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  • The greatest known temperature variations occur in Verkhoyansk, where Soviet meteorologists have recorded both - 90° and 98°.

    This Side of Ultima Thule 1997

  • The coldest confirmed temperature in the Northern Hemisphere — minus 67.8 degrees Celsius — was recorded in Verkhoyansk, which is also the oldest European settlement in the Arctic.

    The Arctic Oil Rush Shoumatoff, Alex 2008

  • Loyal Russians call Verkhoyansk the heart of Siberia.

    From Paris to New York by Land Harry De Windt 1894

  • During November 2007, I camped in the Verkhoyansk Range with reindeer herders from an indigenous Even community in Siberia.

    Subhankar Banerjee: House Rhetoricians vs. Santa's Reindeers Subhankar Banerjee 2011

  • During November 2007, I camped in the Verkhoyansk Range with reindeer herders from an indigenous Even community in Siberia.

    Subhankar Banerjee: House Rhetoricians vs. Santa's Reindeers Subhankar Banerjee 2011

  • These stations are Fort Smith (Canada), Valdez (Alaska), and Verkhoyansk, Vilyuysk, and Yakutsk (central Russia).

    Permafrost and infrastructure in the Arctic 2009

  • Instanes A. and Mjureke [31] used the ACIA-designated models (section 4.2.7) to project changes in active-layer thickness and maximum permafrost temperature for seven of the sites in Table 16.3: Barrow, Bethel, Naryan-Mar, Nuuk, Svalbard Airport, Turukhansk, and Verkhoyansk.

    Permafrost and infrastructure in the Arctic 2009

  • In the northeast, the town of Verkhoyansk boasts some of the coldest winter temperatures on Earth, sometimes as low as - 70°C.

    Northeast Siberian taiga 2008

  • Verkhoyansk is the coldest city in the world, with an average daily temperature for January of -49 Celsius -56 Fahrenheit.

    And You Thought It Was Cold In Green Bay! 2008

  • A cozy burg of l,800 which has been having a rough time since the end of Soviet subsidizing of remote rural communities, Verkhoyansk was founded in 1638 by Cossacks sent out by Czar Mikhail I to conquer the surrounding region.

    The Arctic Oil Rush Shoumatoff, Alex 2008

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