if the north pole is floating ice, why doesnt it float away?

Answer 1

It is not the specific ice that is important. Imagine a small amount of ice breaks off and drifts to lower latitudes. Higher temperatures cause it to melt. The gap of sea water the ice has left in the Northpole is the same temperature as the ice that drifted away.. which must be below freezing, since there was ice there before.
Hence, the water in that gap freezes again and while some of the north pole has indeed drifted away, it has been replaced, so overall the Northpole can't go anywhere -- ice melts at lower latitudes because of increasing temperature, and water freezes at higher latitudes due to lower temperature. So ice remains at the higher latitudes.

Answer 2

It's not "floating ice". The North Pole is more of a landmass entirely frozen, thus it looks like a giant piece of ice. Icebergs are the floating ice. We might also be wondering why they don't float away - that's because icebergs are too heavy to be carried away by the ocean currents.

Answer 3

Pieces of it do break off and drift (icebergs), but they are constantly replaced by new ice. In order for the whole ice pack to float away, it would need (a) a humongous current, (b) clearance from the pack ice and landforms around it, (c) warmer weather at the pole to loosen it up.

Answer 4

Who ever said it doesn't float away? It happens all the time. Except any pieces that float away melt before they hit stuff. Otherwise you'd have giant icebergs attacking New York. =P

Answer 5

the north pole is a point, not ice, but the ice doesn't "float away" because it catches up on islands and penisulas in the artic circle.

Answer 6

Where would you have it float to? It bumps against continents all around. Look at a globe.