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The South Pole:

The South Pole

The Greenwich Meridian, Zero Line of Longitude comes to journey's end

The Equator
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Across the icy Antarctica to:

We found two Golden Shellbacks who have also been to the South Pole
(we've yet to find one that made the North Pole too!!!)

Emerald Shellback Phil Toth at the South Pole

And here's another Emerald Shellback Rusty Eichblatt head over heels at being at the foot of the World.

• Maohai Huang has put together a collection of fascinating pages and photos about the South Pole entitled .   It includes information on  and and details of
• What is the temperature at the South Pole?   Do penguins live there?    How deep is the snow?
  Answers to these and other questions is .

• : Ozone monitoring by NOAA (The Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory (CMDL) of the , in Boulder, Colorado) and its predecessors at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station goes back to 1961
  

• The includes an article entitles "A HISTORY OF SOUTH POLE EXPLORATION" by Dr. Robert Lutes, The physician at the Amundsen-Scott Station
• Meanwhile at the South Pole of our nearest neighbour; the discovery of water on the moon is featured in Ice at the
• The best site on the South Pole is at where scientists from the Center for Astrophysical Research in Antarctica have put together a comprehensive set of pages.  Including: Live ; The current ; and a current (The Greenwich Meridian is the line of 0 degrees heading towards the bottom right-hand corner of the picture).
• And yes they operate GMT (or UTC) at the Pole! (Although you can use any of the 24 time zones; just move one step in the right direction!
• : Beginning on March 15, 1999, an international team of twelve young adults from as many countries, representing the six continents, will head south. They will trek all around the world, starting from the North Pole, cross all six continents, and re-unite in Antarctica. The will carry the hopes and vows -- pledges and gifts -- of people of all ages. At 12:01 a.m. on January 1st, 2000, the team will greet the new "millennium" at the International Date Line at the South Pole.

The end of the Prime Meridian and the end of our journey!

Not quite - Now you can head off into space) courtesy of the and look down at the Ozone depletion at the (beware large image file but worth the wait!)

The journey continues up the International Date Line back towards the North Pole

Thank you for Surfing The Meridian Line!