Friday, December 14, 2012 11:02:00 AM | by Nicole Hill
World's coldest places & ice hotels
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Do you love snow and wilt in the heat? If a winter wonderland is your ideal getaway, then click through to see some of the coldest places in the world. Here, a couple prepares to enter an ice chapel for their wedding at Alpha Resort Tomamu's ice village in Hokkaido, Japan.
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This Russian child's one-piece fur snowsuit traps a layer of insulating air.
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International Falls, Minn., is one of the coldest towns in the continental United States. Nearly every day there in December and January dips to 0 F or below.
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A bull moose feeds at Denali National Park and Preserve in Alaska. A weather station on Mount McKinley, also known as Denali, recorded a temperature of -118.1 F, which is the lowest recorded wind-chill temperature in North America.
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Moondogs, a refractive atmospheric phenomenon wherein bright "mock moons" form in the sky, are caused by the tiny ice crystals suspended in clear, deeply chilled air. This photo of this rare phenomenon was taken at Snag in Canada's Yukon Territory.
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A woman eats dinner from an ice plate at the Alpha Resort-Tomamu ice village in Hokkaido, Japan.
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Guests can spend the night in an igloo at the Iglu-Dorf hotel chain in Europe.
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Guests enjoy a romantic moment in an Iglu-Dorf igloo.
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Cozy up inside a romantic igloo in an Iglu-Dorf ice hotel.
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The five Iglu-Dorf villages in Switzerland and Germany are definitely not designed for people who prefer beach vacations.
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Iglu-Dorf igloo villages cater to lovers of wintry weather.
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A man stands near a drilling apparatus at the Vostok Station in Antarctica. This station is coldest place in the Southern Hemisphere. A temperature of -128.6 F was recorded there once.
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Oymyakon, Russia, is the coldest permanently inhabited place on Earth. The lowest recorded temperature there is -96.2 F.
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Yakutsk, Russia, is the coldest city on Earth. It is less than 300 miles south of the Arctic Circle, and January temperatures average -40 F or colder.
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Winter is cold but picturesque in Lower Stanley, Idaho.
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Women bathe outdoors at the Alpha Resort-Tomamu's ice village in Hokkaido, Japan.
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A guest relaxes at the Ice Hotel in Lappland, Sweden.
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Hell, Norway, routinely freezes over, with winter temperatures falling well below 0 F.
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Oymyakon, Russia, gets so cold that moisture escaping a house quickly turns into an icy canopy.
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Fraser, Colo., is the coldest town in the lower 48 states. The town routinely sees frost in all four seasons, and the record low temperature there is -47 F.
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Verkhoyansk, Russia, is one of the coldest places in the Northern Hemisphere. Temperatures there dipped to -93.6 F in February 1892.
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Sleep in a fur-lined bed made of ice in the Ice Hotel in Quebec City, Quebec.
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People drink in the main bar of the Ice Hotel in Kiruna, Sweden.
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The Eureka weather station in Nunavut, Canada, is used to update the exact position of the Earth's magnetic North Pole. In winter the temperature can drop to -58 F. The sun sets on the station in mid-October and doesn't rise again until late February.
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A woman tours the Ice Hotel in Sainte-Catherine-de-la-Jacques-Cartier in Quebec, Canada. The hotel is open from January to April.
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The chandelier at the entrance to the Ice Hotel in Jukkasjarvi Lappland, Sweden, uses fiber optics.
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Diners sit at a table made of ice in the Balea Lac Hotel of Ice in the Fagaras Mountains in Romania.
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Beverage logos are carved into the walls of the bar at the Ice Hotel in Quebec, Canada.
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A crescent moon and stars adorn a bedroom inside the Ice Hotel in Norrbotten, Sweden.
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The Ice Hotel in Quebec, Canada, includes a chapel.
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Young Inuit people show off their ceremonial parkas in Barrow, Alaska.
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A herder walks through the door of a traditional tent in grasslands a few miles north of Ulan Bator, Mongolia. Ulan Bator is the coldest national capital, with an average temperature of -13 F in January.
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The Ice Hotel in Sainte-Catherine-de-la-Jacques-Cartier in Quebec, Canada, blends into its snowy environment.
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Igloos make for cozy accommodations at the Ice Hotel in Jukkasjarvi, Sweden.
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Do you love snow and wilt in the heat? If a winter wonderland is your ideal getaway, then click through to see some of the coldest places in the world. Here, a couple prepares to enter an ice chapel for their wedding at Alpha Resort Tomamu's ice village in Hokkaido, Japan.
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International Falls, Minn., is one of the coldest towns in the continental United States. Nearly every day there in December and January dips to 0 F or below.
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A bull moose feeds at Denali National Park and Preserve in Alaska. A weather station on Mount McKinley, also known as Denali, recorded a temperature of -118.1 F, which is the lowest recorded wind-chill temperature in North America.
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Moondogs, a refractive atmospheric phenomenon wherein bright "mock moons" form in the sky, are caused by the tiny ice crystals suspended in clear, deeply chilled air. This photo of this rare phenomenon was taken at Snag in Canada's Yukon Territory.