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temperatures many degrees below those recorded at 
the same time at Cape Evans. The lowest temperature 
they encountered was - 77"^ F., which is the record low 
temperature for the Antarctic and has only been sur- 
passed in the Arctic at Werchojansk in Siberia— the coldest 
spot on the earth. That the Barrier is much colder 
than McMurdo Sound was made clear during the Discovery 
Table I 
Cape Evans. 
77° 35' S. 
Northern stations. 
77^ 30' N. 
Difference, 
February . 
i8-6 
August 34*2 
March 
6-2 
September 21*4 
^ 15-2 
April . 
1*4 
October 2*1 
-3-5 
May . 
II'O 
November - 8*3 
-27 
June . 
II-8 
December - i6-6 
4-8 
July . . - 
19-6 
January - 23*1 
3-S 
August 
20-0 
February - 23*3 
3-3 
September . - 
15-4 
March . - 19-5 
4-1 
October . - 
4-0 
April . ~ 5'4 
1-4 
November , 
12*4 
May . 15-4 
-3-0 
December . 
21-5 
June . 33-1 
- II-6 
January 
20'7 
July , 36-9 
- l6-2 
Expedition, but the temperature observations made by 
the Norwegian Expedition at Framheim have shown 
how great the difference really is. Framheim was only 
sixty miles nearer the Pole than Cape Evans, yet the 
mean temperature measured there was - 13*4° F., that is 
13° F. lower than the temperature experienced simul- 
taneously at Cape Evans. The cause of the great difference 
