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TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The climate crisis has snowballed into worldwide peril, defacing even the world’s long-standing features like Mount Fiji’s snow cap. A series of anomalous weather phenomena and increasingly extreme hot spells around the world exacerbate the fear of climate change. But worry not, some of the coldest places on Earth are not going anywhere.
Let’s explore the world's bone chilling places with record-breaking low temperatures, as cited from New Scientist.
10 Coldest Places on Earth
At blistering minus 94 degrees Celsius, these coldest places on earth below sit at the top of the most outlandish holiday list.
1. Eastern Antarctic Plateau, Antarctic (-94°C)
The Eastern Antarctic Plateau is the coldest place on Earth, with a frosty temperature reaching minus 94 degrees Celsius, per NASA. To determine the correct measurements, researchers utilized satellite data that was taken over a ridge on the Antarctic Ice Sheet between 2004 and 2016.
2. Vostok Station Antarctica (-89.2°C)
Established by the Soviet Union in 1957, the Vostok research station had the world’s lowest recorded temperature at minus 89.2 degrees Celsius in July 1983. Aside from its freezing thermal state, Vostok Station is also well known to be one of the driest places on Earth, receiving about 20 millimeters of rain every year.
3. Amundsen-Scott Station, Antarctica (-82.8°C)
Situated on the South Pole, the coldest temperature ever recorded at Amundsen-Scott Station was estimated to be minus 82.8 degrees Celsius in June 1982. This wintry scientific research area reportedly only gets as much as six months of sunlight throughout the year, while the rest of the winter months are cast in total darkness.
4. Denali, Alaska, The United States (-73°C)
Standing tall at more than 6000 meters above sea level is Denali, also known as Mount McKinley. The peak is North America’s highest, with the lowest temperature ever documented being minus 73 degrees Celsius. While the average temperature is around -10°C, wind chills around the snowy landscape can drop as low as -83.4 degrees Celsius.
5. Klinck Station, Greenland (-69.6°C)
A large portion of Greenland’s ice continues to melt rapidly, showing noticeable signs of global warming. The Klinck weather station, also known as the Arctic Circle’s coldest place, is one of the affected areas despite having beat Oymyakon by 2 degrees in December 1991.
6. Oymyakon, Siberia, Russia (-67.7C)
Located in the Arctic Circle’s Northern Pole of Cold, Oymyakon records history as the coldest permanently inhabited place on Earth, with an estimated population below 500 people. New Scientist highlighted that schools in Oymyakon are shut down once the temperature reaches below -55 degrees Celsius, typically during winter months.
7. North Ice, Greenland (-66.1C)
Another research station is making the list of Earth’s coldest places, with the lowest temperature documented at -66.1 degrees Celsius in 1954. North Ice was originally set up during the British North Greenland Expedition in the 1950s.
8. Yakutsk, Siberia, Russia (-64.4C)
Located on permafrost, perennially frozen ground covering 55 percent of Russia, Yakutsk holds the title as one of the coldest cities to ever exist on Earth. As the long, frozen cold winter embraces Yakutsk, the Lena River transforms into a road due to the freezing temperature.
9. Snag, Yukon Territory, Canada (-62.8C)
Once operated as an emergency landing strip during World War II, the village later served as a weather station where researchers documented the lowest temperature of minus 62.8 degrees Celsius.
10. Prospect Creek, Alaska, United States of America (-62.1°C)
Long before the absence of life in Prospect Creek, the site was originally built as a settlement for workers of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System in the 1970s. Today, Prospect Creek claims some of the United States’s coldest winter temperature, with the lowest at -62.1 degrees Celsius back in January 1971.
The majority of the coldest places on Earth are located in the greater part of Antarctica, which showcases their lowest recorded temperature many years ago.
NEW SCIENTIST | USA TODAY
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