asymmetries in the earth and variations in its magnetic field mean that the line on which they lie does not pass through Earth's center.

Owing to the motion of fluid in the Earth's outer core, the magnetic field is constantly moving, in what is called geomagnetic secular variation. This leads to short-term changes in the magnetic and geomagnetic poles.

Although the geomagnetic poles average out local variations in the magnetic field, they

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