SOUTH POLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does South Pole mean? 

• SOUTH POLE (noun)
  The noun SOUTH POLE has 1 sense:

1. the southernmost point of the Earth's axis

  Familiarity information: SOUTH POLE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOUTH POLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The southernmost point of the Earth's axis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

pole (one of two antipodal points where the Earth's axis of rotation intersects the Earth's surface)

Holonyms ("South Pole" is a part of...):

Antarctic continent; Antarctica (an extremely cold continent at the south pole almost entirely below the Antarctic Circle; covered by an ice cap up to 13,000 feet deep)

Derivation:

south-polar (at or near the south pole)

 Context examples 

Cassini found that Enceladus sprays towering, geyser-like jets of water vapor and icy particles, including simple organics, from warm fractures near its south pole.

(Powering Saturn's Active Ocean Moon, NASA)

For several years after Cassini's 2004 arrival in the Saturn system, scientists frequently observed cloud activity near Titan's south pole, which was experiencing late summer at the time.

(Cassini tracks clouds developing over a Titan sea, NASA)

Winter is taking a grip on Titan's southern hemisphere, and a strong, whirling atmospheric circulation pattern — a vortex — has developed in the upper atmosphere over the south pole.

(Cassini Sees Dramatic Seasonal Changes on Titan, NASA)

During Titan's southern summer, Cassini observed cloud activity over the south pole.

(Cassini's Final View of Titan's Northern Lakes and Seas, NASA)

Researchers with NASA’s Cassini mission found evidence of a toxic hybrid ice in a wispy cloud high above the south pole of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan.

(NASA Team Finds Noxious Ice Cloud on Saturn’s Moon Titan, NASA)

Earth has its own polar stratospheric clouds, which typically form above the North Pole and South Pole between 49,000 and 82,000 feet (15 to 25 kilometers) — well above cruising altitude for airplanes.

(NASA Finds Methane Ice Cloud in Titan's Stratosphere, NASA)

That may be related to the surprising direction of its measured drift: toward the south pole, instead of northward toward the equator.

(Hubble Sees Neptune's Mysterious Shrinking Storm, NASA)

A new paper published this week suggests that liquid water may be sitting under a layer of ice at Mars' south pole.

(Possible Subsurface Lake near Martian South Pole, NASA)

Jupiter's south pole has a new cyclone.

(NASA's Juno Navigators Enable Jupiter Cyclone Discovery, NASA)

The Earth passed another unfortunate milestone May 23 when carbon dioxide surpassed 400 parts per million (ppm) at the South Pole for the first time in 4 million years.

(South Pole is last place on Earth to pass global warming milestone, NOAA)