South Pole
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- noun
- /saʊθ poʊl/
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- From 1991 to 1993, we operated a suite of atmospheric electricity instruments at South Pole Station.
- South Pole station
- South Pole telescope
- reached the South Pole
And that ice goes hundreds of miles with no land to the South Pole.
- And that ice goes hundreds of miles with no land to the South Pole.
- The Mercator projection, you know, distorts so that small objects toward the North and South pole look very big on the projection.
- Prime Meridian, the imaginary vertical line running from north to South Pole.
- The journey involves going the South Pole station is run in the US by by the National Science Foundation.
- And it was it was the Scott journey where he ended up going to the South Pole and dying on the way back.
- And that's beyond the pole on the other side of the South Pole from middle America.
- We're S southeast of Australia and below us is South Pole.
- And now let's say you collapse that sphere so that the North Pole and the South Pole meet at the equator.
- There is nowhere on earth besides maybe the North and South Pole that is immune to blight spores.
- So remember we had a sphere of the North Pole and we took all these shortest paths from the North Pole to the South Pole, all of those lines.
- Because people are sending us videos from South Sea islands and from Sakhalin, north of Russia, and from the South Pole and the North Pole.
Examples
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We're in business at the South Pole, searching for neutrinos zipping through Earth.
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After all, we are just 840 miles from the South Pole.
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There is no hole in the ice at the South Pole station.
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We're not going to the South Pole, Mom.
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You are going to the South Pole.
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Welcome to the South Pole.
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Is that the North Pole or the South Pole?
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Penguins live in the South Pole, not the North Pole.
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I hear sir Edmund Hillary is planning an attempt on the South Pole.
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On December 12th, he reached the South Pole, a lonely journey averaging fifteen to twenty miles a day.
Surface Forms
Morphology
South + pole
The meaning is directly compositional: 'South' specifies the direction/side and 'pole' denotes one of the two axis points, so a learner who knows both constituents can infer 'the southern pole' without extra knowledge. This is a common geographic noun phrase pattern found across many languages, making it immediately transparent to B1 learners.
Etymology
South Pole comes from old mapmakers who called the Earth's top and bottom points Poles and added South to show the bottom side. So South Pole means the single point at the very south, the bottom of the Earth, where the line it spins around meets the ground.