From this spot if I stare straight ahead at the old timey map on my bedroom wall I see 'Wilkes Land'. I stare until it blurs into 'Wilken Land' and I imagine myself there, in a parka in Antarctica gazing off accross the Durville Sea. I have befriended the polar bears because we move the same way...very slowly. They are warm and furry, and I can'
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"No reports have put polar bears exactly on the North Pole itself, but ca. 100 miles to the south, at 88°N. Thus, there is no doubt that there are polar bears in the vicinity of the North Pole, though they are probably not abundant because the ocean there is less biologically productive than it is over the continental shelf, at the edges of the polar basin and associated islands"
-Polar Bear FAQ fun page
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