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Watermelons in Vostok Station
August 5 , 2023
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- Scientists have achieved the remarkable milestone of cultivating watermelons in Antarctica.
- They cultivated at the Russian research facility - Vostok Station situated at the Pole.
- This location is classified as the coldest spot-on Earth.
- Here the temperatures plunge to minus 128.6 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 89.2 degrees Celsius).
- Watermelons are originating over 4,300 years ago in present-day Sudan.
- Korean scientists achieved watermelon cultivation at the King Sejong Station in West Antarctica in 2021.
- That site recorded temperature as low as minus 78.1 F (minus 25.6 C).
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