The magnetic pole was over Canada until relatively recently though (20 years ago it was) so that makes it much closer to Minnesota than to Normandy. It's gettin

The magnetic pole was over Canada until relatively recently though (20 years ago it was) so that makes it much closer to Minnesota than to Normandy. It's getting closer these days though, moving towards Russia. I also witnessed austral auroras on Kerguelen island for example, which is 49° south, because the south magnetic pole is rather close to it, but people on the Antarctic continent itself near the peninsula could not see any because although further south geographically, they were at a greater distance to the magnetic pole.