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In this selfie of the South Pole, you can see how the “white continent” earned its nickname. Pixels are 1km resolution. It uses MODIS with an orthographic projection.
South Pole. Type: Locality. Description: one of the two points where the Earth's axis of rotation intersects its surface. Category: geographical pole. Location: Antarctica. View on OpenStreetMap. Latitude of center. -90° or 90° south. Longitude of center.
Not quite in the center of Antarctica is the South Pole, by convention it is the southernmost point on the surface of the Earth (wherever you would go from here you would go north, somehow). The South Pole is also one of the endpoints of Earth's rotation axis.
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The map of the world centered on Europe and Africa shows 30° latitude and longitude at 30° intervals, all continents, sovereign states, dependencies, oceans, seas, large islands, and island groups, countries with international borders, and their capital city.
The Canada–United States border is the longest international border in the world. The boundary (including boundaries in the Great Lakes, Atlantic, and Pacific coasts) is 8,891 km (5,525 mi) long. The land border has two sections: Canada's border with the contiguous United States to its south, and with the U.S. state of Alaska to its
Maximum elevation: 21,463 ft. The Geographic South Pole is presently located on the continent of Antarctica, although this has not been the case for all of Earth's history because of continental drift. It sits atop a featureless, barren, windswept and icy plateau at an altitude of 2,835 m (9,301 ft) above sea level, and is located about 1,300 ...
