Reddit mentions of The Path of the Pole

Read Path of the Pole by Charles Hapgood. The magnetic North pole used to be in Hudson Bay.

Charles Hapgood puts forth an idea in Path of the Pole that suggests the surface of the Earth hasn't always had the same orientation that it's had today. Basically, the Earth's outer core shifts over it's inner core from time to time. There's a lot of compelling evidence, but briefly:

1. When magnetic rock is molten, it's magnetic orientation is set by the location of the magnetic poles. When it hardens, its set in whichever direction it was pointing. There are endless cases of hardened magnetic rock pointing at all angles, even horizontal to the current pole location.
   
   
2. Just as human skin pigmentation is largely influenced by location on the Earth relative to the Equator, so too is the soil of the Earth. There are currently bands of soil distinctive from one another based on how much sun they receive. These bands shift directions dramatically throughout time based on archeological evidence.
   
   
3. There are trees and plants existing in fossil record at latitudes that do not receive enough sunlight to support those plants and trees based on today's orientation of the Earth to the Sun.
   
   To me this explains ice at the equator much better than a snowball earth theory.