Arctic Zone

American  

noun

1. the section of the earth's surface lying between the Arctic Circle and the North Pole.

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Example Sentences

“Jane Eyre” opens with the title character reading about “the vast sweep of the Arctic Zone, and those forlorn regions of dreary space” where fields of ice “concentrate the multiplied rigours of extreme cold.”

From The New Yorker • Apr. 17, 2017

Another was that, as we have already seen with colds, instead of being commoner and more frequent in the extreme Northern climate and on the borders of the Arctic Zone, pneumonia is almost unknown there.

From Preventable Diseases by Hutchinson, Woods

In this Arctic Zone of taste, I shall never grow to anything, unless happier stars and a Grecian climate warm me into genuine poetry.

From The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works by Carlyle, Thomas

Arctic Zone: is that part of the boreal region above the limit of tree growth in the U. S. is restricted to the area above timber line on the summits of high mountains: = alpine.

From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.

William had come home ill; the hardships of the expedition and the fearful cold of the Arctic Zone had been too much for him.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 15, January, 1859 by Various