Coetzee-Ashihara Station (Eastern Manifest Destiny)

The Coetzee-Ashihara Antarctic Research Station (Afrikaans: Coetzee-Ashihara Antarkitiese Navorsingsstasie, Japanese: コーツィー芦原研究基地 Kōtsuii Ashihara Kenkyū Kichi) is a South African-Japanese scientific research station located at the Geographic South Pole in Antarctica, the southernmost continent on Earth. It was named after two explorers, Pieter Coetzee and Ashihara Yoshiharu, who were the first to reach the South Pole.