Why the earth s megnetic north pole is called north and not south where is actually?
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Because, of the compass needle is a magnet and the arrow (red color usually) is the north pole of this magnet can t be attracted from the north pole of the earth but from the south pole of the earth. As it is called in physics “Opposites Attract”!
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Well…obviously the Earth’s magnetic pole that lies near the physical “north pole” is called the north magnetic pole because it is in the North.
So: what is the reason for calling a magnetic pole that (like on a compass needle) points to the north magnetic pole “north”? Because it points toward the north, of course.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnet#Pol…
So: the north magnetic pole is
– magnetically speaking a south pole
– geographically speaking THE north magnetic pole