The coldest place on Earth

The coldest place on our planet is in Antarctica. In 1958, the temperature falls below minus here 80 degrees Celsius. There is a scientific research station Vostok. Snow and ice melts in Antarctica, not even in the summer. And while the sun shines for a few months almost without interruption, day and night, but it does not warm the earth, cooled down for a long winter. This is because the sun is low above the horizon. In addition, it is often closed by dense clouds and mists, and the white surface of the ice very well reflects the sun's rays. Six months, during the polar night, in Antarctica raging fierce cold. In 1961, frosts reached minus 88.3 degrees Celsius. While still blowing gale-force winds - up to 70 meters per second. Gasoline with a frost is thick as jelly. Metal and rubber from the frost broke like glass. Any car or a huge truck with a frost can be divided into an ordinary stick. All of the coldest places on Earth are called Ice Zone of the planet. In the northern hemisphere to the ice area include northern outskirts of the Taimyr Peninsula, as well as numerous islands in the Arctic - an area lying around the North Pole. This is the northern island of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, Greenland, Spitsbergen, Franz Josef Land, and others. In the southern polar region - Antarctica - is covered by ice of Antarctica. He is fully included in ice zone of the Southern Hemisphere. Due to its climate of Antarctica is the largest refrigerator planet. It contains about half the total ice of the earth. Antarctica is a continent, entirely covered with very thick ice sheet, from which only here and look through a sharp single mountains and mountain ranges. The language of this massive glacier descends into the sea, and from time to time from him break off huge chunks - icebergs. Some countries of the Southern Hemisphere, the ships towed to their shores, these huge blocks of ice and use it for their household needs.