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cartographical$509851$ - translation to ελληνικό

POINT OF INTERSECTION OF A CELESTIAL BODY’S SURFACE AND ITS ROTATIONAL AXIS
Geographic pole; Cartographical pole; Cartographic pole; Geographic poles

cartographical      
adj. χαρτογραφικός

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cartography
Cartography is the art or activity of drawing maps and geographical charts.
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Geographical pole

A geographical pole or geographic pole is either of the two points on Earth where its axis of rotation intersects its surface. The North Pole lies in the Arctic Ocean while the South Pole is in Antarctica. North and South poles are also defined for other planets or satellites in the Solar System, with a North pole being on the same side of the invariable plane as Earth's North pole.

Relative to Earth's surface, the geographic poles move by a few metres over periods of a few years. This is a combination of Chandler wobble, a free oscillation with a period of about 433 days; an annual motion responding to seasonal movements of air and water masses; and an irregular drift towards the 80th west meridian. As cartography requires exact and unchanging coordinates, the averaged locations of geographical poles are taken as fixed cartographic poles and become the points where the body's great circles of longitude intersect.