Does the North Pole actually got a walkable ice cap region on the northest point of earth like we see on cartoons or is it just water and the closest we got to a walkable ice north pole region is Greenland?

Question

This always confused me a lot, on maps we usually don’t see a ice cap north pole region, just water, however we always see a ice cap region on Antarctica on the south pole, I’m not sure if this has to do with the fact that a huge part of Antarctica actually got real land below the ice instead of just frozen sea water, but the fact we never see any trace of north pole ice cap region draw on maps really confuses me to the point I’m not even sure if it exists at all

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Answer 1

There isn’t a land mass at the North Pole but there is a constant ice sheet over the Arctic Ocean that grows and shrinks with the seasons.

The Antarctic has a similar ice sheet but as you mentioned much of it is over land.

Answer 2

There is an ice cap at the noth pole. However it is seasonal. Over winter it can be quite solid like it was an actual landmass underneath. Come summer it can be more terse and just a series of large icebergs floating about.