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 Antarctica.| Tap on the map to travel |
Photo: H Debussy-Jones, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Eli Duke, CC BY-SA 2.0.
South Pole
- Type: Locality
- Description: one of the two points where the Earth's axis of rotation intersects its surface
- Categories: geographical pole and region
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude of centre
-90° or 90° southLongitude of centre
0°Elevation
2,835 metres (9,301 feet)Named after
southOpenStreetMap ID
node 436012592OpenStreetMap Feature
place=localityGeoNames ID
6942239Wikidata ID
Q933South Pole Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Suidpool
- Albanian: Poli i Jugut
- Amharic: Notimolan ’Apocok
- Amharic: ደቡብ ዋልታ
- Amis: Notimolan ’Apocok
- Arabic: Katungtungan Salatan
- 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: Hego poloa
- Basque: hegoburua
- Bavarian: Siidpoi
- Belarusian: Паўднёвае канцавосьсе
- Belarusian: Паўднёвы полюс
- Bengali: দক্ষিণ মেরু
- Bosnian: Južni pol
- Breton: Pennahel ar Su
- Bulgarian: Южен полюс
- Burmese: တောင်ဝင်ရိုးစွန်း
- Catalan: Pol Sud
- Catalan: South Pole
- 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: Lâm-ke̍k
- Chinese: 南极
- Chinese: 南极点/南極點
- Chinese: 南极点
- Chinese: 南極
- 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
- Dutch: geografische Zuidpool
- Egyptian Arabic: قطب جنوبى
- English: Geographic South Pole
- English: Terrestrial South Pole
- Esperanto: Suda poluso
- Estonian: Lõunapoolus
- Fiji Hindi: South Pole
- Finnish: Etelänapa
- Finnish: etelänapa
- Finnish: maantieteellinen etelänapa
- French: Pôle Sud
- French: pôle Sud
- Galician: Polo Sur
- Gan Chinese: 南極點
- Georgian: სამხრეთი პოლუსი
- German: Südpol
- German: geographischer Südpol
- Greek: Νότιος Πόλος
- Hebrew: הקוטב הדרומי
- Hindi: दक्षिणी ध्रुव
- Hungarian: Déli-pólus
- Hungarian: Déli-sark
- Hungarian: Déli Sark
- Icelandic: Suðurheimskautið
- Iloko: Abagatan nga Ungto
- Inari Sami: maadânääpi
- Indonesian: Kutub Selatan
- Ingush: ЗIилбухера дунен шод
- Interlingua: Polo Sud
- Irish: An Pol Theas
- Italian: Polo antartico
- 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
- Lao: Abagatan nga Ungto
- Latin (Historic): Polus Antarcticus
- Latin: Polus Australis
- Latin: Polus australis
- Latvian: Dienvidpols
- Limburgan: Zuudpoeal
- Literary Chinese: 南極
- Lithuanian: Pietų ašigalis
- Low German: Süüdpool
- Luxembourgish: Südpol
- Macedonian: јужен пол
- Malagasy: Tendrontany Atsimo
- Malay: Kutub Selatan
- Malayalam: ദക്ഷിണധ്രുവം
- Maori: Hauta Pōra
- Maori: Pou Tonga
- Maori: Te Pito Tonga
- Maori: Te Pito Whakarunga o te Ao
- Maori: Tōpito Whakarunga
- 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
- Nepali: दक्षिणी ध्रुव
- Northern Frisian: Süüdpuul (eerd)
- Northern Frisian: Süüdpuul
- Northern Sami: lullipola
- Northern Sami: máttapola
- Norwegian: Sydpolen
- Norwegian Bokmål: Sydpolen
- Norwegian Bokmål: Sørpolen
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Sørpolen
- Occitan (post 1500): Pòl Sud
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Sūþende þǣre eaxe
- Panjabi: ਦੱਖਣੀ ਧਰੁਵ
- Persian: قطب جنوب
- Persian: قطب جنوب جغرافیایی
- 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
- Sicilian: Polu Sud
- Sindhi: اتر 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: Polo Sur
- Spanish: Polo Sur Geografico
- Spanish: Polo Sur Geográfico
- Spanish: Polo sur
- Spanish: el Antártico
- Swahili: Ncha ya kusini
- Swedish: South Pole
- Swedish: Sydpolen
- Swiss German: Sidpol
- Swiss German: Südpol
- Tagalog: Polong Timog
- Tamil: தென் துருவம்
- Tatar: Көньяк котып
- Telugu: దక్షిణ దృవం
- Thai: ขั้วโลกใต้
- Tosk Albanian: Südpol
- Turkish: Güney Kutbu
- Turkmen: Günorta polýus
- Uighur: جەنۇبى قۇتۇپ
- Ukrainian: Південний бігун
- Ukrainian: Південний полюс
- 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 Frisian: geografyske Súdpoal
- Western Panjabi: جنوبی قطب
- Western Panjabi: دکھنی قطب
- Wolof: Dottub Bëj-saalum
- Wu Chinese: 南极
- Xhosa: I-South Pole
- Yakut: Соҕуруу полюс
- Yiddish: דרום פאלוס
- Yue Chinese: 南極
- Cemsera Başûr
- Pole sud
- Polo sud
- Suðurpóllinn
- Јужен Пол
- ЗӀилбухера дунен шод
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page South Pole. Photo: Eli Duke, CC BY-SA 2.0.