Temperatures are so cold that bone-chilling ice coats the rocky plateau underneath. Temperature: The South Pole is significantly colder than the North Pole. Average temperatures at the South Pole ...

Byrd has started upon his flight for the South Pole, which, if it succeeds ... which the plane must climb before continuing its journey over a plateau 10,000 feet above sea level.

No woman is known to have voyaged to Antarctica. Believing that many a U. S. and British woman wants to go there, Lieut.-Commander J. R. Stenhouse announced in London last week that he will make ...

The plateau is high enough to receive perpetual ... feet (6,000 m), then descends 16,400 feet (5,000 m) toward the south pole. Nobile Rim 1: This site lies on Nobile Crater’s southwestern ...

a plateau that lies about 100 miles (160 kilometers) from the south pole. But photographs delivered by the lander before it powered down confirmed the vehicle is lying on its side. “With the ...