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
  • The same phenomenon near the South Pole is called the southern lights.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 11 Oct. 2024
  • The moon's largest impact feature, the South Pole-Aitken Basin.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Koch, 47, made her way to NASA via the South Pole.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 29 Jan. 2026
  • At 86, Aldrin became the oldest person to reach the South Pole.
    — New York Times, BostonGlobe.com, 24 June 2023
  • China aims to land humans at the South Pole before the year 2030.
    — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 3 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • These will be able to orbit the globe, traveling over the South Pole to avoid early detection.
    — Eleanor Watson, CBS News, 20 May 2025
  • That mission will send scientific payloads to the South Pole region of the moon.
    — Matthew Glasser, ABC News, 26 May 2026
  • Parks is the first person of color to ski solo to the South Pole, and the first Welshman to do so, as well.
    — Abigail Wise, Outside, 3 Jan. 2026
  • On the cruise, Sorby gives presentations about her journey to the South Pole.
    — Will McGough, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
  • In fact, Amundsen got to the South Pole first and also was the first to cross Antarctica.
    — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Richard Byrd’s pioneering round-trip flight to the South Pole was granted that honor.
    — Barbara Spindel, Christian Science Monitor, 21 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • Rising out of the frozen plateau is the South Pole Telescope, a key tool for radio astronomy.
    — Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The periods of extended daytime and nighttime are longer closer to the South Pole.
    — Kate S. Petersen, USA TODAY, 27 Dec. 2024
  • Its ambitions include setting up a high-altitude balloon base in the South Pole.
    — Lily Kuo, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Earth spins on its axis, which runs from the South Pole through the center of the Earth to the North Pole, once a day.
    — Vahe Peroomian, The Conversation, 5 Mar. 2026
  • There are post offices at the South Pole and Greenland, Kochersperger said, and post offices aboard ships all over the world.
    — Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 18 May 2026
  • Keep in mind in the last decade, 12 blocks of ice the size of the state of Rhode Island have broken off the South Pole.
    — NBC News, 13 Oct. 2024
  • By contrast, Sir Ernest Shackleton never reached the South Pole.
    — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Apr. 2026
  • This time, the entire world is plunged underwater (by an asteroid impacting the South Pole).
    — K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 17 Apr. 2026
  • The mission will last around 30 days and will take two astronauts near to the South Pole of the moon for approximately a week.
    — Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 16 Jan. 2025
  • The mission will last around 30 days and will take two astronauts near to the South Pole of the moon for approximately a week.
    — Tom Howarth, Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Take, for instance, its first crossing on foot, or a group of filmmakers documenting a kite-skiing journey to the South Pole.
    — Laura Dannen Redman, Robb Report, 29 Mar. 2026
  • As for the mission itself, China is targeting the South Pole as it is believed this part of the moon likely has craters that contain ice.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 10 May 2026
  • 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
  • One of the best examples of this phenomenon is the moon's largest impact feature, the South Pole-Aitken Basin.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 16 Oct. 2025

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