The locations below have extremely extreme weather conditions and landscapes like those on other planets, even though they are located directly on Earth.
Life in Ethiopia’s Danakil Lowlands is so hard you might think you are on Mars. The sun scorches the ground, the temperature can sometimes reach 60 degrees Celsius while the air is extremely dry in this place.
Vostok – a former Soviet research station in eastern Antarctica is the coldest place on earth, with the temperature measured by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) on July 21, 1983 being minus 89.2 degrees Celsius.
Death Valley in North America’s Mojave Desert is the hottest place on the planet with an average temperature so high that tourists often fry eggs on the ground. However, the hottest surface temperatures ever measured were not in Death Valley, but in Iran’s Dascht-e Lut Desert. A NASA satellite measured the temperature of 70.7 degrees Celsius in this desert in 2005. Such severe weather conditions have often caused migrating birds to die and fall from the sky.
The driest place on the planet is not the Sahara desert but the valley of dry valleys in Antarctica where there has been no rain for 2 million years. The dry valley is located at 4,053 meters above sea level. The air here is so dry that it hardly snows. It is also said that this site is the quietest place in the world.
Mawsynram in India is the wettest place in the world. The annual rainfall in this village is 1,186 cm.
As the snowiest place in the world, when you drive in the city of Aomori, Japan, sometimes you feel like you are walking among glaciers.
Mount Everest is the tallest mountain in the world. At this height, the atmospheric pressure is only one third of the normal pressure at sea level. At an altitude of 8,000 meters is the death zone with human survival.
Commonwealth Bay in Antarctica has winds of over 240 km / h and is the windiest place on our planet.
Hawaii’s Kīlauea volcano is Earth’s most active volcano, erupting almost continuously since its 1983 eruption.
Bouvet Island is the most isolated place on the planet. Which islands are located in the South Atlantic and in the territory of Norway. The reason is the most isolated place in the world as this place is far from the mainland with the closest point from the mainland to this island is Queen Maud Land in Antarctica with a distance of 1160 km./.
