Antarctica

South Pole

South Pole is a triangulation station in and has an elevation of 2,835 metres. South Pole is situated nearby to the aerodrome .
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Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Polheim and Jack F. Paulus Skiway.

Historic site
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was Roald Amundsen's name for his camp at the . He arrived there on 14 December 1911, along with four other members of his expedition: Helmer Hanssen, Olav Bjaaland, Oscar Wisting, and Sverre Hassel.

Aerodrome
Photo: JHG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is an airport located at at the . The station has a runway for aircraft, 3658 m / 12000 ft long.

Photo: Christopher Michel, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is a neutrino observatory developed by the University of Wisconsin–Madison and constructed at the in . is situated 1 km northwest of South Pole.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station.

Village
Photo: Christopher Michel, CC BY 4.0.
The is a United States scientific research station at the of the Earth. It is the southernmost point under the jurisdiction of the United States.

South Pole

Latitude
-90° or 90° south
Longitude
0°
Elevation
2,835 metres (9,301 feet)
Open location code
2F222222+22
Geo­Names ID
6269204
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“South Pole” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Suidpool”
  • Arabic: “قطب جنوبي”
  • Aragonese: “Polo Sud”
  • Armenian: “Հարավային բևեռ”
  • Asturian: “Polu Sur”
  • Azerbaijani: “Cənub qütbü”
  • Bashkir: “Көньяҡ полюс”
  • Basque: “Hego Burua”
  • Basque: “Hegoburua”
  • Bavarian: “Siidpoi”
  • Belarusian: “Паўднёвы полюс”
  • Bengali: “দক্ষিণ মেরু”
  • Bosnian: “Južni pol”
  • Breton: “Pennahel ar Su”
  • Bulgarian: “Южен полюс”
  • Burmese: “တောင်ဝင်ရိုးစွန်း”
  • Catalan: “Pol sud”
  • Central Kurdish: “جەمسەری باشوور”
  • Chechen: “Къилба полюс”
  • Chinese: “南极”
  • Chuvash: “Кăнтăр полюсĕ”
  • Cornish: “Pennaghel an Soth”
  • Croatian: “Polovi južne polutke”
  • Czech: “Jižní pól”
  • Danish: “Sydpolen”
  • Dutch: “Zuidpool”
  • Esperanto: “Suda Poluso”
  • Estonian: “Lõunapoolus”
  • Finnish: “Etelänapa”
  • French: “Pôle Sud”
  • Galician: “Polo Sur”
  • Gan Chinese: “南極點”
  • Georgian: “სამხრეთი პოლუსი”
  • German: “Südpol”
  • Greek: “Νότιος Πόλος”
  • Hebrew: “הקוטב הדרומי”
  • Hindi: “दक्षिणी ध्रुव”
  • Hungarian: “Déli-sark”
  • Icelandic: “Suðurpóllinn”
  • Iloko: “Abagatan nga Ungto”
  • Indonesian: “Kutub Selatan”
  • Interlingua: “Polo Sud”
  • Italian: “Polo sud”
  • Japanese: “南極点”
  • Javanese: “Kutub Kidul”
  • Kannada: “ದಕ್ಷಿಣ ಧ್ರುವ”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Къыбыла полюс”
  • Kazakh: “Оңтүстік полюс”
  • Kirghiz: “Түштүк уюл”
  • Korean: “남극점”
  • Kurdish: “Cemsera başûr”
  • Latin: “Polus Antarcticus” (historical)
  • Latin: “Polus australis”
  • Latvian: “Dienvidpols”
  • Limburgan: “Zuudpoeal”
  • Literary Chinese: “南極”
  • Lithuanian: “Pietų ašigalis”
  • Macedonian: “Јужен пол”
  • Malay: “Kutub Selatan”
  • Malayalam: “ദക്ഷിണധ്രുവം”
  • Marathi: “दक्षिण ध्रुव”
  • Mazanderani: “جنوبگان قاره”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Lâm-ke̍k”
  • Mongolian: “Өмнөд туйл”
  • Nepali: “दक्षिणी ध्रुव”
  • Norwegian: “Sørpolen”
  • Norwegian: “Sydpolen”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Pòl Sud”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Sūþende þǣre eaxe”
  • Panjabi: “ਦੱਖਣੀ ਧਰੁਵ”
  • Persian: “قطب جنوب”
  • Polish: “Biegun południowy”
  • Portuguese: “Polo Sul”
  • Quechua: “Urin qhipa”
  • Romanian: “Polul Sud”
  • Russian: “Южный полюс”
  • Rusyn: “Южный пол”
  • Samogitian: “Pėitū puolios”
  • Scots: “Sooth Pole”
  • Serbian: “Јужни пол”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Južni pol”
  • Sicilian: “Polu Sud”
  • Slovak: “Južný pól”
  • Slovenian: “Južni tečaj”
  • Somali: “Cirifka Koonfur”
  • South Azerbaijani: “گونئی قوطبو”
  • Spanish: “Polo Sur”
  • Spanish: “Sur, Polo”
  • Swahili: “Ncha ya kusini”
  • Swedish: “Sydpolen”
  • Tagalog: “Polong Timog”
  • Tamil: “தென் துருவம்”
  • Tatar: “Көньяк котып”
  • Thai: “ขั้วโลกใต้”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Südpol”
  • Turkish: “Güney Kutbu”
  • Turkmen: “Günorta polýus”
  • Uighur: “جەنۇبى قۇتۇپ”
  • Ukrainian: “Південний полюс”
  • Urdu: “قطب جنوبی”
  • Uzbek: “Janubiy qutb”
  • Vietnamese: “Nam Cực”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Katungtungan Salatan”
  • Welsh: “Pegwn y De”
  • Western Frisian: “Súdpoal”
  • Western Panjabi: “دکھنی قطب”
  • Wolof: “Dottub Bëj-saalum”
  • Xhosa: “I-South Pole”
  • Yakut: “Соҕуруу полюс”
  • Yiddish: “דרום פאלוס”
  • Yue Chinese: “南極”

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