page_title: Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station
section_title: Structures
hierarchical_section_title: Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station / Structures
caption_attribution_description: Geographic Southpole
context_page_description: The Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station is a United States scientific research station at the South Pole, the southernmost place on the Earth. The station is located on the high plateau of Antarctica at an elevation of 2,835 metres above sea level and is administered by the Division of Polar Programs within the National Science Foundation under the United States Antarctic Program. It is named in honor of Norwegian Roald Amundsen and Englishman Robert F. Scott, who led separate teams that raced to become the first to the South Pole in the early 1900s.
  The original Amundsen–Scott Station was built by Navy Seabees for the Federal government of the United States during November 1956, as a part of its commitment to the scientific goals of the International Geophysical Year, an international effort lasting from January 1957 through June 1958, to study, among other things, the geophysics of the polar regions of Earth.
  Before November 1956, there was no permanent human structure at the South Pole, and practically no human presence in the interior of Antarctica at all. The few scientific stations in Antarctica were located near its seacoast.
caption: Geographic South Pole
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