The area or point in each hemisphere that has the lowest mean temperatures. Verkhoyansk in north-eastern Siberia is in the region of one northern-hemisphere cold pole, with an annual mean of −17.2 °C and an absolute minimum of −67 °C. There is a second northern-hemisphere cold pole at Snag, Yukon, where the annual average temperature is −5.8 °C and −63 °C (the lowest temperature ever recorded in N. America) was registered in February 1947. The southern-hemisphere cold pole is at Vostok Station, Antarctica, where the average annual temperature is −55.1 °C and where −89.2 °C (the lowest temperature ever recorded on the Earth’s surface) was measured on 21 July 1983.