The south galactic pole is situated within the galaxy-laden constellation of Sculptor, which is home to one of the more oddly placed open clusters in the sky: Blanco 1.
Blanco 1 lies just 800 light-years away and a mere 10[degrees] from the south galactic pole. It is also simple to find, located virtually midway between the bright star Fomalhaut and 4th-magnitude Alpha ([alpha]) Sculptoris.
Interestingly, Blanco 1's northern analogue, Melotte 111 (the Coma Berenices Star Cluster), is found less than 2[degrees] from the north galactic pole. Having one large cluster situated near a galactic pole is curious; two is a very odd coincidence.
He speculated that some force, perhaps centrifugal, caused matter to aggregate near the
galactic poles, forming irresolvable nebulae but few stars.
Since the directions to the galactic poles are perpendicular to the galactic equator - an imprecise reference point - the poles themselves are inaccurate.
On this month's all-sky map on the following two pages, we've marked the position of the north galactic pole. Nearly overhead in Coma Berenices, this is where the Milky Way's axis of rotation projects north onto the celestial sphere.