# North and South Geographic Poles

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 31, 2002, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-and-south-geographic-poles/121727 "2002-07-31T17:39:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![AV8R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/898d66/32.png) [@AV8R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AV8R)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2002, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-and-south-geographic-poles/121727/1 "2002-07-31T17:39:52Z")

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When explorers first went to the North (and South) geographic pole of the earth, how did they know when they had reached the exact point? And how did they prove to others that they had done it?

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**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2002, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-and-south-geographic-poles/121727/2 "2002-07-31T19:17:53Z")

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They measured the position of the sun.  
[Examining the Peary Evidence](http://www.dougdavies.com/PearyEvidence.htm)  
[Evidence Proves Henson & Peary reached Pole](http://www.matthewhenson.com/northpoleproof.htm)