South Pole
The southernmost point on Earth found at latitude 90 degrees South.
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The South Pole is the southernmost point on Earth and is found at latitude 90 degrees South. The South Pole lies on the continent of Antarctica that is 1½ times the size of the USA, twice the size of Australia, and 58 times the size of the UK. Antarctica has 90% of the world’s ice (and therefore about 70% of the world’s fresh water). If all of this ice were to melt, sea levels would rise about 200 feet.
Antarctica does have a permanent Base Camp called Union Glacier Camp. We are dropped off by ski aircraft at 89° South and begin to pull sleds 60 nautical miles (111km) to the most southerly point on Earth – the Geographic South Pole. As Antarctica is the highest, driest, windiest, coldest continent in the world, conditions can be tough with temperatures averaging between -25C and -40C. Often sleds have to be pulled over sastrugi – hard-packed, wind-blown snow. Those lucky enough to reach the South Pole can also tour the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. Like the North Pole in summer months it is light 24 hours a day and in winter months it is dark 24 hours a day.
