North Ice was a research station of the British North Greenland Expedition (1952 to 1954) on the inland ice of

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. The coordinates of the station were , at an altitude of above

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. The British North Greenland Expedition was led by Commander James Simpson RN. The station recorded a temperature of on 9 January 1954, which made it the lowest temperature ever recorded in North America up until that time. It was superseded by an observation of at the Greenland Ice Sheet on 22 December 1991.WMO verifies -69.6°C Greenland temperature as Northern hemisphere record
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South Ice station in

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Research stations in Greenland Arctic research {{Greenland-geo-stub

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