On This Day July 21, 1983 – Coldest Temperature Ever Recorded at Vostok Station, Antarctica

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On This Day July 21, 1983 – Coldest Temperature Ever Recorded at Vostok Station, Antarctica.

On this day July 21, 1983, the coldest natural temperature ever recorded on Earth was measured at Vostok Station, a remote Russian research base in Antarctica. The temperature dropped to an astonishing minus 89.2 degrees Celsius, or minus 128.6 degrees Fahrenheit. Located near the center of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, Vostok Station sits at one of the highest and most isolated points on the continent, making it one of the most extreme environments on the planet.

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