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

Nothing could be more cheerless and dismal: we smoked and talked a little, with much silence between, and I began to think that one more such day would disgust me with the Arctic Zone.

From Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland by Taylor, Bayard

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.

I found in America no trace of interest in such valuable records as the Kearton pictures of African jungle life or the Ponting records of the Arctic Zone.

From Roving East and Roving West by Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall)