Antarctic Plateau
The next reliable measurement was made during the 1957 season at the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica, yielding on 11 May and on 17 September. The next world record low temperature was a reading of , measured at the Soviet Vostok Station in 1968, on the Antarctic Plateau. Vostok again broke its own record with a reading of on 21 July 1983. This remains the record for a directly recorded temperature.