Incredible facts about the North 政治家 you (probably) didn't know - 含むing why 'time of day' has no meaning there

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The North 政治家, the 最北の point on Earth, doesn't 申し込む／申し出 much variation ーに関して／ーの点でs of looks.

But there is far more to this distant floating ice 集まり than 会合，会うs the 注目する，もくろむ.?

Here,?MailOnline Travel?has gathered 12 astonishing facts about this fascinating wilderness at the 最高の，を越す of the world.?

Read on for a 旅行 into one very 冷静な／正味の place...?

1. It has no time zone?

The North 政治家 has no time zone and no land - it is just 絶えず 転換ing ice floating on 最高の，を越す of the 北極の Ocean

The North 政治家 does not have an 割り当てるd time zone. There is no 永久の human presence at the North 政治家 and the sun rises (in March) and 始める，決めるs just once per year (in September) so 'time of day' has no meaning.?

北極の scientists and 研究員s tend to stay in the time zone of the country to which their 駅／配置する belongs.

2. The North 政治家 has no land

The North 政治家 has no land and is 完全に made up of 絶えず 転換ing ice floating on 最高の，を越す of the 北極の Ocean. And, によれば the 国家の 環境の 衛星 Data and （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状） Service, over the past four １０年間s, scientists have seen a 拒絶する／低下する in the 量 of thickness of 北極の sea ice during both the summer and winter months.

3.?It's not the coldest place on Earth?

にもかかわらず 存在 the most northern point on Earth, the South 政治家 remains 意味ありげに colder than the North 政治家. The 年次の 普通の／平均（する） 気温 at the North 政治家 is -40C in winter compared to the South 政治家, which hovers around -60C, によれば AE 探検隊／遠征隊s.

There are さまざまな 推論する／理由s for Antarctica's frigidness, 含むing that it has very 冷淡な 勝利，勝つd that 行為／法令／行動する as 障壁s to warm 空気／公表する and that it has snow and ice sitting on 最高の，を越す of 抱擁する mountains.

In some places the ice is up to three miles 厚い.?

The 北極の, on the other 手渡す, has areas of water, which help warm the 空気／公表する.?

4. You can visit the North 政治家?

You can 支払う／賃金 to visit the North 政治家, but be 警告するd, the voyage is not only chilly, but expensive. Pictured is an icebreaker ship making its way to the North 政治家?

Though inaccessible for most of the year, it is possible to visit the North 政治家. Travel companies 申し込む／申し出 巡航する 一括s to the 北極の from June and July when the 天候 is warmest.

急襲する 北極の?explains that travelling 経由で icebreaker ship from Murmansk, a ロシアの port, is the favourite 大勝する for most 訪問者s. The 小旅行する company 申し込む／申し出s a handful of icy voyages a year, during the summer months. However, 乗客s can 推定する／予想する to 支払う／賃金?£27,000 ($34,000) or more.?

?5. It is difficult to 研究

As the North 政治家 is made up of 絶えず drifting ice, it is difficult for scientists and explorers to stud y it, the 国家の Geographic Society 公式文書，認めるs. There is no 永久の 場所／位置 on which to 始める，決める up 器具／備品.

The most 一貫した 研究 on the North 政治家, the website says, comes from 乗組員を乗せた drifting 研究 駅／配置するs.

6. There is life at the North 政治家

The North 政治家 has a 栄えるing undersea ecosystem - and Polar 耐えるs (above) up 最高の，を越す

While the North 政治家's drifting ice makes it hard for animals to 生き残る, there are 北極の foxes and polar 耐えるs that live on the ice.

Though?国家の Geographic?公式文書，認めるs that the?undersea ecosystem is far more 変化させるd. The website says several 種類 of fish live at the North 政治家, 含むing the 北極の cod, which is abundant.?

Other?creatures that have been spotted at the North 政治家 含む 鯨s and （犯罪の）一味 調印（する）s, 同様に as a variety of migrating birds, 含むing the snow bunting and the 北極の tern.

7. There is a North 政治家 マラソン every year

走者s might get 冷淡な feet 参加するing in this race - the 'world's coolest マラソン'. Competitors experience 'extreme sub-無 気温s to finish 42.195km (26.2 miles) in one of the remotest parts of the 惑星,' the event's?website?says.

関係者s can 推定する／予想する to 支払う／賃金 an eyewatering??46,500 (£39,772/$50,248) 入り口 料金 to run the 北極の ice floes in next year's race. But it does 含む travel, your メダル - and an open 妨げる／法廷，弁護士業!

8. It's not home to Santa Claus

Rovaniemi (pictured) is 現実に the '公式の／役人 hometown of Santa Claus', not the North 政治家?

Although Santa's magical workshop is 広範囲にわたって said to be in the North 政治家, it 現実に lies in Finland. Just don't tell the little ones.

You can visit the '公式の／役人 hometown of Santa Claus' any day of the year in the 雪の降る，雪の多い town of Rovaniemi.?

9. Two explorers lay （人命などを）奪う，主張する to 存在 the first to reach the North 政治家?

The 発見 of the North 政治家 is 法外なd in 論争, as two explorers （人命などを）奪う，主張する to have 設立する it first.?

北極の explorers?Frederick Cook and Robert Peary both returned from North 政治家 探検隊／遠征隊s in 1909 - and both made separate （人命などを）奪う，主張するs that they had been the first to reach the world's most northern point.

Cook （人命などを）奪う，主張するd he had discovered the North 政治家 in 1908, a year earlier than Peary （人命などを）奪う，主張するd to have visited. Time.com 公式文書，認めるs that Peary 公然と （刑事）被告 Cook of lying, 誘発するing a スキャンダル 前例のない in explorer history.?

Who reached the North 政治家 first is still ひどく 審議d to this day, but によれば a 国家の 古記録s?blog 地位，任命する, the first 立証するd attainment of?the North 政治家 was in 1926 by Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen - who was also the first person to reach the South 政治家. He flew over it on an airship.?

10. The North 政治家 is not owned by any country?

Under international 法律, the North 政治家 and the 北極の Ocean in its 周辺 are not owned by any country - this is because the North 政治家 isn't land, and so is not a country or 領土 in its own 権利.?

(Though the ロシアのs 試みる／企てるd to 火刑／賭ける some sort of （人命などを）奪う，主張する in 2007 when they 工場／植物d a titanium ロシアの 旗 on the 海底 4,000m/13,120ft beneath the North 政治家 using submersibles.)

Instead, its 国境ing countries get （人命などを）奪う，主張するs on 資源s 200 航海の miles from their coast under a 条約 called the 国際連合 条約 on the 法律 of the Sea.

11.?The closest town is Longyearbyen

Longyearbyen is the closest town to the North 政治家 - just 2,400 people reside in the tiny 解決／入植地 and the 気候 is '予測できない'

Longyearbyen is the nearest town to the North 政治家, 1,316km (817 miles) away, which is 位置を示すd in the Norwegian 群島 of Svalbard, between 本土／大陸 Norway and the North 政治家.

The 2,400 居住（者）s who live in the tiny 解決／入植地 are used to extremes. によれば its website the 気候 is '厳しい' and '予測できない' - and 居住（者）s live in 完全にする 不明瞭 for most of the year.?

It has just one grocery 蓄える／店 and a university of 300 students, all of whom を受ける 義務的な firearm training to 保護する themselves from wandering polar 耐えるs in the area.?

12. At the North 政治家, every direction is south?

If you stand at the North 政治家, you are at the 最北の point on Earth. It doesn't 事柄 which way you look - every direction is south.?