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... The end of the compass needle marked N (for north) is in fact, just
what it claims to be; the north pole of a small magnet. It points to the
Earth's magnetic SOUTH. Which lies in the geographic region of northern
Canada. The correct convention for naming poles is to call the end which
would point in the geographic north direction, the north pole.