The North Pole and the South Pole Compared

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Mr. Beat compares and contrasts the North Pole and South Pole. They are polar opposites. Get it? hahahahaha

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The North Pole and South Pole

The northernmost point on earth, and the southernmost point on earth, on opposite ends of the globe.

Both kind of get one really long day each year, with six months of daylight, followed by six months of night. So only one sunrise and sunset a year, yo. This is due to the earth being tilted on its axis. The axis of the earth is almost always pointing in the same direction in space. However, relative to the Sun, the tilt direction changes as the earth orbits it. Each pole tilts toward the Sun for half the year and then away from the Sun the other half of the year.

Anyway, this is also why it gets very, very, very freaking cold at both places. However, it gets much,much colder at the South Pole. The lowest temperature ever recorded at the South Pole was -82.8°C, or -117°F, whereas the lowest temperature ever recorded at the North Pole was -50°C, or -58°F. Now, the lowest temperature ever directly recorded at ground level on Earth was −89.2 °C (−128.6 °F). And that was at the Vostok Station in Antarctica, which is about 798 miles, or 1,284 km, from the South Pole.

Now, the HIGHEST temperature ever recorded at the South Pole was only -12.3°C, or 10°F. Yep, it never gets anywhere close to above freezing there. The North Pole, on the other hand, once recorded a temperature of 13 °C, or 55 °F.

This is why some wildlife has been spotted near the North Pole, but basically only a rare type of bacteria has ever been actively observed at the South Pole, although that has been disputed. Even animals like polar bears and arctic foxes have been known to wander near the North Pole, and one animal, a type of sea anemone, apparently lives in the water at and around the North Pole. Craziness.