📡 South Pole Telescope

Antarctica · Antarctica · 89.99°S, 45.00°W

Quick facts

Country	Antarctica
Continent / region	Antarctica
Coordinates (approx.)	89.99°S, 45.00°W · view on map
Distance to the equator	10,018 km south of it
Solar time	UTC-3 — read from longitude, so it is the sky's clock rather than the government's
Sun today	The sun does not set here today — polar day at 90.0° latitude.

South Pole Telescope is located in Antarctica, in Antarctica.

Closest radio telescopes

Arcminute Cosmology Bolometer Array Receiver — 0.2 km away
QUaD — 0.2 km away
Antarctic Submillimeter Telescope and Remote Observatory — 0.6 km away
BICEP and Keck Array — 1.2 km away
TopHat (telescope) — 540 km away

Straight-line distances on a sphere, computed from the coordinates. A road would be longer.

More radio telescopes in Antarctica

Antarctic Submillimeter Telescope and Remote Observatory · Arcminute Cosmology Bolometer Array Receiver · BICEP and Keck Array · QUaD · TopHat (telescope).

Coordinates approximate. Introduction & image: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), cached 30 days; the page renders even if the feed is momentarily unreachable.

Radio Telescopes — tukuk.org/radio-telescopes

📡 All radio telescopes

Profiles of radio telescopes — where each dish or antenna array stands, which country runs it, and a plain-English introduction.

🌍 Africa radio telescopes

3 radio telescopes across Africa.

🌍 Americas radio telescopes

45 radio telescopes across Americas.

🌍 Antarctica radio telescopes

6 radio telescopes across Antarctica.

🌍 Asia radio telescopes

8 radio telescopes across Asia.

🌍 Europe radio telescopes

33 radio telescopes across Europe.

🌍 Oceania radio telescopes

9 radio telescopes across Oceania.