Its only marker is a stake with a sign honoring the first explorers to reach the geographic south pole—Roald Amundsen and Robert Scott—in 1911 and 1912, respectively.

The building to the right of the South Pole Telescope contains the BICEP2 telescope, which is searching the skies for signs of inflation, the rapid expansion of the universe that occurred after ...

Ceremonial marker at the geographic South Pole. Jim Clash Once we arrived at the Pole, it was handshakes and high-fives.

On the white desert of the geographic South Pole, a house of worship was dedicated last week. Its congregation: the 17 men of the Deep Freeze IV outpost in Antarctica. The “Chapel of Our Faith ...

Mawson, David and Mackay braved frostbite, starvation and 2028km of difficult Antarctic terrain to reach the South Magnetic Pole.

Travel & Outdoors Meet an Intrepid Texan Who Spends Winters at the South Pole Rockport resident Wayne White has worked for much of the last three years in Antarctica, where temperatures of minus ...

The South Pole The Geographic South Pole is the most southerly point on Earth. It changes each year because the ice sheet that covers the land is continually moving.

The Earth may rotate on the axis of the geographic South Pole, where the world’s lines of longitude meet. But the South Pole station revolves largely around food.

Earth’s magnetic north is not static. Like an anchorless buoy pushed by ocean waves, the magnetic field is constantly on the move as liquid iron sloshes around in the planet’s outer core.

On January 18, 1912, Captain Robert Falcon Scott and four of his men reached the geographic South Pole, only to discover they were not the first people to make it there. When they arrived, they ...

Robert Swan, OBE (Order of the British Empire), arrived safely at Geographic South Pole on Jan. 10, 2023, successfully completing his 2023 Undaunted Expedition across the Antarctic landmass to the ...

And so, every New Year’s Day the words of Amundsen and Scott, inscribed as epitaphs at the geographic South Pole, are ceremonially moved to the newly measured, precise bottom of the earth.