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Ice cap climate
An ice cap climate is a polar climate where the temperature never or almost never exceeds . The climate covers areas in or near the polar regions, such as Antarctica and Greenland, as well as the highest mountaintops. Such areas are covered by a permanent layer of ice and have no vegetation, but they may have animal life, that usually feeds from the oceans.
==Description==
Under the Köppen climate classification, the ice cap climate is denoted as ''EF''. Ice caps are defined as a climate with no months above . Such areas are found around the north and south pole, and on the top of the highest mountains. Since the temperature never exceeds the melting point of water, any snow or ice that accumulates remains there permanently, over time forming a large ice sheet.
The ice cap climate is distinct from the tundra climate, or ''ET''. A tundra climate has a summer season with temperatures consistently above freezing for several months. This summer is enough to melt the winter ice cover, which prevents the formation of ice sheets. Because of this, tundras have vegetation, while ice caps do not.
Ice cap climate is the world's coldest climate, and includes the coldest places on Earth. Vostok, Antarctica is the coldest human-inhabited place in the world, having recorded a temperature of . The following chart indicates the average and record temperatures in this research station through a year:
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