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

Boothia Peninsula was a barren spot far up in the Arctic Zone on Canada's frozen eastern coast.

From The Secret of the Ninth Planet by Wollheim, Donald Allen

To this we must turn our attention in a new chapter, as he went out to the limits of the Arctic Zone in search of Sir J. Franklin, and accomplished a most adventurous journey.

From Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold by Kingston, William Henry Giles

England might really have taken a slide up into the Arctic Zone; the sky looks like ice; the earth is frozen; the wind is as keen as a two-edged blade.

From Life of Charlotte Bronte — Volume 2 by Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn

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