South Pole

See also: south pole, southpole, and Southpole

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌsaʊθ ˈpəʊl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌsaʊθ ˈpoʊl/

Proper noun

South Pole

2. (geography) The Geographic South Pole or Terrestrial South Pole; the point which south is oriented towards, and therefore the southernmost point on Earth (having a latitude of -90°).
4. (geography) The Magnetic South Pole of Earth.
5. (geography) The Geomagnetic South Pole of Earth.

Coordinate terms

• North Pole

Translations

southernmost point on Earth

• Afrikaans: Suidpool (af)
• Albanian: Poli i Jugut
• Amharic: ደቡብ ዋልታ (däbub walta)
• Arabic: اَلْقُطْب اَلْجَنُوبِيّ m (al-quṭb al-janūbiyy)
• Armenian: Հարավային բևեռ (Haravayin beweṙ)
• Azerbaijani: cənub qütbü
• Basque: hegoburua
• Belarusian: Паўднё́вы по́люс m (Pawdnjóvy póljus)
• Bengali: দক্ষিণ মেরু (bn) (dokkhin meru)
• Breton: pennahel ar Su m
• Bulgarian: Ю́жен по́люс m (Júžen póljus)
• Burmese: တောင်ဝင်ရိုးစွန်း (taung-wang-rui:cwan:)
• Catalan: pol Sud m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 南極 / 南极 (zh) (Nánjí)

• Czech: jižní pól m
• Danish: sydpolen c
• Dutch: Zuidpool (nl) m
• Esperanto: Suda poluso
• Estonian: lõunapoolus
• Finnish: etelänapa (fi)
• French: pôle Sud (fr) m
• Frisian:

  West Frisian: Súdpoal

• Galician: Polo Sur m
• Georgian: სამხრეთი პოლუსი (samxreti ṗolusi)
• German: Südpol (de) m
• Greek: Νότιος Πόλος (el) m (Nótios Pólos)
• Hawaiian: Wēlau Hema
• Hebrew: הקוטב הדרומי m (hákotev hadromí)
• Hindi: दक्षिणी ध्रुव m (dakṣiṇī dhruv)
• Hungarian: Déli-sark (hu)
• Icelandic: suðurheimskaut (is) n, suðurskaut n, suðurpóll (is) m
• Indonesian: Kutub Selatan
• Interlingua: polo sud
• Irish: Pol Theas m, Mol Theas m
• Italian: polo sud m
• Japanese: 南極 (ja) (なんきょく, nankyoku)
• Kazakh: Оңтүстік полюс (Oñtüstık polüs)
• Khmer: ប៉ូល​ទិសខាងត្បូង (poul-tɨhkhaangtboung)
• Korean: 남극(南極) (ko) (namgeuk)
• Latvian: Dienvidpols m
• Lithuanian: Pietų ašigalis m
• Macedonian: Јужен пол m (Južen pol)
• Malay: Kutub Janubi, Kutub Selatan (ms)
• Malayalam: ദക്ഷിണധ്രുവം (ml) (dakṣiṇadhruvaṁ)
• Manx: Ard y Jiass m
• Marathi: दक्षिण ध्रुव (dakṣiṇ dhruv)
• Nepali: दक्षिणी ध्रुव (dakṣiṇī dhruv)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Sydpolen m

  Nynorsk: Sørpolen m

• Occitan: pòl Sud m
• Persian: قطب جنوب (qotb jonub)
• Polish: biegun południowy m
• Portuguese: Polo Sul m
• Punjabi: ਦੱਖਣੀ ਧਰੁਵ (dakkhaṇī dharuv)
• Romanian: Polul Sud m
• Russian: Ю́жный по́люс (ru) m (Júžnyj póljus)
• Scottish Gaelic: Pòla a Deas m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Јужни пол m

  Latin: Južni pol m

• Slovak: južný pól m
• Slovene: Južni tečaj m, Južni pol m
• Somali: Cirifka Koonfur
• Spanish: polo Sur m
• Swedish: sydpolen (sv) c
• Tagalog: timugang taluktok
• Tamil: தென் துருவம் (teṉ turuvam)
• Telugu: దక్షిణం ధ్రువం (dakṣiṇaṁ dhruvaṁ)
• Thai: ขั้วโลกใต้ (th) (kûua-lôok-dtâai)
• Turkish: Güney Kutbu (tr)
• Ukrainian: Півде́нний по́люс m (Pivdénnyj póljus)
• Uyghur: جەنۇبىي قۇتۇپ (jenubiy qutup)
• Vietnamese: Nam Cực
• Welsh: Pegwn y De (cy) m
• Yiddish: דרום פּאָלוס m (dorem polus)

Further reading

• Seltzer, Leon E., editor (1952), “South Pole”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1807, column 1
• “South Pole”, in The International Geographic Encyclopedia and Atlas, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1979, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 728, column 1

Anagrams

• spouthole