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Definition of South Pole

1. Noun. The southernmost point of the Earth's axis.

Definition of South Pole

1. Proper noun. (geography) The southernmost point on Earth; that point in Antarctica where Earth's axis of rotation passes through Earth's surface. ¹

2. Proper noun. (geography) Earth's magnetic south pole. ¹

3. Proper noun. (geography) Earth's geomagnetic south pole. ¹

4. Noun. The southernmost point on celestial bodies other than Earth. ¹

5. Noun. The negative pole of a magnetic dipole that seeks geographic south. ¹

6. Noun. (alternative form of South Pole) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

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Literary usage of South Pole

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1902)
"This point is called the magnetic south pole of the Earth. These two magnetic poles are also remarkable from the fact that a so-called magnetic ..."

2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1865)
"If the magnet is turned into the opposite direction, so as to bring its south pole where the north pole was before, the induced magnetism of the iron bar is ..."

3. Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1865)
"If the magnet is turned into the opposite direction, so as to bring its south pole where the north pole was before, the induced magnetism of the iron bar is ..."

4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"All the phenomena of celestial rotation continue unchanged, except that towards the south many new stars have come into view. Moreover, the south pole of ..."

5. The Book of History: A History of All Nations from the Earliest Times to the by James Bryce Bryce, Holland Thompson, William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1915)
"Forestalled by Peary in the north, Amundsen then decided to turn his attention to the South Pole, and to outrun, if possible, Captain Scott, who had already ..."

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