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Vostok Station recorded the lowest natural surface temperature
Thermometers plunged to minus 89.2 degrees Celsius in Antarctica
On July 21, 1983, researchers at the Soviet Vostok Station in Antarctica measured an air temperature of minus 89.2 degrees Celsius. Located near the Southern Pole of Inaccessibility, the station sits at an elevation of 3,488 metres. Satellite measurements have since detected ground temperatures approaching minus 93 degrees.
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