the South Pole

noun

: the most southern point on the surface of the earth

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Shackleton and his crew got within 97 miles of the South Pole on the 1907-1909 Nimrod expedition. Joe Hernandez, NPR, 8 Oct. 2025 Over the last decade, scientists have gained a better understanding of the South Pole-Aitken basin in which Artemis astronauts will land. Elizabeth Howell, Space.com, 16 Sep. 2025 China aims to land humans at the South Pole before the year 2030. Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 3 Sep. 2025 At the South Pole, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, an immense detector buried deep under the ice, has been built to do just that. Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 24 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for the South Pole

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