Interesting Facts About South Pole

• The South Pole is the southern extremity of the earth’s axis located at 90-degrees South latitude in Antarctica. This geographic feature is the point from which the only direction is North.
• The area around the South Pole is a plateau in west-central Antarctica. This landmark is about 300 miles south of the Ross Ice Shelf.
• The geographic South Pole is in a different place than the magnetic South Pole and the geomagnetic South Pole, the southern end of the Earth’s geomagnetic field, both of which change positions.
• The South Pole was first reached by Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen on December 14, 1911, and then again the following year by the British explorer Robert F. Scott. U.S. explorer Richard Byrd arrived at the Pole in 1929.
• The South Pole has six months of complete daylight and six months of total darkness each year.