Talk:Pole of Cold

message: I'm no geographer, but how can somewhere thousands of miles south of the north pole be colder than the north pole itself, in winter, assuming that the further north you get the colder it is?
Well, exactly this assumption is not always the case. Generally, yes, it gets colder at higher latitude, because the sunlight arrives at a lower angle. But other factors can overrule this rule of thumb. In some geological scenarios, the Arctic Ocean used to be a swampland earlier in the Earth's history. And Yakutia is so cold because it is surrounded to the East, West and South by high mountains holding the cold air from the Arctic ocean and keeping away warmer winds from the Pacific. Benzh 02:43, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

message: * In this article it is written -89.9°C as the temperature record in Vostok. However, in the Vostok, Antarctica article, it says -89.2°C. Please check the sources. Benzh 02:50, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inconsistency with other article 

message: I'm reading Jules Verne's The Adventures of Captain Hatteras at the moment, and he makes a big deal of the "pole of cold", as Hatteras discovers a warmer region near the North Pole itself.  My understanding from the notes is that Verne (and presumably the authors he used as his sources) thought of the poles as having a real existence (he thought there were two in the northern hemisphere). The "pole of cold", according to Verne, was not just a name for the place where the coldest temperature was recorded, but a place which had to be the coldest due to some physical law, analagous to the magnetic north pole or the rotational north pole.  I'll try to summarise Verne's reasoning, but I'm sure there will be other references to this theory.  --ajn (talk) 13:08, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Concept of the pole 

message: I think this arcticle has too many "however"s. Could someone make it look a bit more focused on the facts? Thanks in advance.--SangeYasha 23:21, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  "However"s =

message: The claim that Dras, Jammu/Kashmir, is the "world's coldest permanently inhabited place" outside Siberia is obviously false and should be removed - there are many places in Greenland, Canada, Scandinavia, Alaska etc. far colder than Dras.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.137.185.150 (talk) 00:27, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dras 

message: One other ambiguous feature about this article is measurement methods and whether one could accept satellite data for a measurement.  It would seem to me feasible that the center of the Greenland icecap could be colder than some places in Yukon or Siberia.  71.38.147.251 (talk) 18:32, 11 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Northern Pole of Cold 

message: Hello fellow Wikipedians,
I have just modified 2 external links on Pole of Cold. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
*Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20120420233601/http://wmo.asu.edu/northern-hemisphere-lowest-temperature to http://wmo.asu.edu/northern-hemisphere-lowest-temperature
*Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20090106205056/http://askyakutia.com/tag/pole-of-cold/ to http://askyakutia.com/tag/pole-of-cold/
When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.
Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 15:42, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links modified (January 2018)