If you're thinking about traveling to the coldest place in the world, get ready because it might not be a good option unless you have the best winter clothes. But if it's just out of curiosity, then that's fine 🙂
Also, it's hard to talk about just one place being the coldest, as there are several that fall on this sub-zero list. Some accessible only by scientists and others that there are actually residents and tourism in place.
East Antarctic Plateau – Antarctica
The high elevation of the East Antarctic Plateau and its proximity to the South Pole give it the coldest climate of any region on Earth.
The lowest air temperature ever measured by a weather station, minus 89.2°C, was recorded at Vostok Station on July 23, 1983. But weather stations cannot measure temperatures everywhere.
Antarctic Vostok Station
Part of the South Pole of the Cold, an area in the southern hemisphere with the lowest surface temperatures on record, the Vostok research station was established by the Soviet Union in 1957.
Thermometers here reached a low of -89.2°C in July 1983, the lowest air temperature ever recorded directly.
It's also one of the driest places on Earth, receiving around 20 millimeters of precipitation a year, all of it snow.
Denali – Alaska – United States of America
Denali, formerly known as Mount McKinley, is the highest peak in North America at over 6,000 meters above sea level.
With an average temperature of around -10°C, only half of the people who try to climb this mountain make it to the peak. Between 1950 and 1969, a weather station reached a temperature of around -73°C, but wind chills can reach -83.4°C.
Yakutsk – Russia
Yakutsk it is one of the coldest cities in the world, with mercury dropping as low as -42 °C. It reported its lowest temperature in February 1987 at -64.39 °C.
The city is the capital of the province of Sakha, located in the northeastern part of Russia. Interestingly, the city is located along the Lena River and during winters the river is frozen over.
It is situated in continuous permafrost. This means that Yakutsk is situated on the southernmost border of the Northern Hemisphere, where the land is covered by continuous permafrost or glacial ice.
Founded in 1632 by the Cossacks, the city was originally called Lensky Prison or Yakutsk Prison.
The distance between the Russian capital Moscow and Yakutsk is 8468 km. The city is mainly connected by the Lena highway.
Yakutsk is also home to several theaters, museums and old Soviet-era houses. The annual Ysyakh summer festival takes place on the last weekend of June.
Currently, Yakutsk has a population of over 250,000 people. Curiously, Russki chai (which is a word for vodka) is how locals beat the crushing cold.
Snag - Yukon Territory Canada
In 1947, the small village of Snag, Yukon, in northwest Canada was home to about 10 First Nation people.
The village was used as an emergency landing strip during World War II and later as a weather station, where temperatures as low as -62.8°C were recorded, prompting researchers to retest their equipment to ensure it was working properly. .
Coldest place in the universe
Finally, it is even difficult to describe the coldest in the world or in the universe. There comes a point where it's impossible to measure how cold it is, it's even dangerous to go out on the streets if you don't have suitable clothes, special for this cold weather.
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