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I know youre joking, but fun fact: the north pole (as a defined point on top of ice) is never the same from second to second because there is no landmass like Antarctica and the south pole.

So hypothetically even if they were stuck there they would have drifted away from the geographical north pole point within a few minutes.

In history this led to a lot of debate about people attempting to reach the north pole, because it was virtually impossible to truly verify that you made it to the actual geographic north pole before advances in technology. Depending on ice flow one step forward might have still been 3 steps back. Plus, the magnetic north pole is not aligned with the geographic north pole, so compasses dont even point you true north once you get close enough to the pole

These guys were some of the first to surely reach it, because they went by the seafloor and then went up at the geographic north pole on the seafloor. Prior to that a lot of people, at least those who managed to survive, just said “close enough” even if they might have been miles away.

A lot of early polar explorers also were convinced that the North Pole was a beautiful warm place without ice and a definite landmass, which they obviously never found. Many of them died thinking that eventually they would get past the ice and find something completely different and easy to survive