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What are the geographical poles?

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Anonymous

9y ago
Updated: 8/21/2019

Your answer depends on what you're describing. Generally, in geography, the word pole indicates an extreme: the pole of inaccessibility, for example.

Geographically, the North Pole and the South Pole mark positions on Earth that are farthest away from the Equator. Each is expressed in degrees of latitude -- 90 -- and followed by the notation that indicates on which side of the Equator you can find the pole -- N or S.

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