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The highest temperature ever recorded at the South Pole (Amundsen-Scott Station) is −13.6 degrees Celsius on the 27th of December, 1978, and the lowest is −82.8 degrees Celsius on the 23rd of June, 1982. The Australian Antarctic Territory (AAT) experienced the world's lowest temperature when -89.6 degrees Celsius was recorded on 21st July, 1983, at Vostok Station at an elevation of 3488 metres.

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