Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, and the ice sheet it is built on, are drifting about 30 feet per year past the geographic South Pole.
The Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station recorded its all-time record high temperature of 9.9 degrees Fahrenheit above zero on Dec. 25.
That was a heatwave compared to the station’s record low of minus 117 degrees in 1982.
The previous all-time record high was plus 7.5 degrees on Dec. 12, 1978.
Records at the South Pole go back to 1957, when the first permanent structure was erected there.
Photo: National Science Foundation