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North Pole has no land beneath the ice—just sea. Technically, Santa lives on a very fancy raft.

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The North Pole sits on floating sea ice over the Arctic Ocean, not on a continent. Ice thickness changes seasonally, and the underlying ocean is several kilometers deep in places.

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