COLDEST PLACE ON EARTH.
"P.P." writes: Your Siberian village of Verkhoyansk is the place- to freeze out the depression, but I suggest that the coldest spot on earth is probably in the Antarctic regions. The tired main factors which determine extreme minimum temperature in winter are (1). distance from the equator, (2) distance from the ocean, and (3) height above sea level. The South Pole is at the extreme distartce from the Equator, some hundreds of miles from the nearest ocean, and about 10,OOOft . abov« sea level. ' ■
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 81, 6 April 1933, Page 10
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87COLDEST PLACE ON EARTH. Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 81, 6 April 1933, Page 10
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