GREENLAND – The North Pole and South Pole is the coldest place on Earth because of its position above and below the planet so it does not get sunlight. Both regions are really cold, but which one is much colder in temperature?
In both places, the sun always sets low on the horizon, even in the middle of summer. During winter, the sun lies so far below the horizon, it doesn’t appear for months at a time.
Even though it has a number of factors in common that both poles are really cold, it turns out that the South Pole is still much colder than the North Pole. According to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, the average annual temperature in the Arctic is minus 40 degrees Celsius in winter and 0 degrees Celsius in summer.
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In contrast, the average South Pole is much colder, with average annual temperatures of minus 60 degrees Celsius in winter and minus 28.2 degrees Celsius in summer. The main reason the South Pole is colder than the North Pole lies in the geographical differences between the two.
“The North Pole is an ocean and the South Pole is a continent,” Robin Bell, a polar scientist at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University in New York, told Live Science.
The Arctic is an ocean surrounded by land. Antarctica is a land surrounded by oceans. Water cools and warms more slowly than land, resulting in fewer temperature extremes.
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Even when the Arctic Ocean is covered in ice, its relatively warm water temperatures have a moderate effect on the climate there, helping the Arctic to stay warmer than Antarctica. While the Arctic lies at sea level, Antarctica is the highest continent, with an average elevation of about 2,300 meters, and the higher it is, the colder it gets.
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