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By BBC
An Australian
scientist has become the first person to reach the South
magnetic pole, Radio Australia reported.
Geoscientist
Charles Barton, aboard the expedition vessel Sir Hubert
Wilkins, located the pole at 64 degrees south, 138 degrees
east in the Southern Ocean and came within 1.6 km of its
location.
The
measurement is the closest ever approach to either of the
magnetic poles. Unlike the geographic poles, which are fixed,
the magnetic poles move under the influence of terrestrial
and atmospheric conditions, making attempts to find its
exact location difficult, the radio said.
Dr Barton
also holds the distinction of having been the person to
come closest to the North magnetic pole, within about 10
kilometres in 1994, the radio recalled.
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