So the North pole was where what would be now near Anchorage?
My first impression of this image is it’s makeshift flat earth map. The North Pole should be roughly in the center. One thing I do know for certain in real life is that the Magnetic North Pole is constantly changing its position a bit.
Sort of. It’s really quite fixed except every 6k years it excursions, amd every 12kthe poles flip. That process started again a few hundred years ago, expect a full flip within 30. It’s not an occurrence that will be taken lightly, it’s likely a life ending event for 70% of all life on earth.
The magnetic pole does wander, there is a great book titled "The Path of the Pole" that provides scientific evidence supporting this. Check it out!
You're also correct that the magnetic poles can swap, this is sure to cause massive problems, not only with tech, but in nature as migratory birds and other animals depend on this to find their way.
Lastly, and most concerning in my opinion is that Earth's crust "floats" on a liquid mantle, like an orange who's skin has separated from the fruit. If too much material builds up on one area its possible the skin could wobble as it's out of balance, then massively shift the heavy portion to the equator.
From Wikipedia: Charles Hapgood is now perhaps the best remembered early proponent. In his books The Earth's Shifting Crust (1958) (which includes a foreword by Albert Einstein)[12][13] and Path of the Pole (1970), Hapgood speculated that accumulated polar ice mass destabilizes Earth's rotation, causing crustal displacement but not disturbing Earth's axial orientation.
This is demonstrably false. All life on earth doesn't die off every 12k years. This is so ludicrous, you should really reconsider the information that you read.
There have been many polar shifts, it ain't no big deal.
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