The average temperature in Antarctica, a cold desert with little precipitation, is -17 degrees Celsius.
It is quite cold, but it is not by far the lowest temperature remembered on the Antarctic continent.
In 1960, Russian scientists working at the Vostok Antarctic station, more than 1,200 km from the South Pole, recorded a temperature of -89.2 degrees Celsius!
Although hard to believe, they are 11 degrees cooler than dry ice (solid carbon dioxide).
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