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ANTARCTICA AND THE ARCTIC: FACTS, FIGURES, AND STORIES

“ante” and “arktos.” In Greek,“ante”means “opposite.”Antarctica is the polar opposite of the Arctic on the globe. How Cold Is It? The coldest temperature ever recorded on earth was –128.6°F (–89.2°C) in Vostok, Antarctica, on July 21, 1983. (By contrast, the average high temperature for Phoenix, Arizona, on that day each year is 106°F/41°C.)

Russian scientists brave one of the coldest places on Earth to maintain a science station at Vostok on the Antarctic continent.