The South Pole is the place on the surface of the earth which is farthest towards the south. the most southern point on the surface of the Earth magnetic pole, north pole north pole. Southern extremity of the Earth's axis, located at latitude 90° S. It is the southern point from which all meridians of longitude start. The area around it is a lofty plateau in west-central Antarctica, with ice as much as 8,850 ft (2,700 m) thick. It has six months of complete daylight and six months of total darkness each year. It was first reached by the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen in 1911, one month before the expedition led by British explorer Robert Falcon Scott; U.S. explorer Richard E. Byrd flew to the pole in 1929. The geographic pole does not coincide with the magnetic South Pole, which lies on the Adélie Coast about 66°00 S, 139°06 E; it moves about 8 mi (13 km) to the northwest each year. The geomagnetic South Pole also moves; during the early 1990s it was located about 79°13 S, 108°44 E, and in 2000 it was 65°39 S, 140° 01 E
Surface location defined by the intersection of the polar axis with Earth's surface in the Southern Hemisphere This location has a latitude of 90 degrees South
The portion of a magnetized object that, if free to move, will point toward the portion of the Earth geographically designated as South; lines of flux emanate from the North pole and enter the South pole
The south pole is the furthest point south on the earth It is located in Antartica and the imagionary axis of rotation line (discussed above) passes through the south pole, straight to the north pole (see above) Return to Seasonal Temperature Effects