There’s a new Geographic South Pole Marker, a pretty shiny metal pole that marks the actual geographic pole. Since the ice sheet that covers Antarctica moves, the previous marker moves along ...

The geographical South Pole is replaced every year on Jan. 1. When the marker is removed, it is placed ina display cabinet in the Antarctic station for 20 to 30 years.

Editor's Note: John Bauhs, a Portage High School graduate and chef to 250 scientists and workers at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica, has agreed to update Daily Register ...

The South Pole marker changes every year and a ceremony is hosted on New Year's Day. Leighton, who has been here before Fisher and Suedhoff, ...

He says he hopes to work with the outpost’s machinist to create next year’s official South Pole marker out of a piece of Michigan history! Brendan Fisher and Troy Leighton in Antarctica.

The marker shows the position of the planets as viewed from the South Pole on Jan 1, 2013. There are seven brass planets displayed on a copper inlay. In the very center is a small copper star that ...

The sign, which states the distance from the Mackinac Bridge to the South Pole -- 9,394 miles ... hoping to use it to help “create next year’s official South Pole marker. ...

ITHACA, N.Y. — Stephen Parshley, a research support engineer in Cornell University’s astronomy department, has plans to leave his mark on the world. Literally. The plans are Parshley&#8… ...

Ceremonial marker at the geographic South Pole. Jim Clash. ... Hey, we had made it to the South Pole, where explorers Roald Amundsen and Robert Scott had first ventured, in 1911 and 1912, ...

SOUTH POLE (WPBN/WGTU) -- Since the Mackinac Bridge Authority started selling pieces of the original deck grating as it's replaced, it's safe to say that pieces have made their way to many spots ...