Between Somnath (Gujarat) India and south pole there is only sea, no land, what is the distance between two?

Question

Between Somnath (Gujarat) India and south pole there is only sea, no land, what is the distance between two?

Answer 1

Somanath is almost on the tropic of Cancer. From there if you start on a ship setting course due south & next landfall is Antarctic coast that on Indian Ocean is almost on the Antarctic circle. So, roughly the distance is a 'quadrant (90 degrees)' that translates to 5400 nautical miles (6210 st. miles or 9936 km). From this point South Pole is (as I stated already) is another 23.45 dgrees of arc that is 1407 nautical miles (1618 st.miles or 2605 km).

Answer 2

Get a globe and a string to measure the distance, but in the meantime, what about all that land between the edge of the Antarctic continent and the south pole?