The Chilean president's schedule included visits to the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station and Chile's ... being the only landmass without a native population or independent government.

The team of four women - Ann Bancroft, Sunniva Sorby, Sue Giller, Anne Dal Vera - at the South Pole in 1993. On this day (January 14, 1993), four women arrived on skis at the South Pole.

Only two other world leaders had visited the South Pole before Boric ... it has no government and no indigenous population. Instead, the entire continent is set aside as a scientific preserve.