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geographic north

noun

  1. another name for true north
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


geographic north

  1. The direction from any point on Earth toward the North Pole.
  2. Also called true north
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Example Sentences

That has caused the geographic North Pole to shift at a speed of 4.36 centimetres per year, researchers have calculated.

Not the actual geographic North Pole, but a town near Fairbanks that takes the Christmas spirit seriously year-round.

The large ice floe comprising the field was as close as possible to the geographic North Pole.

Boston College is offering something similar, called “True North” — a reference to the geographic North Pole, rather than the magnetic pole of a compass — during orientation this summer, for the first time, to new students and their parents.

Sue Flood captured a geographic North Pole signpost protruding from submerged sea ice.

From BBC

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