cold pole

American  

noun

1. the location in the northern or southern hemisphere having the coldest annual mean temperature in that hemisphere.

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Etymology

Origin of cold pole

First recorded in 1905–10

Example Sentences

There's the pole of inaccessibility, for the greatest distance from a coast; the cold pole, for the most frigid place; the pole of variability, for the spot with the greatest range in atmospheric pressure.

From The Guardian • Nov. 22, 2012

The Siberian cold pole becomes a maximum of temperature during the summer, but the Greenland and polar minima remain throughout the year.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" by Various

Burghaus, in his Atlas, transfers the American cold pole to 78� N. Lat.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 33, July, 1860 by Various

At the cold pole of north-eastern Siberia a January mean of -60� is found.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" by Various