Talk:Old Pulteney Row To The Pole

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First sentence of the article is misleading.

The destination of the expedition is not any existing pole. In 2005 the position of the pole was measured in a completely different place and current (2011) north magnetic pole estimated position is about 458 miles away from the expedition destination.

62.24.73.63 (talk) 17:39, 26 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

What pole?

They didn't row to any pole. Where they stopped was where the *magnetic* north pole was 15 years ago. That location is on an island, so they couldn't actually row right to that point anyway. The current location of the magnetic north pole is 458 miles NNW (heading 141.13 degrees) of the 1996 location. The physical north pole, on the axis Earth rotates around, is 789.79 miles away. (heading 16.11 degrees). Bizzybody (talk) 08:20, 2 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Not just rowing !!!

They had to pull their boat as well. Log entry from the 28th of Aug 2011: After approx 2 hours of wading, whacking and winding our way through and over the ice, we finally made it to the bigger lead.

YouTube recording from that day: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=jUPhWVBUyoI#! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.255.182.36 (talk) 13:15, 21 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]