Arabian Business finds out where the world’s hottest and coldest temperatures have been recorded.
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IN PICS: World’s hottest, coldest places
Vostok Station is a Russian research station located near the Southern Pole of Inaccessibility, at the centre of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet. It is located within the Australian Antarctic Territory and on July 21, 1983, the lowest temperature ever recorded on earth was experience there as it plummeted −89.2C (−128.6F). (Google Images)
Death Valley is the lowest, driest and hottest valley in the United States and holds the record highest temperature in the Western hemisphere and world’s second highest when 56.7C (134.0F) was reached on the July 10, 1913. Located southeast of the Sierra Nevada range in the Great Basin and the Mojave Desert, it constitutes much of Death Valley National Park. Temperatures in the Valley can regularly range from up to 130F (54C) in the day in the summer, to below freezing at night in the winter. (Getty Images)
Plateau Station is an inactive American research support base on the central Antarctic Plateau. Construction on the site started on December 13, 1965, and the first traverse team arrived in early 1966. The base was in continuous use until January 29, 1969, when it was closed but mothballed for future use. It is also the site for the world’s coldest measured average temperature for a month, recorded in July 1968, at −99.8F (−73.2C). (Google Images)
Ghadamis is one of the municipalities of Libya. It is in the northwest of the country. Its capital is Ghadames. Temperatures can regularly reach 131F (55C). (Getty Images)
Oymyakon is a village in Oymyakonsky Ulus of the Sakha Republic, Russia, located along the Indigirka River. Oymyakon is known as one of the candidates for the Northern Pole of Cold, because on January 26, 1926, a temperature of −71.2C (−96.2F) was recorded there. This is the lowest recorded temperature for any permanently inhabited location on Earth. (Google Images)
Kebili is a desert town in central Tunisia, south of the Chott el-Jerid. It is the capital of the Kebili Governorate and can experience temperatures of up to 55C (131F). (Google Images)
Verkhoyansk is situated on the Yana River, near the Arctic Circle, 675km from Yakutsk. There is a river port, an airport, a fur-collecting depot, and the centre of a reindeer-raising area. Population: 1,434 (2002 Census). At the 2002 census it was the third-smallest town in Russia but it is noted for exceptionally low winter temperatures, with a January average of −50C (−58F). It lies in the coldest area of the Northern Hemisphere (aka Stalin’s Death Ring). (Goggle Images)
