South Pole

The Geographic South Pole is the point where the Earth's axis of rotation intersects the surface of the southern hemisphere, in the remote, bleak interior of .
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  • Type: Locality
  • Description: one of the two points where the Earth’s axis of rotation intersects its surface
  • Also known as: “Déli-pólus”, “geografische Zuidpool”, “geografyske Súdpoal”, “geographic South Pole”, “geographischer Südpol”, “Hauta Pōra”, “Hego poloa”, “maantieteellinen etelänapa”, “máttapola”, “Polo Sur Geografico”, “Polo Sur Geográfico”, “Pou Tonga”, “south geographic pole”, “south terrestrial pole”, “Te Pito Tonga”, “terrestrial South Pole”, “Tōpito Whakarunga”, “Tsuung A̱tak Lyen-a̱byin”, “Паўднёвае канцавосьсе”, “Південний бігун”, and “قطب جنوب جغرافیایی”

South Pole

Latitude of center
-90° or 90° south
Longitude of center
0°
Elevation
2,835 metres (9,301 feet)
Named after
south
Open­Street­Map ID
node 436012592
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­pole
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­locality
Wiki­data ID
Q933
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“South Pole” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Suidpool”
  • Albanian: “Poli i Jugut”
  • Amharic: “ደቡብ ዋልታ”
  • Amis: “Notimolan ’Apocok”
  • Arabic: “القطب الجنوبي”
  • Aragonese: “Polo Sud”
  • Armenian: “Հարավային բևեռ”
  • Assamese: “কুমেৰু”
  • Asturian: “Polu Sur”
  • Azerbaijani: “Cənub qütbü”
  • Balinese: “Kutub Kelod”
  • Banjar: “Kutub Salatan”
  • Bashkir: “Көньяҡ полюс”
  • Basque: “hegoburua”
  • Basque: “Hegoburua”
  • Bavarian: “Siidpoi”
  • Belarusian: “Паўднёвы полюс”
  • Bengali: “দক্ষিণ মেরু”
  • Betawi: “Kutub Kidul”
  • Bosnian: “Južni pol”
  • Breton: “Pennahel ar Su”
  • Bulgarian: “Южен полюс”
  • Burmese: “တောင်ဝင်ရိုးစွန်း”
  • Catalan: “pol Sud”
  • Catalan: “Pol Sud”
  • Cebuano: “South Pole”
  • Central Bikol: “Habagatan na Polo”
  • Central Kurdish: “جەمسەری باشوور”
  • Chechen: “Къилба полюс”
  • Chechen: “Къилбера полюс”
  • Cherokee: “ᏧᎦᎾᏩ ᏩᏍᏛ”
  • Chinese: “南极点/南極點”
  • Chinese: “南极点”
  • Chinese: “南極點”
  • Chuvash: “Кăнтăр полюсĕ”
  • Cornish: “Pennaghel an Soth”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Cenüp qutubı”
  • Croatian: “Polovi južne polutke”
  • Czech: “Jižní pól”
  • Danish: “Sydpolen”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Poley Veroci”
  • Dutch: “Zuidpool”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “قطب جنوبى”
  • Esperanto: “Suda poluso”
  • Estonian: “Lõunapoolus”
  • Fiji Hindi: “South Pole”
  • Finnish: “etelänapa”
  • Finnish: “Etelänapa”
  • French: “pôle Sud”
  • French: “Pôle Sud”
  • Friulian: “Pôl Sud”
  • Galician: “Polo Sur”
  • Gan Chinese: “南極點”
  • Georgian: “სამხრეთი პოლუსი”
  • German: “Südpol”
  • Gilaki: “جنوبی ٚ قۊطب”
  • Gilaki: “نسايي قۊطب”
  • Greek: “Νότιος Πόλος”
  • Hebrew: “הקוטב הדרומי”
  • Hindi: “दक्षिणी ध्रुव”
  • Hungarian: “Déli-sark”
  • Icelandic: “Suðurheimskautið”
  • Icelandic: “Suðurpóllinn”
  • Ido: “Suda polo”
  • Iloko: “Abagatan nga Ungto”
  • Inari Sami: “maadânääpi”
  • Indonesian: “Kutub Selatan”
  • Ingush: “ЗIилбухера дунен шод”
  • Ingush: “ЗӀилбухера дунен шод”
  • Interlingua: “Polo Sud”
  • Irish: “An Pol Theas”
  • Italian: “Polo antartico”
  • Italian: “polo sud”
  • Italian: “Polo sud”
  • Japanese: “南極点”
  • Javanese: “Kutub Kidul”
  • Kannada: “ದಕ್ಷಿಣ ಧ್ರುವ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Qubla polyus”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Къыбыла полюс”
