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10 unusual facts about South pole


Alfred Cheetham

He returned with the Terra Nova Expedition, Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated attempt to be the first to reach the South Pole.

Alistair Mackay

The following spring when Shackelton set off to attempt to reach the South Pole, he despatched Mackay, Mawson and Edgeworth David northward to reach the South Magnetic Pole which lay approximately 650 km north-north-west of Ross Island.

Aviator Nunatak

It was named by the Southern Party of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (1961–62) for the aviators of Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd's flight to the South Pole in 1929.

Coppermine Expedition of 1819–22

The story of the Coppermine Expedition was to serve as an influence on Roald Amundsen, who would eventually become the first man to navigate the entire Northwest Passage, as well as the first to reach the South Pole.

History Lesson

The tribe is traveling toward the equator ahead of glaciers that are descending from the North Pole, but discovers, when they arrive in the last hospitable region of the planet, that glaciers from the South Pole have already almost reached them.

Magnetic South

South Pole, one of the two points where the Earth's axis of rotation intersects its surface

Michael Cross

On 17 January 2003 Mike Cross, aged 60, became the eldest person to travel to the South Pole and, along with his son William Cross, became the first diabetes sufferer to reach the South Pole.

Queen Maud Mountains

Captain Roald Amundsen and his South Pole party ascended Axel Heiberg Glacier near the central part of this group in November 1911, naming these mountains for the Norwegian queen Maud of Wales.

Richard Evelyn Byrd, Sr.

One of his sons, Richard, became famous as a naval aviator who led an expedition to the South Pole; another, Harry, would serve as Governor of Virginia and in the United States Senate.

Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure

While the South Pole had already been discovered, people had yet to make the cross-continent trek on foot.


Alien Hunter

Present day and the same signal is received from the South Pole and then retransmitted from the Falkland Islands to the United States.

Arctic Trucks

With unexplored crevasse area and a route never driven before, four Arctic Trucks Hilux AT44 drove from Novo to South Pole and back with film crew, doctors other service crew.

Artur Chilingarov

In January 2002, he led an expedition hosted by the Adventure Network International to the South Pole along with 14 other tourists on an Antonov An-3 biplane.

Arved Fuchs

On December 30, 1989, he and the famous mountain climber Reinhold Messner were the first to reach the South Pole without animal or motorised help, on skis, and with wind-assistance (parasail).

Ayin and Yesh

In their book The Grand Design physicists Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow argue that there was nothing before the Beginning, and explain it by comparing the Beginning to South Pole.

British Polar Engines

The engine and company take their name from the engine supplied to Amundsen's Fram, from which he conquered the South Pole.

Ernest Earl Lockhart

Following a year of study on fellowship at the Biochemical Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, E.E. Lockhart served as the physiologist on Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd’s United States Antarctic Service Expedition of 1939-1941 to the South Pole.

Framheim

Framheim was the name of explorer Roald Amundsen's base at the Bay of Whales on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica during his quest for the South Pole.

Frank Debenham

He did not take part in the ill-fated journey to the South pole due to a knee injury sustained while playing football in the snow, and instead took part in the second western journey along with Griffith Taylor, Tryggve Gran and William Forde.

Fyodor Konyukhov

Konyukhov is the only person to have reached such extreme points of the planet as the North Pole (three times), the South Pole, the Pole of Inaccessibility in the Arctic Ocean and the top of Mount Everest (twice) and also sailed around the world via Cape Horn.

Gabardine

Burberry clothing of gabardine was worn by polar explorers, including Roald Amundsen, the first man to reach the South Pole, in 1911, and Ernest Shackleton, who led a 1914 expedition to cross Antarctica.

Khoo Swee Chiow

Khoo becomes the first South East Asian and the fourth person in the world to complete "The Adventure Grand Slam," that is, the South Pole, the North Pole and the Seven Summits.

Luigi Romersa

He worked there for decades, traveling around the world, from the South Pole to Israel - during the Six-Day War - and Bahrain, where he covered the 1973 oil crisis.

Marisat

It was relocated to 326.1 E (33.9º W), over the Atlantic ocean, and since 1999 F2 had been providing a wide-band data link for the National Science Foundation's U.S. Antarctic Program's Amundsen-Scott research station at the South Pole.

Moffett Glacier

it was discovered by Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd on the South Pole flight of November 28–29, 1929, and named by him for Rear Admiral William A. Moffett, U.S. Navy, first Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics, Department of the Navy.

Mosley-Thompson Cirques

They were named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 1994 after glaciologist Ellen Stone Mosley-Thompson of the Byrd Polar Research Center, Ohio State University, who for many years from 1974 onwards analyzed ice samples from Antarctica and conducted field research at the South Pole, at Siple Station, and at Plateau Remote Camp.

Mount Balchen

Named by the Southern Party of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (NZGSAE) (1961–62) for Bernt Balchen, pilot with Roald Amundsen on Arctic flights, and with Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd on his South Pole flight of 1929.

Mount Bumstead

It was discovered by R. Admiral Byrd on the Byrd Antarctic Expedition flight to the South Pole in November 1929 and named by him for Albert H. Bumstead, chief cartographer of the National Geographic Society at that time, and inventor of the sun compass, a device utilizing shadows of the sun to determine directions in areas where magnetic compasses are unreliable.

Rebecca Lee

She is the first Hong Kong person and the first woman to have visited all three extremes of the Earth – the North Pole, the South Poles, and Mount Everest.

Simon Murray

Three years later, following a suggestion by his wife, Murray joined Pen Hadow for a trek to the Geographic South Pole.

Spain Peak

It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 2005 after Rae Spain, who from 1979 to 2004 completed 22 field season deployments in various positions held for U.S. Antarctic Project support contractors at the McMurdo, Siple, Palmer, and South Pole Stations, and at remote field camp stations.