Why is the earths magnetic north pole really a magnetic south pole?
All of this really does make sense, but confusion reigns because the same phrase, “north pole” is used to represent more than one idea. “North pole” can mean geographic north, which lies on the axis on which the earth spins, it refer to the place in the northern hemisphere from which the earth’s lines of magnetic flux emerge, or it can refer to the magnetic polarity of a magnet.