  • Kashmiri: “دَکھیُٛن تِہُر”
  • Kazakh: “Оңтүстік полюс”
  • Kirghiz: “Түштүк уюл”
  • Korean: “남극점”
  • Kurdish: “Cemsera başûr”
  • Kurdish: “Cemsera Başûr”
  • Latin: “Polus australis”
  • Latin: “Polus Australis”
  • Latvian: “Dienvidpols”
  • Limburgan: “Zuudpoeal”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Polo sude”
  • Literary Chinese: “南極”
  • Lithuanian: “Pietų ašigalis”
  • Low German: “Süüdpool”
  • Luxembourgish: “Südpol”
  • Macedonian: “јужен пол”
  • Macedonian: “Јужен Пол”
  • Malagasy: “Tendrontany Atsimo”
  • Malay: “Kutub Selatan”
  • Malayalam: “ദക്ഷിണധ്രുവം”
  • Maori: “Te Pito Whakarunga o te Ao”
  • Marathi: “दक्षिण ध्रुव”
  • Mazanderani: “جنوب قطب”
  • Mazanderani: “جنوبگان قاره”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Lâm-ke̍k”
  • Minangkabau: “Kutub Selatan”
  • Mingrelian: “ობჟათე პოლუსი”
  • Mongolian: “Өмнөд туйл”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “لقطب الجنوبي”
  • Neapolitan: “Pole sud”
  • Nepali: “दक्षिणी ध्रुव”
  • Northern Frisian: “Süüdpuul (eerd)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Süüdpuul”
  • Northern Sami: “lullipola”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sydpolen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sørpolen”
  • Norwegian: “Sydpolen”
  • Obolo: “Ọfọkọ agan̄ Osiki”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Pòl Sud”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Sūþende þǣre eaxe”
  • Panjabi: “ਦੱਖਣੀ ਧਰੁਵ”
  • Papiamento: “Sùitpol”
  • Persian: “قطب جنوب”
  • Piemontese: “Pòl Sud”
  • Polish: “biegun południowy”
  • Polish: “Biegun południowy”
  • Portuguese: “Polo Sul”
  • Portuguese: “Pólo Sul”
  • Quechua: “Urin qhipa”
  • Romanian: “Polul Sud”
  • Russian: “Южный полюс”
  • Rusyn: “Южный пол”
  • Samogitian: “Pėitū puolios”
  • Saraiki: “قطب جنوبی”
  • Sardinian: “Polu sud”
  • Scots: “Sooth Pole”
  • Serbian: “јужни пол”
  • Serbian: “Јужни пол”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Južni pol”
  • Shan: “ၸိၵ်းၸၢၼ်း”
  • Sicilian: “Polu Sud”
  • Sindhi: “ڏاکڻي قطب”
  • Sindhi: “ڏکڻ قطب”
  • Sinhala: “දක්ෂිණ ධ්‍රැවය”
  • Skolt Sami: “saujjnääʹpp”
  • Slovak: “Južný pól”
  • Slovenian: “Južni tečaj”
  • Somali: “Cirifka Koonfur”
  • South Azerbaijani: “جنوب قوطبو”
  • South Azerbaijani: “گونئی قوطبی”
  • Spanish: “el Antártico”
  • Spanish: “Polo sur”
  • Spanish: “Polo Sur”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴰⵙⴼⴰⵢⵍⵓ ⵏ ⵓⵏⵣⵓⵍ”
  • Swahili: “Ncha ya kusini”
  • Swedish: “Sydpolen”
  • Swiss German: “Sidpol”
  • Swiss German: “Südpol”
  • Tagalog: “Polong Timog”
  • Tagalog: “Timog Polo”
  • Tamil: “தென் துருவம்”
  • Tatar: “Көньяк котып”
  • Telugu: “దక్షిణ దృవం”
  • Thai: “ขั้วโลกใต้”
  • Turkish: “Güney Kutbu”
  • Turkmen: “Günorta polýus”
  • Tyap: “Tsuung A̱tak Swanta”
  • Udmurt: “Лымшор полюс”
  • Uighur: “جەنۇبى قۇتۇپ”
  • Ukrainian: “Південний полюс”
  • Urdu: “جغرافیائی جنوبی قطب”
  • Urdu: “قطب جنوبی”
  • Uzbek: “Janubiy qutb”
  • Venetian: “poło sud”
  • Veps: “Suvinaba”
  • Vietnamese: “Nam Cực”
  • Võro: “Lõunõnaba”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Katungtungan Salatan”
  • Welsh: “Pegwn y De”
  • Western Frisian: “Súdpoal”
  • Western Panjabi: “جنوبی قطب”
  • Wolof: “Dottub Bëj-saalum”
  • Wu Chinese: “南极”
  • Xhosa: “I-South Pole”
  • Yakut: “Соҕуруу полюс”
  • Yiddish: “דרום פאלוס”
  • Yue Chinese: “南極”
  • Zulu: “Ichopho laseNingizimu”

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