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

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

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)

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.

If it can be made to appear beyond question that these systems prevail and are identical every where from Patagonia to the Arctic Zone, his argument will have great force.

From Ancient America, in Notes on American Archaeology by Baldwin, John D. (John Denison)