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Arctic Zone   /ˈɑrktɪk zoʊn/   Listen
Arctic Zone

noun
1.
The regions to the north of the Arctic Circle centered on the North Pole.  Synonyms: Arctic, North Frigid Zone.






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"Arctic zone" Quotes from Famous Books



... sun in the political firmament, and that sun sheds his light on those who are able to enjoy it. But in eastern Europe, generally speaking, and on the confines between eastern Europe and Asia, there is no political sun in the heavens. It is all an arctic zone of political life. The luminary, that enlightens the world in general, seldom rises there above the horizon. The light which they possess is at best crepuscular, a kind of twilight, and they are under the necessity of groping about to catch, ...
— Select Speeches of Kossuth • Kossuth

... exposed to extreme cold and require an abundant supply of food, and especially that which contains a large amount of fat. On this account fat meat is taken in large quantities and with a relish. The quantity of food consumed by the natives of the Arctic zone is almost incredible. The Russian Admiral, Saritcheff, relates that one of the Esquimaux in his presence devoured a mass of boiled rice and butter which weighed twenty-eight pounds, at a single meal, and Dr. Hayes states that ...
— The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English • R. V. Pierce

... settlement on the Atlantic coast of the United States, that of St. Augustine in Florida. But slow as they were in taking possession, they were not slow in making claims, for they looked on Florida as extending to the Arctic zone. More than once had they tried to drive the English out of Charleston, and now they were about to make a similar effort in Georgia. That colony had been settled, only ten years before, on land which Spain claimed as her own, and the ...
— Historical Tales, Vol. 2 (of 15) - The Romance of Reality • Charles Morris

... explained that the northern belt of Canada lying in a semi-arctic zone should hardly be included in comparisons with the area of the United States lying altogether in a temperate zone; but if cultivation is proving one thing more than another, it is that Canada's arctic region ...
— The Canadian Commonwealth • Agnes C. Laut



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