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It is the dreamland of most children in European countries and the Americas, and the secret home of the mythical Santa Claus, his committed better half Mrs. Claus, the reindeer, and the countless elves who make Christmas toys every year. In many ways, the North Pole is the first physical location many kids learn, only if because children older than three can manage to notify any interested adult that Santa Claus lives there. The truth is, of course, the North Pole became as elusive for most daring explorers as jolly old Santa has been for children who hang on up during the night by the chimney. The biggest problem, of course, is the North Pole's unforgiving location, definately not sunshine or any sort of natural warmness. Another problem, one that would only became evident in the 20th Hundred years, was that it is located not on any piece of stable land however in the middle of the Arctic Sea, usually included in ever shifting ice floes. Finally, without modern technical advancements, it was almost impossible to share when you have actually come to the planet's northernmost place. This has triggered more than one discussion about who actually made it and who did not; as historian E. Myles Standish input it, "Anyone who is acquainted with the facts and has any amount of reasonable reasoning cannot avoid the final outcome that neither Cook, nor Peary, nor Byrd come to the North Pole; and they all understood it." Those sentiments were echoed by Canadian explorer Richard Weber, who asserted, "We deducted that Peary never got anywhere close to the Pole. Within the ice, everything appears the same. I'm worried we'd have been lost with out a global placement system."
