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Over the whole continent hard to tell but a wind turbine is being installed at Scott base (New Zealand) because it has an average wind speed of 29 km/h. Vostok station (Russia) has 18 km/h. Mawson Station (Australia) averages 67 km/h the windiest place on earth.

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6y ago

The highest wind speed recorded in Antarctica is 5 meters per second

89 meters per second or 198.8 mph according to other data on Wiki

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According to the Google search result for this query:

"The highest wind speeds recorded in Antarctica were at Dumont d'Urville station in July 1972: 327km/h (199 mph),"
The average wind speed in Antarctica is 67 kilometres per hour; the maximum wind speed is 320 kilometres per hour (198.8 miles per hour).

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Based on this, Antarctica would average around 40km/h.

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+maxanderson I would like to add that based off of the entire Antarctic continent, not just these regions it would average around 160km/h. My previous answer was based off of specific stations.

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11y ago

Winds in Antarctica in a blizzard can get to 240 kilometres per hour.

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Winds can speed up to 200 km/h which will obviously blow you over. But Antarctica doesn't really have much weather. So winds, blizzards and storms don't really happen often.

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Wind speed in Antarctica vary as they do anywhere else on Earth. You get windy days and still days.

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