Comments on: Geographic South Pole Aerial Panorama

By: The Brazilian expedition to Antarctica on the way back

The Brazilian expedition to Antarctica on the way back — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 10:48:14 +0000

[...] continent there are more than ten years. Mount Patriot is also located at 1083 km from the geographic South Pole (coordinates 80 Â° 19′S, 81 Â° 16′W). At these latitudes and at this time of year [...]

By: The Brazilian expedition to Antarctica on the way back | Everyday Science

The Brazilian expedition to Antarctica on the way back | Everyday Science — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 06:48:03 +0000

[...] 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 [...]

By: steffen

steffen — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 07:03:29 +0000

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.

By: Neal McBurnett

Neal McBurnett — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:17:06 +0000

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.