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

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

In Idaho or Connecticut it took about 10 years to produce the same amount of timber as took 300 years on the edge of the Arctic Zone.

From The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer Lake by Seton, Ernest Thompson