How to Use the South Pole in a Sentence

the South Pole

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• 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
• The spacecraft had landed there, at the South Pole–Aitken Basin, around two days earlier.
  — Justine Calma, The Verge, 4 June 2024
• 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
• This bedrock is also why Antarctica is home to the South Pole Telescope, a radio observatory that helped take the first ever photo of a black hole.
  — Briley Lewis, Popular Science, 5 Sep. 2024
• 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
• Nearly all of the craters themselves have long since vanished—some covered by ice at the South Pole, some erased by erosion, some broken up by tectonic plates crashing together and disrupting the ground above them.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 18 Sep. 2024
• Scientists have two ways of measuring seasons: Astronomical seasons are based on how the South Pole is oriented toward or away from the sun.
  — Tiffany Acosta, The Arizona Republic, 15 June 2024
• Once-in-a-lifetime activities include visiting the South Pole and the emperor penguin colony at Atka Bay, and exploring ice waves threaded with turquoise rivers.
  — Annabel Illingworth, TIME, 25 July 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: 11 Nov 2024