Since the earth is shaped like a ball, are people located at the south pole standing upside-down?
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up, down, and upside down are relative.  You consider up to be away from the pull of gravity (away from the center of the earth), and down to be the opposite.  No, they are not "upside down", but their head is pointed in the opposite direction of yours (assuming you are standing normally, they are too, and you are on opposite sides of the world).
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Bears North Pole\nPenguins South Pole
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Gravity is what does it, and also standing on the outside surface of the Earth. In this way, the gravity of the Earth pulls all people on the outside of the planet inwards. So if we are standing on our feet, then the feet point inwards. And the gravity which also exists from all the other big lumps in the universe doesn't have anywhere near enough intensity here to pull people in other directions (although the moon and sun cause good movements upon water in tide cycles).
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The Earth is tilted at an angle of about twenty three and a half degrees.  This is the reason why North and Magnetic poles are not at the same place.  \n\nAnyway, in the Northern winter, the North Pole is angled away from the Sun, with the South Pole therefore being angled towards the Sun.  The result is 24 hours night in the north, 24 hours day light in the south.  This is the southern summer.\nNow remember that the Earth maintains this angle throughout its orbit.\nSix months later, the Earth is on the other side of its orbit around the Sun.  Still maintaining the same tilt, now the North Pole is receiving 24 hour day light, and the South Pole is in darkness.  Northern summer, southern winter.\n\nThe Arctic and Antarctic circles mark the limit of this 24 hour daylight, and the Tropic of Cancer (North) and the Tropic of Capricorn (South) mark the limits of the maximum travel of the Sun at it appears in the northern and southern skies.\n\nAt the Spring and Autumn exquinox, the Earth is such that the Poles are receiving equal amounts of sunlight.  Equinox means "equal night".  \n\nI down know any particular websites but try the NOAA and BBC weather sites.\n\nADDITION: To Glenn Blaylock.  Thank you very much for the correction.  I'll read up on my error.
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The earth is tilted at approximately a 12 degree angle, therefore the geographic poles are literally at the top but the magnetic poles are 12 degrees tilted.
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One place it is not located at is the "magnetic North pole" which is where a magnetic compass points to. The compass reading could be as much as 15 degrees different from the direction to the "true" North pole you seem to be referring to depending on where in the US or world you are. It would seem logical that the "true" North pole is located where all the lines of longitude come together at the top of a globe. The lines of latitude are parallel to the earth's equator. The earth's axis that passes through the true South to true North poles is known to "precess" slowly over about a 25,000 year period, I believe, meaning that our planet's axis is slowly wobbling over that period of time as the earth rotates around it.
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This question has been adequately answered, but it is a trick question in that every direction at the north pole is south (you can't walk east, west, or north of the north pole), and every direction at the south pole is north. You could, however take one step south, turn and walk east, but you would have to walk in a little circle to maintain your easterly direction. Weird, huh?
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Earth rotates. Sun on one side.
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Antarctic.\nthe earth spins around the sun in an ellipse when the artic has its coldest point the earth is closer to the sun in comparison to when the antartic is the coldest
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If your in the south pole, everything is going to be north of you so the equator is north of the south pole.
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The pole in the north direction of earth is the south magnetic pole of earth's magnet.\n\nThe position of magnetic pole is changing but not the pole itself. If the pole cahnges then the magnetic needle in the compass will deflect in the opposite direction.
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"The definition of Earth's magnetic poles depends on what is being defined. The "magnetic north/south pole" is the measured location of the vertical field lines. This is different from the "Geomagnetic north/south pole", which is the location where the best fitting dipole model pierces the surface of the Earth. While magnetic poles are not necessarily 180 degrees opposite from one another, Geomagnetic poles are exactly 180 degrees opposite from one another.\n\nThe magnetic south pole in 1990 was at 64.9 deg S 138.9deg E\n\nThe geomagnetic south pole in 1990 was 79.2 deg S 180.9 deg E "*\n\nDistance between Magnetic South Pole and Geographic South Pole (1990):    1456.8868 Statute Miles **\n\nDistance between Geomagnetic South Pole and Geographic South Pole (1990):   745.7051 Statute Miles **
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Not quite. It's shaped like a pear. We call it a Geoid.
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The direction of the north magnetic pole on the earth changes slowly over time. In addition, occasionally, the north and south poles reverse with the pole in the northern hemisphere becoming a south magnetic pole and vice versa. This can be recorded in magnetic rocks and even has utility as a dating method. According to our understanding right now, we are in the middle of such a switch. This is why the strength of the magnetic filed is decreasing. Anyway, a shift is when one of these switches happens.
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The earth is not a perfect sphere. It's slightly 'wider' than it is tall, so you could measure the circumference at the equator (24,901.55 miles or 40,075.16 kilometers). If you go through the south and north poles (24,859.82 miles or 40,008 km)
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Yes, everything's upside down from down under!\n\nIf you're facing south looking at an early crescent setting in the northern hemisphere, the Moon is on your right, and the Sun is further to the right (west), so the right (west) side of the Moon is illuminated.  From the southern hemisphere, you're facing north, and west is on your left.  The western side of the Moon is still illuminated, but now you see it on the left. The Moon, of course, appears upside down.
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Antarctica is the southern most point on the earth, we commonly refer the it as the South Pole