in 1983 russian scientists working in antarcica recorded a temperature of _89 c.this is the coldest temperoture ever recorded .antarctica is colder than the arctic because the snow surface in antarctica is higher than in the arctic also the north in the middle of the arctic ocean .although most of the sea is frozen it is not as cold as the south pole in antarctica .under the snow in antarctica there is land not ocean land can get colder than a frozen sea. so antarctiva colder than the arctic antartica is also the driest continent on earth .it gets less than ten centimetres of rain every year.this means that antarctica is adesert because a desert is aplace where there is less than 25.4 centimetes of rain every year .
