number of countries have a scientific research station located on it on the continent of Antarctica. Humans first explored the continent during the early Twentieth Century.

The North Pole is made up of ice with no land mass underneath it. The earliest attempts at an expedition to it date back to the Nineteenth Century with the first explorer reaching it in the Twentieth Century. Submarines have actually crossed under it during the 1950s. Canada did try to claim it in 1925 bassed on the Sector Principle and followed by Russia making its claim in 2001. However, Russia's claim has been contested by the United States, Norway, Denmark, and Canada. However, now, it is considered international territorial.

Answer 2

No-one owns either the north or south poles - they are international territories.

However, the south pole has many research centres from different countries in the world.

Answer 3

The North Pole is an imaginary point at the earth's northern axis where lines of longitude converge. The Magnetic North Pole is a location to where compasses point from virtually every place on the planet, which acts somewhat like a giant magnet. The closest town to the Magnetic North Pole is Resolute, a small town in Canada.

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Answer 5

Basically, both are "owned" or "claimed" by different countries...


North Pole:
In 1925, based upon the Sector Principle, Canada became the first country to extend its boundaries northward to the North Pole, at least on paper, between 60°W and 141°W longitude, a claim that is not universally recognized (there is in fact 770 km of ocean between the Pole and Canada's northernmost land point). In addition, Canada claims the water between its Arctic Islands as internal waters. Denmark (Greenland), Russia and Norway have made similar claims.

Otherwise, until 1999, the North Pole and Arctic Ocean had been generally considered international territory. However, as the polar ice has begun to recede at a rate higher than expected (see global warming), several countries have made moves to claim, or to enforce pre-existing claims to, the waters or seabed at the Pole. Russia made its first claim in 2001, claiming Lomonosov Ridge, an underwater mountain ridge underneath the Pole, as a natural extension of Siberia. This claim was contested by Norway, Canada, the United States and Denmark in 2004. The Danish autonomous province of Greenland has the nearest coastline to the North Pole, and Denmark argues that the Lomonosov Ridge is in fact an extension of Greenland.

South Pole: Currently there are seven claimant nations who maintain a territorial claim on eight territories in Antarctica. These countries have tended to site their scientific observation and study facilities in Antarctica within their claimed territory.

Answer 6

Santa owns the North Pole. He gave the South Pole to my friend Frank!

Answer 7

none it on ice