Geographic South Pole Aerial Panorama
In this panorama you see me standing right at the Geographic South Pole. That’s right, exactly at 90° South.
I have put hotspots on all the major landmarks. If you move your mouse around, you should see little text bubbles pop up.
| Please click on the image below to view the panorama: | |
 |
|
| Temperature: -63.0°C / -81.4°F, Windchill: -79.4°C / -111.0°F, Wind: E (80.0°) at 6.0 knt Date: 2007-09-30 22:22:35 NZDT |
This entry was posted
on Tuesday, October 9th, 2007 at 23:02.
You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
Both comments and pings are currently closed.
Tags: Antarctica, KAP, panorama, Pole marker, South Pole.
Related Posts:
Posts RSS
March 25th, 2008 06:17
Thanks for these great pictures – gives me a much better sense of being there.
But what you are calling the “geographic south pole” seems to actually be the “ceremonial south pole” which is now a few hundred(?) meters away from the current geographic south pole. The ice sheet is moving 10 m per year, and they evidently didn’t want to move the flagpoles all the time. There is a marker each year for the true geographic south pole as of Jan 1. But I’m having trouble finding a map of the movement over time. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Pole and update it if you know of any good maps. Cheers.
March 25th, 2008 20:03
The location of the Ceremonial Pole changes.
This panorama is from 2007. That year the Geographic South Pole and the Ceremonial Pole were in the same location. You see me standing right at the Geographic Pole, with the barber Pole of the Ceremonial Pole right in front of me.
April 7th, 2009 19:48
[...] continent there are more than ten years. Mount Patriot is also located at 1083 km from the geographic South Pole (coordinates 80 ° 19′S, 81 ° 16′W). At these latitudes and at this time of year the sun shines 24 [...]
July 18th, 2009 23:48
[...] continent there are more than ten years. Mount Patriot is also located at 1083 km from the geographic South Pole (coordinates 80 ° 19′S, 81 ° 16′W). At these latitudes and at this time of year [...]