Once you've reached the south pole, you can only move away from the pole. And since you are moving away from the south pole you can't be traveling south.
Aha! But you CAN travel south from the south pole. It's just that you will need a space ship to do it. We do not have two poles, called 'north' and 'south'. The pole is one line that continues indefinitely in a straight line, up from both 'poles' on the globe, as we call them for convenience. Hop in your ship, set your course along the pole, and fly south for ever.
At the South Pole, every direction is north. That's because the South Pole is located at the southernmost point on Earth, and all lines of longitude meet there. This means that no matter which way you go from the South Pole, you are always travelling north.
If you are standing precisely at the South pole, you can only travel north.
You travel south.
They fly.
North of course! There is no other way to travel.
You are moving closer to the South Pole.
north pole to south pole and back
If you could travel in a straight line from Rio, you would travel about 3,889 miles to the South Pole.
If you travel along a line of longitude from the South Pole, you would travel directly northwards.
If you could travel in a straight line form San Francisco, California to the South Pole, you would travel about 8,600 miles.
Only south!
South.