The Lowest Temperatures Recorded in Antarctica and Greenland

May I point out with reference to the note on the coldest place on earth, published in the July 1953 number of the Polar Record (p. 821-22), that the lowest temperature measured in Antarctica is not that recorded during the winter journey in July 1911, -60-5 C. (-77 F.) but the -61 C. (-78 F.) and possibly -64 C. (-83F.) measured by R. E. Byrd at Boiling Base (lat. 80 8'S., long. 163 55'W.) on 21 and 22 July 1934. 1 -2 The mean for 21 July was -60-6 C. (-77-1 F.). 1 A temperature of -60-5 C. (-77 F.) was reached on 20, 21 and 30 August 1934. 2

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