2 QUOTES WITH «ARCTIC CIRCLE»
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Arctic Circle.
Iceland, though it lies so far to the north that it is partly within the Arctic Circle, is, like Norway, Scotland, and Ireland, affected by the Gulf Stream, so that considerable portions of it are quite habitable.
If the world were an orange with 18 segments meeting at the top (the North Pole), roughly 8 of them would be in Russia, Canada would have 4, