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PROF. CARL STORMER has directed attention to a prevalent confusion between the north magnetic pole and the point on the earth where the magnetic axis meets the surface. Thus, in the supplement to NATURE of May 16, 1936, it is stated on p. 813 that “It is the distance from the magnetic axis of the earth that counts, and that axis meets the surface of the earth at the north magnetic pole, which is in the island of Boothia in Canada”; this should read as follows: “It is the distance from the magnetic axis of the earth that counts and that axis meets the surface of the earth about midway between the north magnetic pole and the north pole”. This point is near Northwestern Greenland, and it might be named the north axial pole. The zone or belt of greatest auroral display has this point for centre on the earth.
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Northern Lights. Nature 138, 159 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138159d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/138159d0