South Pole Warming Up. 18 June 1947. 70 years ago it was getting so warm we were going to inhabit the South Pole. The ice will melt and never form again.
South Pole Warming Up. (1906, July 31). Clarence and Richmond Examiner (Grafton, NSW : 1889 – 1915), p. 6. Retrieved December 2, 2019, from
Since the first visit to the ice cap of the south pole was made, some fifty years ago, there has been a steady recession of the belt of some thirty miles, and it is argued that in the course of
time it will be possible to make approach to the pole itself and that the land in that vicinity may even become inhabited.
It is now believed that the ice cap is but the remains of the glacial period and that when the ice shall finally have melted it will not form again, the waters then being subject to only such ice formations as occur in any sea in wintry weather.