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NorthEscambia.com Tracks Santa’s Trip
December 24, 2009
On Christmas Eve, NorthEscambia.com teamed up with the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) to track the progress of Santa Claus around the world.
The map below shows Santa’s trip around the world as provided by NORAD.
Click the Santa on the map for a photo or video. Click any video symbol to watch a video from that location, or click any present for a photo or video.
For more than 50 years, NORAD and its predecessor, the Continental Air Defense Command (CONAD) have tracked Santa’s Christmas Eve flight.
The tradition began in 1955 after a Colorado Springs-based Sears Roebuck & Co. advertisement for children to call Santa misprinted the telephone number. Instead of reaching Santa, the phone number put kids through to the CONAD Commander-in-Chief’s operations “hotline.” The Director of Operations at the time, Colonel Harry Shoup, had his staff check the radar for indications of Santa making his way south from the North Pole. Children who called were given updates on his location, and a tradition was born.
In 1958, the governments of Canada and the United States created a bi-national air defense command for North America called the North American Aerospace Defense Command, also known as NORAD, which then took on the tradition of tracking Santa.
Since that time, NORAD men, women, family and friends have selflessly volunteered their time to personally respond to Christmas Eve phone calls and emails from children. In addition, we now track Santa using the internet. Last year, millions of people who wanted to know Santa’s whereabouts visited the NORAD Tracks Santa website.
For more, visit www.noradsanta.org
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7 Responses to “NorthEscambia.com Tracks Santa’s Trip”
i wach him every year can he make it arond the wold
thak you for making this websit for kids like me to wach santas trep giveing gifes to boys and grils im haveing fun lerning about him i hope he is haveing some fun and cant waht tell he comes.
I didn ‘t know that this tradition was born of an accident. That is pretty neat.
he is here he is here
I like tracking Santa! It is so much fun! Thanks Northescambia.com!
Thank you for this tracking map. My kids do this every year too; it helps in getting them to bed.
I you will click some of the presents and the Santa too you can teach your kids about world geography at the same time.
Merry Christmas!
My kids track Santa every year. Thanks William