Ready to face the cold
Approx. Temperature: -40 °C / -40 °F
Windchill: -51 °C / -61 °F
Nikon D3s + 24-70mm f/2.8G | Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, Antarctica, 17 Nov 2011
© 2011 José Francisco Salgado, PhD
Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, located at 90 degrees south latitude, sits at an elevation of approximately 2,836 meters (9,306 ft), most of which is ice. Because the Earth’s atmosphere is thinner at the poles, the resulting average “physiological altitude” is 3,223 m (10,576 ft).
The average annual temperature at the South Pole is -49.5° C (-57.1 °F), with a record low temperature of -82.8° C (-117.0° F) in June 1982 and a record high of -13.6° C (+7.5° F) in December
1978.
Ready to face the cold
Approx. Temperature: -40 °C / -40 °F
Windchill: -51 °C / -61 °F
Nikon D3s + 24-70mm f/2.8G | Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, Antarctica, 17 Nov 2011
© 2011 José Francisco Salgado, PhD
Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, located at 90 degrees south latitude, sits at an elevation of approximately 2,836 meters (9,306 ft), most of which is ice. Because the Earth’s atmosphere is thinner at the poles, the resulting average “physiological altitude” is 3,223 m (10,576 ft).
The average annual temperature at the South Pole is -49.5° C (-57.1 °F), with a record low temperature of -82.8° C (-117.0° F) in June 1982 and a record high of -13.6° C (+7.5° F) in December
1978.