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Antarctic
[ ant-ahrk-tik, -ahr-tik ]
noun
- the Antarctic, the continent of Antarctica along with the Southern Ocean.
Antarctic
/ æntˈɑːktɪk /
noun
- the Antarctic or Antarctic ZoneAntarctica and the surrounding waters
adjective
- of or relating to the south polar regions
Word History and Origins
Origin of Antarctic1
Word History and Origins
Origin of Antarctic1
Example Sentences
Now an assistant area manager with more than a dozen Antarctic deployments behind him, Salom has grown accustomed to the ebb and flow of life on the ice.
The water then swings back southward and travels all the way to the Southern Hemisphere, submerged, where it makes its way to the Antarctic as part of a global system of ocean currents.
Those considerations are complicated by extreme logistics challenges, including the sub-Antarctic storage temperatures the vaccine requires.
Cathy Geiger is a professor at the University of Delaware, and has studied the behavior of sea ice at both the arctic and Antarctic poles for more than three decades.
Riverside Health System in Virginia has ordered a specialized freezer for each of its five hospitals to keep precious vials of coronavirus vaccine as cold as a deep Antarctic freeze.
As forbidding as this terrain is, there is another force at work on the ocean surface – the Antarctic Circumpolar Current.
In ‘Chasing Shackleton’, Tim Jarvis re-enacts a hundred-year-old Antarctic journey using replica gear and clothing.
The teams of service personnel, all of whom have physical or cognitive injuries, have walked 335km across the Antarctic Plateau.
The teams of service personnel, all of whom have physical or cognitive injuries, will race 335km across the Antarctic Plateau.
During a scientific expedition in the Antarctic he lost his colleagues 300 miles from safety.
The merchant would no longer expose his cargoes to the mountainous billows and capricious gales of the Antarctic seas.
They strung out and started for the Antarctic Ocean, with a big old wicker-worked demijohn in the lead.
He had not perfectly proved the impossibility of an antarctic continent.
The non-existence of an antarctic continent was definitely ascertained.
At this time Cook had not yet proved the non-existence of an Antarctic Continent.
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