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This article describes '''extreme locations on [[Earth]]'''. Entries listed in bold are Earth-wide extremes. |
This article describes '''extreme locations on [[Earth]]'''. Entries listed in bold are Earth-wide extremes. |
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==Extreme elevations and temperatures per continent== |
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This article describes extreme locations on Earth. Entries listed in bold are Earth-wide extremes.
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Continent | Elevation (height above/below sea level) | Temperature (recorded)[1]A | |||
Highest | Lowest | Highest | Lowest | ||
Africa | 5,893 m (19,334 ft) Kilimanjaro, Tanzania |
−155 m (−509 ft) Lake Assal, Djibouti |
57.8 °C (136.0 °F) 'Aziziya, Libya 13 September 1922. (Disputed) |
−23.9 °C (−11.0 °F) Ifrane, Morocco 11 February 1935 | |
Antarctica | 4,892 m (16,050 ft) Vinson Massif |
−50 m (−164 ft)[2] Deep Lake, Vestfold Hills (compare the deepest ice section below) |
15 °C (59 °F) Vanda Station 5 January 1974 |
−89.2 °C (−128.6 °F) Vostok Station 21 July 1983 | |
Asia | 8,850 m (29,035 ft) Mount Everest, Nepal/ China |
−424 m (−1,391 ft) Dead Sea shore, Israel - Jordan |
55 °C (131 °F) Mitraba, Kuwait 15 June 2010C |
−67.8 °C (−90.0 °F) Measured Verkhoyansk, Siberia, Russia (then in the Russian Empire) 5 February 1892 | |
−71.2 °C (−96.2 °F) Extrapolated Oymyakon, Siberia, Russia (then in the Soviet Union) 26 January 1926[3] | |||||
Europe | 5,642 m (18,510 ft) Mount Elbrus, Russia (compare the Mont Blanc) |
−28 m (−92 ft) Caspian Sea shore, Russia (compare the Tagebau Hambach) |
48.0 °C (118.4 °F) Athens, Greece (and Elefsina, Greece) 10 July 1977 D |
−58.1 °C (−72.6 °F) Ust-Shchuger, Russia 31 December 1978 | |
North America | 6,198 m (20,335 ft) Denali (Mount McKinley), Alaska, U.S.A. |
−86 m (−282 ft) Death Valley, California, U.S.A. (compare the deepest ice section below) |
56.7 °C (134.1 °F) Death Valley, California, U.S.A. 10 July 1913 |
−63.0 °C (−81.4 °F) Snag, Yukon, Canada 3 February 1947 | |
−66.1 °C (−87.0 °F) North Ice, Greenland 9 January 1954[citation needed] | |||||
Oceania (Australia) |
4,884 m (16,024 ft) Puncak Jaya (Carstensz Pyramid), Indonesia (compare the Mount Wilhelm and Mount Kosciuszko) |
−15 m (−49 ft) Lake Eyre, South Australia, Australia |
50.7 °C (123.3 °F) Oodnadatta, South Australia, Australia 2 January 1960E |
−25.6 °C (−14.1 °F) Ranfurly, New Zealand 18 July 1903 | |
South America | 6,962 m (22,841 ft) Aconcagua, Mendoza, Argentina |
−105 m (−344 ft) Laguna del Carbón, Argentina |
48.9 °C (120.0 °F) Rivadavia, Salta Province, Argentina 11 December 1905 |
−32.8 °C (−27.0 °F) Sarmiento, Argentina 1 June 1907 | |
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Greatest vertical drop
Greatest purely vertical drop | 1,250 m (4,101 ft) Mount Thor, Auyuittuq National Park, Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada (summit elevation 1,675 m (5,495 ft)) |
Greatest nearly vertical drop | 1,340 m (4,396 ft) Trango Towers, Pakistan (summit elevation 6,286 m (20,623 ft)) |
Subterranean
Deepest mine | 4,000 m (13,123 ft) Mponeng Gold mine, South Africa |
Deepest mine under sea level | 2,733 m (8,967 ft) under sea level Kidd Mine, Ontario, Canada |
Deepest open-pit mine | 1,200 m (3,937 ft) Bingham Canyon Mine, Utah, USA |
Deepest open-pit mine under sea level | 293 m (961 ft) under sea level Tagebau Hambach, Germany |
Deepest cave | 2,193 m (7,195 ft) Voronya Cave, Arabika Massif, Georgia |
Deepest pitch (single vertical drop) | 603 m (1,978 ft) Vrtoglavica Cave, Slovenia |
Greatest oceanic depths
Atlantic Ocean | 8,648 m (28,373 ft) Milwaukee Deep, Puerto Rico Trench |
Arctic Ocean | 5,450 m (17,881 ft) Litke Deep, Eurasian Basin |
Indian Ocean | 7,258 m (23,812 ft) Java Trench[10] |
Pacific Ocean | 10,971 m (35,994 ft) Challenger Deep, Mariana Trench[11] |
Southern Ocean | 7,235 m (23,737 ft) South Sandwich Trench (southernmost portion, at 60°S) |
Deepest ice
Ice sheets on land, but having the base below sea level. Places under ice are not considered to be on land.
