Poles Poles The North Pole is the northernmost point on any planet. There are various ways of defining a planet's North Pole. Earth's North Pole, however it is defined, lies in the Arctic Ocean. ...more on Wikipedia about "North Pole"
A polar ice cap is a high- latitude region of a planet or moon that is covered in ice. This term is somewhat of a misnomer since an ice cap is less than 50,000 km² and is always over land. Polar ice caps do not have size, composition or geologic requirements of being over land, but they must be centered in the polar region. ...more on Wikipedia about "Polar ice cap"
Earth's polar regions are the areas of the globe surrounding the poles, north of the Arctic circle, or south of the Antarctic Circle. They are characterised by the polar climate, extremely cold temperatures, heavy glaciation, and extreme variations in daylight hours, with 24 hour daylight in summer (the midnight sun), and permanent darkness at mid- winter. The North Pole and South Pole being the centres, these regions are dominated by the polar ice caps, resting respectively on ocean and the continent of Antarctica. ...more on Wikipedia about "Polar region"
The Poles of Cold are the places in the Northern and Southern hemispheres where the lowest air temperature was recorded. ...more on Wikipedia about "Pole of Cold"
The pole of inaccessibility marks a location that is the most challenging to reach owing to its remoteness from geographical features which could provide access. The term is a geographic construct, not an actual physical phenomenon, and is of interest mostly to explorers and conspiracy theorists. ...more on Wikipedia about "Pole of inaccessibility"
The South Pole is the southernmost point on the Earth, as defined in any of several ways. ...more on Wikipedia about "South Pole"
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