South Pole Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
one of the two points where the Earth's axis of rotation intersects its surface
About South Pole
19th century explorers probed Antarctica's coasts but realized that the Pole lay over 1000 km inland in an intensely cold, uncharted region. The best route was from the Ross Sea, which ships could approach in summer. There you'd need to establish a base and lay supply caches along your return route, and camp over winter, to be ready to strike out for the Pole next spring and get back before the following winter overtook you. And how would you even know (and prove to the world) that you'd got there? Several expeditions were forced back, the closest being Shackleton'sNimrodgroup of 1908 / 09 which got to within 180 km. This established that the interior beyond the Transantarctic Mountains was a featureless high-altitude plateau.Roald Amundsen(1872-1928) initially aimed for the North Pole, bu
South Pole Travel Guide Sections
Our comprehensive guide covers 11 sections including: