pjm
Last time I checked boats couldn't make it to the south pole.
Last time I checked, neither do QF sightseeing flights.
They do fly over the South
Magnetic Pole, which Capt Fathom correctly asserts is now in open water, perfectly accessible by boat. I've been over it at about 10k and it, as you'd expect, doesn't look that much different to the ocean around it. It's novelty factor only.
That novelty aside, the QF trips sound like fun - I've not heard a bad word about them from a pax viewpoint, except one story about the time the met advice was ignored and there was a bit too much cloud around. That was many years ago apparently.
Lastly, it always amuses me the ignorant simplistic arguments of thickening sea ice must mean it's getting colder, thus this whole climate change thing is a fallacy. It's a lot more complicated that that - e.g. glaciers are flowing faster and faster disgorging more ice and thus the salinity of the water is changing leading to changes in the ice makeup. But that's something for another thread on JB.