Antarctic Polen.
/anˌtɑːktɪk ˈpəʊl/, /anˌtɑːtɪk ˈpəʊl/, U.S. /ænˌ(t)ɑrktɪk ˈpoʊl/; see also Antarctic adj. and n. 1. The South Pole of the earth. See also pole antarctic n.
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1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse f. 159 You call the North Pole, the furdest North poynt or not: and th' Antarctick Pole the South poynte.
1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 12 The last of Iune we raised the Antarticke Pole.
1659 G. Everard Panacea 2 Those of Pern call it Petum, so do almost all the people that live toward the Antartick-Pole.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Crosier, in Astronomy, four Stars, in form of a Cross; by help whereof, those who sail in the Southern Hemisphere find the Antarctick Pole.
1777 W. Robertson Hist. Amer. I. 453 It is probable that an open sea stretches to the Antartic pole.
1822 tr. C. Malte-Brun Universal Geogr. I. i. 7 The opposite pole is named the South pole, or antarctic pole.
1880 A. R. Wallace Island Life viii. 156 A similar ice-cap is..believed to exist on the Antarctic pole at the present day.
1905 H. R. Mill Siege South Pole ii. 25 A third world, if such existed, must be looked for in the vast unknown area about the Antarctic pole.
2007 D. R. Rothwell & S. V. Scott in L. K. Kriwoken et al. Looking South ii. 9 Alexander VI gave..all territory from the Arctic pole to the Antarctic pole west of a meridian 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde Islands.
2. Astronomy. The south celestial pole. See also pole antarctic n. Now chiefly historical.
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the world > the universe > celestial sphere > [noun] > pole > south pole
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?1574 W. Bourne Regiment for Sea i. sig. A.iv The artick pole of the Zodiack, or rather the Ecliptick, and the Antartick pole of the Zodiack.
1754 J. Hill Urania at Celestial Circle These are fixed points therefore in the heavens, under the names the arctic and antarctic pole, and sometimes under the names of the north and south pole, though that less properly, because it confounds them with those of the earth.
1848 Sidereal Messenger 1 No. 2 189/2 For the remaining two-tenths, about the celestial antarctic pole we must add eight hundred and forty-four stars.
1908 H. R. Mill et al. Siege of South Pole i. 4 If the new form of the Earth could be entertained by reasonable people there was no reason why there should not be another Habitable World under the Antarctic pole of the heavens to balance that which lay under the Arctic pole.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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