Bentley Subglacial Trench | −2,555 m (−8,383 ft) | Antarctica |
Trough beneath Jakobshavn Isbræ | −1,512 m (−4,961 ft)[12] | Greenland |
Coldest and hottest inhabited places on Earth
Hottest inhabited place | Dallol, Ethiopia, whose annual mean temperature was recorded from 1960 to 1966 as 34.4 °C (93.9 °F).[13] The average daily maximum temperature during the same period was 41.1 °C (106.0 °F).[14] |
Coldest inhabited place | Oymyakon (Russian: Оймякон), a village (selo) in Oymyakonsky Ulus of the Sakha Republic, Russia, located along the Indigirka River.[15] It has −16 °C (3 °F) as yearly average and −46 °C (−51 °F) as daily average in January, the coldest month. |
The South Pole and some other places in Antarctica are colder and are populated year-round, but almost everyone stays less than a year and could be considered visitors, not inhabitants. |
Northern and southernmost points of land on Earth
Northernmost point on land | Kaffeklubben Island, east of Greenland (83°40′N 29°50′W / 83.667°N 29.833°W) Various shifting gravel bars lie further north, the most famous being Oodaaq |
Southernmost point on land | The geographic South Pole |
See also
References
- ^ Global Weather & Climate Extremes World Meteorological Organization
- ^ Indicator 62 - Water levels of Deep Lake, Vestfold Hills, Australian Antarctic Data Centre. Retrieved 15 January 2010.
- ^ Life Is a Chilling Challenge in Subzero Siberia from the National Geographic
- ^ The Hottest Spot on Earth
- ^ Satellites seek global hot spots | csmonitor.com
- ^ The Ceaseless Buzzing of Kinetic Energy, Daniel Engber, May 30, 2007, Discover, on line; accessed May 9, 2008.
- ^ New Images - The Hottest Spot on Earth, news, Earth Observatory, NASA. Accessed on line May 9, 2008.
- ^ Europe: Highest Temperature WM0
- ^ Transcript of report on the highest temperature
- ^ Indian Ocean, CIA World Factbook. Accessed on line December 26, 2008.
- ^ "Daily Reports for R/V KILO MOANA June and July 2009". University of Hawaii Marine Center. 2009-06-04. Retrieved 2009-06-04.
- ^ Plummer, Joel. Jakobshavn Bed Elevation, Center for the Remote Sensing of the Ice Sheets, Dept of Geography, University of Kansas.
- ^ p. 9, Weather Experiments, Muriel Mandell and Dave Garbot, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc., 2006, ISBN 1402721579.
- ^ Average of table on p. 26, Extreme Weather: A Guide & Record Book, Christopher C. Burt and Mark Stroud, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2007, ISBN 039333015X.
- ^ p. 57, Extreme Weather: A Guide & Record Book, Christopher C. Burt and Mark Stroud, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2007, ISBN 039333015X.