The North Pole has no land and is just a sheet of ice floating on the ocean.

The North Pole is located at the northernmost point of Earth in the Arctic Ocean. There is no solid ground beneath the ice. In 2007, a Russian expedition used submersibles to reach the ocean floor directly under the pole. They measured the depth at 4,261 meters and placed a titanium flag on the seabed.The ice at the North Pole is made of frozen seawater. It is not a single solid piece but a collection of large floating chunks called floes. These floes constantly move because of wind and ocean currents. One major current is the Transpolar Drift Stream, which pushes ice toward the Atlantic Ocean.Because the ice moves, it is impossible to build permanent structures at the North Pole. Any marker placed there will eventually drift away from the actual geographic pole. The ice also changes with the seasons. It grows thicker and spreads out during the dark winter months and shrinks during the sunny summer months.The water under the ice stays liquid at about -1.8 degrees Celsius. Salt in the ocean water lowers its freezing point, keeping it from turning into solid ice. Since 1979, satellites have tracked the size of this ice. Data shows the ice cover is shrinking by about 12.6% every ten years due to rising global temperatures.