What is South Pole?
{{coord|90|S|0|E|display=title}} {{Refimprove|date=September 2015}} [[Image:Pole-south.gif|330px|thumb|right|1. South Geographic Pole<br>2. [[South Magnetic Pole]] (2007)<br>3. [[South Geomagnetic Pole]] (2005)<br>4. [[Pole of Inaccessibility|South Pole of Inaccessibility]]]] The '''South Pole''' is the most southern point on the [[Earth]]. It is in [[Antarctica]] and is the center of the [[Southern Hemisphere]]. From the South pole, everywhere is North. Unlike the [[North Pole]], which is covered by sea and flat sea-ice, the South Pole is on a mountainous [[continent]] called [[Antarctica]]. Antarctica has not always been at the South Pole. [[Continental drift]] has occurred. The [[geographic]] North and South poles are the poles the Earth [[axis of rotation|spins around]]. These poles stay in the same place, and are usually the ones we mean if we just say North or South Pole. People can tell that they are at these poles by looking at the stars (at the poles, a star just circles around at the same height, never dipping to the horizon). The [[Sun]] rises once a year and gives the South Pole half a year of summer but it is always cold. When the Sun sets half a year later it makes half a year of winter which is even colder. The South Pole is always cold because the Sun never rises high in the sky. The [[south magnetic pole]] is something different. It is defined by the Earth's [[magnetic field]], as roughly where a magnetic [[compass]] needle points. People can tell they are near these poles by looking at a compass. == Exploration == The South Pole is hard to reach. Unlike the North pole, which is covered by the sea and flat sea-ice, the South Pole is on a mountainous [[continent]]. This continent is called Antarctica. It is covered by thick ice (more than a mile thick in the centre). The south Pole is very high up, and is very windy. It is far from places where people live, and ships going there often have to find their way through thick sea ice. Once ashore, land-travelling explorers have to travel more than