Kilimanjaro, Tanzania
Lake Asal, Djibouti
Al 'Aziziyah, Libya
13 September 1922
Ifrane, Morocco
11 February 1935
Mount McKinley (Denali), Alaska, U.S.A.
Death Valley, California, U.S.A. (compare the Deepest ice section)
Death Valley, California, U.S.A.
10 July 1913
Snag, Yukon, Canada
3 February 1947
Northice, Greenland
9 January 1954
Aconcagua, Mendoza, Argentina
Laguna del Carbón, Argentina
Villa de María, Córdoba, Argentina
2 January 1920[1]
Sarmiento, Argentina
1 June 1907
Vinson Massif
(compare the Deepest ice section)
Vanda Station
5 January 1974
Vostok
21 July 1983
Mount Everest, Nepal - Tibet, China [A]
Dead Sea shore, Israel - Jordan
Tirat Tzvi, Israel (then part of the British Mandate of Palestine)
21 June 1942[2][C]
Verkhoyansk, Siberia, Russia (then in the Russian Empire)
7 February 1892 [3]
Oymyakon, Siberia, Russia (then in the Soviet Union)
26 January 1926 [4]
Mount Kosciuszko, New South Wales
Lake Eyre, South Australia
Oodnadatta, South Australia
2 January 1960[B]
Charlotte Pass, New South Wales
29 June 1994
Mount Elbrus, Russia
Caspian Sea shore, Russia
Riodades, Douro (province), Portugal
4 August 1881[5]
Ust-Schugor, Russia
31 December 1978 [6]
Carstensz Pyramid (Puncak Jaya), New Guinea
Awatere Valley and Rangiora, New Zealand
7 February 1973
Ophir, New Zealand
3 July 1995
[A]: Height above sea level is the usual choice of definition for elevation. In terms of the point farthest away from the centre of the Earth, Chimborazo in Ecuador (6,267 m) can be considered the planet's most extreme high point. This is due to the Earth's oblate spheroid shape, with points near the Equator being farther out from the centre than those at the poles.
[B]:
A
temperature of 53.1 °C (128.0 °F) was recorded in
Cloncurry,
Queensland on 16 January 1889 under non-standard exposure conditions
and is therefore not considered official. Transcript of report on the highest
temperature
[C]: This is the highest recorded air temperature. Higher surface temperatures have been measured, for example, 70.7 °C (159.3 °F) in 2005 in the Lut desert, Iran.[7][8][9]
