The magnetic north pole is wandering about 34 miles (55 kilometers) a year. It crossed the international date line in 2017, and is leaving the Canadian Arctic on its way to Siberia.

British explorer Sir James Clark Ross discovered the magnetic north pole in 1831 in northern Canada, approximately 1,000 miles (1,609 kilometers) south of the true North Pole.

While USA Today says it did drop back down to 22 miles per year around 2019, it seems like the movement has picked up once again, with the magnetic North Pole ending up in Russia sometime around 2040.

The south magnetic pole is also moving, though at a much slower rate (10-15km a year). This rapid wandering of the north magnetic pole has caused some problems for scientists and navigators alike.

The magnetic north pole has wandered away from the Canadian Arctic (solid blue line) and toward Siberia for about the past century, but it has considerably sped up over the past 20 years.

Last year, scientists announced Earth's magnetic north pole was moving toward Siberia at an unusually fast rate and they could not explain why. It had moved so far, so quickly, there had to be an ...

The movement of the North Pole was accelerating unpredictably, and the 2015 version of the World Magnetic Model couldn't keep up. Navigation tools that rely on magnetic fields for orientation were ...