Guy Stagg

1 month ago | the-tls.co.uk | Mark Nayler |Norma Clarke |Guy Stagg |Nat Segnit

The North Pole is the point at the top of our planet where the Earth’s axis of rotation meets the surface. It is not a place. Unlike the South Pole, it is located at the centre of a frozen ocean, the ice of which is constantly moving. It has no longitude because all lines converge there. It has no time zone, so you can choose the local hour. The North Pole, writes the Norwegian explorer Erling Kagge, “is like an abstract painting, freed from all form”.