North Ice

North Ice was a research station of the British North Greenland Expedition (1952 to 1954) on the inland ice of Greenland. The coordinates of the station were 78.06667°N, -38.48333°W, at an altitude of 2341 m above sea level. The British North Greenland Expedition had its main base camp in Britannia Lake, Queen Louise Land. It was led by Commander James Simpson RN. The station recorded a temperature of -66.1 C on 9 January 1954, which made it the lowest temperature ever recorded in North America up until that time. It was superseded by an observation of -69.6 C at the Greenland Ice Sheet on 22 December 1991. The name of the station contrasts to the former British South Ice station in Antarctica.