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Antarctica : South Pole

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0.3 km (0.2 miles) S of Amundsen-Scott Station, South Pole, Antarctica (maps: street )

(visited by Sarah Kaye and Chuck Kimball)

Two visits so far to this confluence. The first was by Sarah Kaye.

01-Dec-99 -- I've been in Antarctica since the end of August but I just got to the Pole at the beginning of December. It's an interesting place. I'm running radios.

In the aerial view (photo #2) look right and down from the Dome to the small semicircle, that's the shadows of the flags around the ceremonial pole. The geographic pole is just a bit down and to the left.

The next visit was by Chuck Kimball.

26-Jan-2000 -- While working for the US Antarctic Program during the 1999-2000 Summer, I was filling in at the South Pole as a Communications Tech.

This should count as one of the two major points of Confluence, every Longitude and the 90S Latitude converge here.

Click on any of the images for the full-sized picture.

All pictures:

• #1: South Pole (the real one, not the silly ceremonial one) (visit #1)
• #2: An aerial view of the south pole station (visit #1)
• #3: Some radios (visit #1)
• #4: The entrance to the south pole station (visit #2)
• #5: Here I am a the Geographic South Pole 2/2/00 (visit #2)
• #6: It was a bit chilly at the Ceremonial Pole -30F