The coldest places on the planet

Even though summer just started, the heat already have some annoying, so Women's Magazine invites you to a refreshing swim in the coldest places on the planet.



Station Vostok in Antarctica


This place is considered to be the coldest on the planet. There was registered the lowest air temperature: -89, 2°C in July 1983. Temperature above -21°C was not observed. But even such extreme conditions do not prevent scientists all year round to be on the "East".





Station "pole of inaccessibility" in Antarctica


The station was located on the flat surface of the ice plateau to the South of Enderby Land. The distance to the South pole - 463 kilometers. Height above sea level is 3718 meters, the thickness of the ice in the station area - 2980 meters. Natural conditions similar to the conditions the station "Vostok". The average annual air temperature is about -57°C.





The Oymyakon, Russia


The Oymyakon village (town rural type) in Oymyakon ulus Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) on the river Indigirka.




Known as the cold pole of the Northern hemisphere and the coldest town in the world (sometimes this title is given to the village of Ust-Nera). The average January temperature is -50, 0 C, and the coldest days drops to -68 degrees C. The lowest temperature -71, 2 C in these places was recorded in 1926.





Greenland


Greenland, as you know, the coldest place in the Western hemisphere. January 9, 1954, the temperature was -66°C which was then stored on ICE North research station in the middle of the Greenland ice sheet.

Snag Yukon, Canada


February 3, 1947, in a small village in the Yukon, registered the lowest temperature ever recorded in North America: -63°C. This village was founded during the gold rush of the Klondike in the late 1800's. The village is located in the valley South of beaver Creek.

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