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The temperature at the South Pole is about 30 degrees F colder than the temperature at the North Pole, because the South Pole sits on a continent -- Antarctica -- 98% of which is covered with an ice sheet.

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In the winter the temperature stays at around -65 degrees Celsius. The highest temperature recorded was -13.6 degrees Celsius and the lowest was -82.8 degrees Celsius

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