I'd say it was in the North Pole, because the indicator for the South Pole that the Avatar had returned was...

The uh, Avatar himself...

-_-

The South Pole is way too underdeveloped to have a temple. It would have been destroyed along with everything else.

Logic and common sense beats overanalysis.

Ack, I have got to stay away from this place. (goes back to studying)

no it is in the north pole because the north pole is more civilisized than the south pole. the south pole can't even make an igloo that you can appriciate so somebody please explain how can the south pole make a gorgeous shrine with a crystal on top? see?????? their tribe's economy is very low i assume

thanks.......

I think there is an animation error.

At the poles, it is ~6 months of day, and ~6 months of night. When the gaang was at the North Pole, the days flashed by instead of staying night or day for six months. Proof: The kids first reached the Norht Pole in daylight, later on at the dinner, it was night. Even more later on, it was day again. The gaang would have had to stay a couple of years at the North Pole in order to accomplish that, and it is clear in the series that they traveled the world for only a few months (a year tops).

Sorry if that made no sense, I stink at explaining

Doll, no one understands really what you are saying. If you are going to criticize someone's math you ought to learn how to write clearly. anywho!

there's no concrete evidence to which side of the world it was on. The temple's going to be pretty old (Older than 100 years, certainly) and by our buddy, Kyoshi's, *Ahem* dictation, we know that the southern water tribe's civilization was in good shape prior to 100 years ago. I'm willing to bet the temple was taken care of during the raids had it been the south pole.

But considering the logic of storytelling it is probably somewhere in the north pole as the south pole would already know that the avatar was alive.... since he was found there.