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Country Southernmost point Latitude Antarctica: South Pole: 90°00′S: Antarctic Circle: 66°33′39"S South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (United Kingdom) Southern Thule: 59°42′S Chile: Águila Islet, Diego Ramírez Islands Cape Froward (mainland) 56°32′S 53°53′S Argentina: Southernmost point of Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego
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Peru's Huascarán (at 6,384.4 m or 20,946 ft) contends closely with Chimborazo, though the former is a mere 10 m (33 ft) closer to the Earth's centre. The fastest point on Earth or, in other words, the point farthest from Earth's rotational axis is the summit of Cayambe [13] in Ecuador, which rotates around Earth's axis at a speed of 1,675.89 ...
The southernmost point in the Commonwealth depends on whether the Antarctic claims of three of the Commonwealth's members – Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom – are counted. If so, the southernmost point is the South Pole (by definition, 90°S), where those three claims (and those of other, non-Commonwealth, countries) meet.
The Geographic South Pole is presently 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 m (9,301 ft) above sea level, and is located about 1,300 km (810 mi) from the nearest ...
Latitude Locations 90° N North Pole: 75° N: Arctic Ocean; Russia; northern Canada; Greenland: 60° N: Oslo, Norway; Helsinki, Finland; Stockholm, Sweden; major parts of Nordic countries in EU; St. Petersburg, Russia; southern Alaska United States; southern border of the Yukon and the Northwest territories in Canada; Shetland, UK (Scotland)
Southernmost point can be either: Águila Islet , Diego Ramírez Islands , Chile [ 1 ] ( 55°58′50″S 67°17′32″W / 55.980572161440634°S 67.29216529174083°W / -55.980572161440634; -67.29216529174083 ), or, if the South Sandwich Islands are included as part of South America
UNESCO world heritage site (natural) French Austral Land and Seas [ 69 ] 90°00′S 45°00′E / 90.000°S 45.000°E / -90.000; 45.000 ( Cueva de las Manos, Argentina ) (southernmost