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jmdict 2860358 Active (id: 2293281)
<entry id="2293281" stat="A" corpus="jmdict" type="jmdict">
<ent_corp type="jmdict">jmdict</ent_corp>
<ent_seq>2860358</ent_seq>
<r_ele>
<reb>ノースポール</reb>
</r_ele>
<r_ele>
<reb>ノース・ポール</reb>
</r_ele>
<sense>
<pos>&n;</pos>
<xref type="see" seq="1520890">北極・1</xref>
<misc>&rare;</misc>
<gloss>North Pole</gloss>
</sense>
<info>
<audit time="2024-03-03 17:08:29" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_uid>stephen</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Stephen Kraus</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_refs>Daijirin

Wikipedia says a seed company used to market a flower under the name "North Pole," which might be why there are so many counts in the google corpus. A web search for "ノースポール" shows mostly flowers.
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AB%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B7%E3%83%AD%E3%82%AE%E3%82%AF

Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーーーーー─┬─────────┬───────╮
│ ノースポール  │  21,466 │  6.0% │
│ ノース・ポール │     285 │  0.1% │
│ 北極      │ 334,436 │ 93.9% │
╰─ーーーーーーー─┴─────────┴───────╯</upd_refs>
</audit>
<audit time="2024-03-03 20:51:52" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
</audit>
</info>
</entry>



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