There Are 3 South Poles, So Which One Did Prince Harry Reach?

There's the geographic south pole, along with the magnetic south pole and the ceremonial south pole.

The group undertook the three-week trek to raise money and awareness for the U.K.-based Walking With the Wounded charity, which helps wounded armed forces members.

The British prince's group ended up at the geographic south pole, the southernmost point on Earth. If you stuck a pole all the way through the planet along its axis of rotation, it would poke out the bottom at the  geographic south pole.

But there's more than one south pole. In fact, there are three.

The geographic south pole is the place where all the lines of longitude converge in the Southern Hemisphere.

Its only marker is a stake with a sign honoring the first explorers to reach the geographic south pole—Roald Amundsen and Robert Scott—in 1911 and

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