When you stand at the geographic South Pole all lines of longitude converge at that exact point so you are literally standing in all 24 time zones. You can step from today into yesterday and from yesterday back into tomorrow. Time traveling!
The geographic South Pole is at 9300 feet?!? I had no idea it was that high. That's 2k feet higher than the tallest peak in Australia. And it's almost all ice!
From wiki:
The Geographic South Pole is located on the continent of Antarctica (although this has not been the case for all of Earth's history because of continental drift). It sits atop a featureless, barren, windswept and icy plateau at an altitude of 2,835 metres (9,301 ft) above sea level, and is located about 1,300 km (800 mi) from the nearest open sea at Bay of Whales. The ice is estimated to be about 2,700 metres (9,000 ft) thick at the Pole, so the land surface under the ice sheet is actually near sea level.
ItsElectric120 on December 21st, 2019 at 02:54 UTC »
If I run in circles at the pole, does that make me a time traveler?
bobdanderson on December 21st, 2019 at 03:06 UTC »
There’s also no East or West, only North
Nonplussed2 on December 21st, 2019 at 03:18 UTC »
The geographic South Pole is at 9300 feet?!? I had no idea it was that high. That's 2k feet higher than the tallest peak in Australia. And it's almost all ice!
From wiki:
The Geographic South Pole is located on the continent of Antarctica (although this has not been the case for all of Earth's history because of continental drift). It sits atop a featureless, barren, windswept and icy plateau at an altitude of 2,835 metres (9,301 ft) above sea level, and is located about 1,300 km (800 mi) from the nearest open sea at Bay of Whales. The ice is estimated to be about 2,700 metres (9,000 ft) thick at the Pole, so the land surface under the ice sheet is actually near sea level.