How to Use the South Pole in a Sentence

the South Pole

noun

• Enlarge / Some of the ice near the South Pole of Mars stays around all year long.
  — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 5 Oct. 2023
• Or the cyclist who attempted to bike to the South Pole?
  — Dakota Kim, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2023
• These Roombas are at the South Pole to do what Roombas do: help keep the floors clean.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 26 Oct. 2023
• Benetti’s newest fleet member could get you all the way from the North Pole to the South Pole.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 21 July 2023
• At 86, Aldrin became the oldest person to reach the South Pole.
  — New York Times, BostonGlobe.com, 24 June 2023
• My hundred-and-forty-foot man-of-war sought to make the first mission to the South Pole, a feat that would bring pride to England.
  — Mike O’Brien, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2023
• There’s nowhere else in the solar system that’s as comfortable as even the top of Everest or the South Pole.
  — Jan Zalasiewicz, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2016
• They're known as the aurora borealis around the North Pole and the aurora australis around the South Pole.
  — John Helton, NPR, 12 May 2024
• Starting in 1901, British and Norwegian explorers began the race to reach the South Pole.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Feb. 2023
• Wondering what happened before the big bang is like wondering what’s south of the South Pole.
  — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 14 Mar. 2023
• She’s also spent a year at the South Pole, an arduous stay that could well prepare her for the intensity of a moon mission.
  — Jackie Wattles, CNN, 2 Apr. 2023
• From there, as temperatures warm, the fleet follows the massive swarms of krill toward the South Pole, fishing at the foundation of the fragile ecosystem’s food web.
  — Joshua Goodman, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2023
• Its ambitions include setting up a high-altitude balloon base in the South Pole.
  — Lily Kuo, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2023
• And near the South Pole, where Scambos works, the record-hot oceans seem to have disrupted the current of cold water that typically surrounds Antarctica.
  — Sarah Kaplan, Anchorage Daily News, 13 July 2023
• At the South Pole, for the next several years the agency will only support experiments that have already been approved to go forward.
  — Byadrian Cho, science.org, 22 June 2023
• While the station’s humans rotate seasonally, there are in fact four full-time residents: the South Pole Roombas.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 26 Oct. 2023
• Only the smallest, most isolated islands and Antarctica are out of the loop—anyone at the South Pole is stuck using slow satellite internet.
  — Harry Guinness, Popular Science, 28 Sep. 2023
• Both locations rank high on the list of Earth’s darkest, clearest skies, but the South Pole site in particular poses resource and transportation challenges.
  — Daniel Garisto, Scientific American, 13 Dec. 2023
• The discovery was accomplished with a detector at the South Pole that had identified neutrinos from distant galaxies, but none from the Milky Way.
  — Andrea Guzman, Fortune, 30 June 2023
• The return of great-power competition is bringing new instability to the South Pole.
  — Elizabeth Buchanan, Foreign Affairs, 18 Mar. 2024
• Zimbabwe was beset by hyperinflation—the South Pole team brought home a trillion-dollar bill as a souvenir—and by mass unemployment.
  — Heidi Blake, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
• But less ice near the South Pole would dramatically affect the formation of plankton and other microscopic sea life that’s critical to the region’s ecosystem.
  — Andre Mouchard, Orange County Register, 24 May 2024
• Boosting the grid capacity at the South Pole would also require a separate project, not even proposed so far, that likely couldn’t be realized much before 2040, Ulvestad says.
  — Byadrian Cho, science.org, 22 June 2023

Last Updated: 20 Aug 2024