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Sigma Octantis is a solitary [9] star in the Octans constellation that forms the pole star of the Southern Hemisphere. Its name is also written as σ Octantis , abbreviated as Sigma Oct or σ Oct , and it is officially named Polaris Australis ( / p oʊ ˈ l ɛər ɪ s ɔː ˈ s t r eɪ l ɪ s / ). [ 10 ]
Samuel Shenton was a sign writer, who lived with his wife Lillian in a ginger-brick terrace in suburban Dover. He was the son of an army sergeant major, born in Great Yarmouth, and by the 1920s claimed to have invented an airship that would rise into the atmosphere and remain stationary until the Earth spun westwards at 1,000 km/h (620 mph) to the desired destination at the same latitude.
The South Pole, also known as the Geographic South Pole or Terrestrial South Pole, is the point in the Southern Hemisphere where the Earth's axis of rotation meets its surface. It is called the True South Pole to distinguish from the Magnetic South Pole .
Samuel Birley Rowbotham (/ ˈ r oʊ b ɒ t ə m /; [1] 1816 – 23 December 1884, in London) was an English inventor, writer, utopian socialist [2] and flat Earther who wrote Zetetic Astronomy: Earth Not a Globe under the pseudonym Parallax. His work was originally published as a 16-page pamphlet (1849), and later expanded into a book (1865).
BQ Octantis is a fainter, magnitude 6.82 star located much closer to the South Pole (at less than a degree) than Sigma. In addition to having the current southern pole star of Earth, Octans also contains the southern pole star of the planet Saturn , which is the magnitude 4.3 Delta Octantis .
Admiral Peary claimed to have reached the North Pole on April 6, 1909. This would have invalidated Reed's premise that the poles cannot be reached. Although Peary's claim was, in its day, and continues to be controversial, on December 14, 1911, Roald Amundsen undisputedly reached the South Pole. Subsequent expeditions to and flights over the ...
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Left to right: Roald Amundsen, Helmer Hanssen, Sverre Hassel and Oscar Wisting after first reaching the South Pole on 16 December 1911. The Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration was an era in the exploration of the continent of Antarctica which began at the end of the 19th century, and ended after the First World War; the Shackleton–Rowett Expedition of 1921–1922 is often cited by historians ...