10 Coldest Places on Earth! |
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- Social interactions and entertainment - 5 - 21 Aug 22 00:01
Snag, Yukon, CanadaTemperature: -62.7°C in 1947.. Lying in a bowl-shaped valley in Yukon, Canada, Snag is a now-abandoned village where a record low temperature was recorded during an unusual winter in the 1940s. The extreme cold caused locals to report their breath freezing mid-air as they exhaled and falling to the ground as a white dust. Stranger still, they found that sounds carried much further in the cold dense air, with voices being heard several miles from their source.
North Ice, GreenlandTemperature: -66.1°C in 1954. Established by the British North Greeland Expedition in 1952, this research station was originally reached on dog sleds before military aircraft dropped supplies and instruments for a team of explorers and scientists to use. The temperature reading taken in 1954 was, at the time, the coldest ever recorded in the northern hemisphere.
Oymyakon, RussiaTemperature: -67.8°C in 1933. Sometimes referred to as the coldest permanently inhabited settlement on Earth, we’d love to hear estate agents try to sell this corner of rural Russia. Home to less than 1,000 people, it’s situated between two valleys, which trap cold winds between them, intensifying the conditions.
Frozen throughout the winter, apparently local schools only close when temperatures dip below -55°C.
Klinck research station, GreenlandTemperature: -69.4°C in 1991. Greenland, the largest island in the world, is sparsely populated, owing to a gigantic ice sheet that covers much of its land. Setting up weather stations in this inhospitable climate involves intrepid scientists traversing the terrain on snow mobiles with their instruments in toe.
Verkhoyansk, RussiaTemperature: -69.8°C in 1892. Home to around 1,000 people, this Russian town sits within the Arctic Circle and is one of the places considered the northern ‘Pole of Cold’, where the coldest temperatures have ever been recorded in the northern hemisphere.
Denali, AlaskaTemperature: -73.8°C in 1950 and 1969. The highest mountain peak in North America is a spectacular, imposing sight, towering more than 6,000m above sea level. It’s also a climber’s paradise, but you’ll need an exceptional base layer if you’re thinking about an ascent. A weather station placed close to the summit recorded the coldest temperature on record in the United States in 2003: a frosty -73.8°C.
Dome Argus, Antarctic PlateauTemperature: -82.5°C in 2005. How low can we go? Scientists believe we might find out at this site. Situated close to the current record-holder Dome Fuji, a throne-stealing reading has not yet been made at Dome Argus but researchers speculate that a nearby ridge is home to the coldest natural conditions on Earth.
Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, AntarcticaTemperature: -82.8°C in 1982. The people who live and work at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station see only one sunrise and one sunset a year, so perhaps it’s not surprising that it’s the site of some of the coldest temperatures ever recorded. Situated high on the Antarctic plateau, the station sits close to 3,000m above sea level. Even a summer’s day here is unlikely to climb much higher than -12°C.
Vostok Research Station, AntarcticaTemperature: -89.2°C in 1983. One of the coldest places on Earth is, weirdly, also one of the sunniest. In the month of December, the Vostok Research Station in Antarctica enjoys more than 22 hours of sunlight hours. Conversely, in the polar night, there are precisely zero hours of sunlight and Vostok records the lowest mean annual temperature of any weather station on the planet.

Dome Fuji, Antarctica
Temperature: -93.2°C in 2010. In 2010, the Landsat 8 satellite pointed its instruments at a high ridge on the East Antarctic ice sheet and confirmed what scientists had expected about the local climate: chilly. Extremely chilly. Recording a reading of -92.3°C, this dry, cold desert was declared the coldest place on Earth, beating the previous record at the Vostok station (see below), which had stood since 1983.
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21 Aug 22 09:01
BikkinMan is the warmest place to hide.
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