Geographical pole

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A geographical pole is a single, fixed, point on a spinning body or planet, at 90 degrees from the equator, based on the axis around which a body spins. For the purposes of cartography, it provides an agreed upon absolute point of measurement.

See: North Pole, South Pole, polar region.

References

• Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "Geographical_pole" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographical_pole, used under the GNU Free Documentation License