The answer is mineral deposits
I could help, however the photo is extremely blurry
If you joined Santa last Christmas at the north pole (90 degrees latitude), you would have seen Polaris straight overhead and the celestial equator on your horizon. The point straight overhead on the celestial sphere for any observer is called the zenith and is always 90 degrees from the horizon.
So the answer is the North Pole.
After looking at the graph and doing some research, the compass direction in which the Pacific Plate has moved during the last 4.6 million years is from the SE towards the NW. You can also write it other ways such as, NNW, to the northwest, or west northwest.