Hi there!
I've read with keen interest this article from Live Science.
I would like to add my modest contribution to this.
Here's the magnetic pole position since 1831 (estimated):
Movement of the Earth’s North Magnetic Pole Over Time. Diagram constructed from data on the
U. S. Geological Survey’s (USGS’s) website and from the
Canadian Geological Survey’s (CGS’s) website. (Refer to the latter URL for a review of the history of the search for the north magnetic pole and how its position is determined and tracked). Note that the projected year-2005 position was made by the USGS.
According to L. Newitt of the Canadian Geological Survey,
since 1994 the movement of the north magnetic pole has been accelerating markedly. In 1994 it was moving at a speed of 15 km (9.3 mi.) per year. Today it is moving at more than twice that speed, or 40 km (25 mi.) per year. By contrast, in the 73 year period from 1831 to 1904 the north magnetic pole moved a little over 51 km (32 mi.) which works out to an average rate of 0.7 km (0.4 mi.) per year. Mr. Newitt indicates that the acceleration seems to be correlated with “jerks” in the geomagnetic field. A jerk is a rapid change, taking place over a year or two, in the worldwide variation of a specific component of the geomagnetic field.
I have hard time to find any information about the actual position of the magnetic pole; seems like the last accurate measurements was made in 2001 and the following positions (until 2005) was only
estimations.....