David Leveille, TheWorld.org ("Expedition Across Frozen Siberian Frontier," Jan. 28, 2013)
Monday’s Geo Quiz is cold, cold, cold.
We’re looking for the name of a cold Siberian city. It’s the capital of the Russian
Republic of Sakha [as in
Shakya?
Sakka?
Buddhist Kalmykia?] It has on average the coldest winter temperatures for any city in the world. This capital city is also the starting point of a venture nicknamed “Expedition Extreme Cold.” In the weeks ahead, a small team of explorers, reindeer herders, and a
filmmaker [Mikael Strandberg] will trek several hundred miles across a Siberian forest where temperatures get down to minus 75 Fahrenheit....
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