Coldest Places on Earth: Where are They?

The coldest places on Earth are mostly located along the extreme northern and southern end of the world.

The 25.5 degrees angle of our planet makes these locations to experience relative colder temperatures than regions situated along the tropics and the equator.

The places with extreme cold temperatures are also a site of wild animals adapted to the cold or where scientific discoveries are made.

In spite of the freezing or sub-freezing cold, these locations are still barely survivable, wherein some people residing in these places have learned to adapt and live by using methods, such as boiling water since tap water is unusable as it either too cold, or available water becomes frozen when exposed in the air in a matter of seconds or minutes.

Top Coldest Places on Earth

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Tourists look at glaciers onboard the Hurtigruten hybrid expedition cruise ship, MS Roald Amundsen, at Chiriguano Bay in South Shetland Islands, Antarctica on November 08, 2019.

Various sources have compiled the list of coldest places on Earth.

However, research showed that there are common locations in this category, most of those on the grand list are situated in northern Canada, Russia's Siberia, Greenland, Antarctica, and other places along the Arctic region.

According to the New Scientist science magazine, the top three coldest places on Earth are the Eastern Antarctic Plateau, Vostok Station, and Amundsen-Scott Station all of which are located in Antarctica.

These hotspot cold areas have an average temperature, ranging from -82.8 degrees Celsius, to -89.2 degrees Celsius, and -94 degrees Celsius.

Meanwhile, other coldest places on Earth can be found in other locations aside from Antarctica or other areas in the northern and southern polar regions.

Some of them include the following below, as compiled by the BBC Science Focus Magazine.

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Dome Fuji

Dome Fuji in Antarctica has a temperature of -93.2 degrees Celsius. The Landsat 8 satellite observation satellite of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) reportedly confirmed it to be the coldest place on Earth, beating the previous record holder Vostok station, which it held since 1983.

Also called Dome F or Valkyrie Dome, Dome Fuji is a base and an ice dome created at an altitude of approximately 3,700 meters (12,100 feet) above sea level in the eastern portion of Queen Maud Land.

Dome Argus

Dome Argus is located in the Antarctic Plateau, with a temperature close to the current record holder Dome Fuji, according to the said BBC magazine.

In 2018, a scientific team from the University of Colorado, Boulder tested that temperatures in eastern Antarctica, which includes Dome Argus, can plummet below -90 degrees Celsius.

Coldest Place on Earth

According to NASA, the coldest place on Earth are is situated near a high ridge between Dome Fuji and Dome Argus, which is based 32 years' worth of data analyzed by researchers who used remote sensing satellites, including from the new Landsat 8, a joint project with the United States Geological Survey (USGS).

While both Dome Fuji and Dome Argus are currently contending on the list, some of Earth's coldest places include Snag in Yukon, Canada; North Ice in Greenland; and Yakutsk in Siberia, Russia.

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