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Magnetic North is the north that compasses point to. True North is the actual direction to the north pole. Magnetic North points to a "magnetic field" that if I remember right, is in northern Canada.
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Magnetic north is the aggregate direction that metallic particles in the earth's crust have frozen into shortly after emerging from mid-Oceanic ridges. The problem is, once frozen, the crust is still prone to plate tectonics and continental drift, which over time have shifted its composite orientation from true north. "True" north is the northern point through which the axis intersects the Earth.
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Because magnetics like the one in a compass are attracted to their opposites, the north end of the magnetic is actually pointing south (normally we call it the north pole because that is what end of the magnetic is pointing)
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If you were to impale the earth on a stick, top to bottom, the stick would emerge at true north. The magnetic field exits the earth near the south pole and re-enters the earth near the north pole...this is magnetic north. It tends to move as the field slowly changes.
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