Dome A or Dome Argus is an Antarctican plateau located 1200 kilometres inland. It is thought to be the coldest naturally occurring place on Earth, with temperatures believed to get close to −90 °C (−130 °F). It is the highest ice feature in Antarctica, consisting of a dome or eminence 4,091 meters elevation above sea level. It is located near the center of East Antarctica, approximately midway between the head of Lambert Glacier and the South Pole, within the Australian claim.
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“The sun, the hero of every day, the impersonal old man that beams as brightly on death as on birth, came up every morning and raced across the blue dome and dipped into the sea of fire every evening. Water ran down hill and birds nested.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)
“A starlit or a moonlit dome disdains
All that man is,
All mere complexities,
The fury and the mire of human veins.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)