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South Platte
The South Platte River is a major tributary of the Platte River that rises in the Colorado Rockies, flows through Denver, and joins the North Platte in Nebraska.
South Pole
The South Pole is Earth's southernmost point, at 90°S on the Antarctic ice sheet about 2,835 m above sea level. Reached by Amundsen on December 14, 1911, ahead of Scott; hosts the Amundsen–Scott research station.
South Pole Telescope
The South Pole Telescope (SPT) is a 10-meter microwave and millimeter-wavelength telescope at Amundsen–Scott Station at the geographic South Pole, operating since 2007. It surveys galaxy clusters and maps the cosmic microwave background.
South Pole Wall
The South Pole Wall is a filamentary structure of galaxies about 1.4 billion light-years long, discovered in 2020 behind the dust-obscured southern sky and comparable to the Sloan Great Wall at half the distance.
South Pole–Aitken basin
The South Pole–Aitken basin is the largest, deepest, and oldest impact basin on the Moon, spanning its far side with a diameter of about 2,500 km.
South Pyongan
South Pyongan Province (평안남도), a province of North Korea formed in 1896 from southern Pyongan; capital Pyongsong, area 12,350 sq km, about 17 percent of the national population.
South Quay Plaza
South Quay Plaza is a Foster + Partners-designed residential development of high-rise apartment towers at Canary Wharf on the Isle of Dogs, London, delivering about 1,284 homes, its 68-storey Hampton Tower reaching 215 m.
South Region
South Region: US Census region 3 (16 states plus DC, 132.7M residents, 39% of US) and Cameroon's Région du Sud (capital Ebolowa, 47,191 km2, 634,655 in 2005).
South Russian Workers' Union
The South Russian Workers' Union (Южнорусский союз рабочих), founded in Odessa in 1875 under Yevgeny Zaslavsky, was the first workers' revolutionary political organization in Russia.
South Sandwich Islands
South Sandwich Islands: uninhabited UK Overseas Territory volcanic arc (11 islands, ~350 km) in the South Atlantic, 1,600 km from South America and Antarctica; named by Cook in 1775; disputed by Argentina.
South Sandwich Plate
The South Sandwich Plate, also called the Sandwich plate, is a small tectonic plate in the southern Atlantic Ocean carrying the South Sandwich volcanic island arc.
South Sandwich Trench
The South Sandwich Trench is a 965 km oceanic subduction trench east of the South Sandwich Islands, containing the deepest points of the South Atlantic and Southern Ocean.
South Saqqara Stone
The South Saqqara Stone is a 6th Dynasty Egyptian royal annals inscription on a basalt slab, found in 1932–33 in Pepi II's pyramid complex at South Saqqara.
South Saskatchewan
South Saskatchewan River, formed by the Bow and Oldman rivers in Alberta, flows through Lake Diefenbaker and past Saskatoon to join the North Saskatchewan; its basin covers 172,900 km2 and supplies most of Saskatchewan's drinking water.
South Scotia Ridge
South Scotia Ridge (also South Orkney Ridge): submerged continental-fragment ridge forming the Scotia–Antarctic left-lateral transform plate boundary, southern margin of the Scotia Arc, with two branches, four deeps, and Late Cretaceous–Paleogene pre-translation arc magmatism.
South Sea Company
The South Sea Company was a British joint-stock company founded in 1711 by Robert Harley to consolidate government debt; its 1720 scheme produced the South Sea Bubble.
South Seas Government
The South Seas Government (南洋庁, Nan'yō-chō) was the Japanese civil administration of the South Seas Mandate, governing Japan's former German-held islands in Micronesia from 1922 until 1945.
South Seas Mandate (南洋群島)
The South Seas Mandate (Nanyo-Gunto) was the League of Nations Class C mandate over former German Pacific islands north of the equator, granted to Japan in 1920, administered by the Nanyo-cho from 1922, retained after Japan's 1935 League withdrawal, and succeeded in 1947 by the US-administered Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.
South Shetland Islands
South Shetland Islands: Antarctic archipelago north of the Antarctic Peninsula across the Bransfield Strait, at 62–63°S. Discovered by William Smith in 1819; nine major islands including King George, Livingston and volcanic Deception Island.
South Shields
South Shields is a coastal town in Tyne and Wear, England, at the mouth of the River Tyne; Roman Arbeia, medieval Caer Urfa, a coal, salt and shipbuilding town of about 73,000 people, home of Catherine Cookson and the Shields Ferry.
South Shore (Massachusetts)
The South Shore (Massachusetts) is the coastal region between Boston and the Cape Cod Canal, including Hull, Scituate, Marshfield, Duxbury, and Plymouth; known for Plymouth Colony history, the Irish Riviera, and the Route 3 corridor.
South Shore, Chicago
South Shore is Chicago community area 43, a lakefront South Side neighborhood from 67th to 79th Street, annexed in 1889, transformed from a middle-class white enclave to a predominantly Black community between 1950 and 1980.
South Side (TV series)
South Side is an American sitcom created by Bashir Salahuddin, Diallo Riddle, and Sultan Salahuddin, set and shot in Englewood, Chicago, around a Rent-T-Own store. Premiered July 24, 2019 on Comedy Central, later moved to HBO Max for three seasons.
South Side Park
South Side Park (Schorling Park), Chicago wooden ballpark at 39th and Princeton/Wentworth; first American League game April 24, 1901; White Sox home 1901-10, American Giants 1911-40; burned 1940, site now Wentworth Gardens.
South Side, Chicago
South Side, Chicago: largest of the city's three traditional sides, shaped by steel and meatpacking industry, the Great Migration, the Black Belt, and the Obama Presidential Center.
South Sister
South Sister, highest peak of the Three Sisters volcano cluster in the Oregon Cascades at 3,157 m, a silicic stratovolcano built 50,000 to 2,000 years ago with ongoing uplift west of its summit.
South Slavic epic poetry
South Slavic epic poetry is a living oral tradition of narrative song sung by bards called guslari to the gusle, a stringed instrument, especially among Serbs, Montenegrins, and Bosnian Muslims.
South Slavic languages
South Slavic languages: the Balkan branch of Slavic, with seven official standards (Slovene, Croatian, Bosnian, Montenegrin, Serbian, Macedonian, Bulgarian), split into West and East subgroups, shaped by Balkan contact features.
South Slavs
South Slavs: the Slavic peoples of the Balkans, including Slovenes, Croats, Bosniaks, Serbs, Montenegrins, Macedonians, and Bulgarians; settled the peninsula in the 6th and 7th centuries.
South Slope Spring
South Slope Spring: natural spring on the south slope of the Acropolis of Athens, sacred to the nymphs and Pan, later the South Slope Spring House at the western end of the Asklepieion, with a late 6th-century BC polygonal reservoir.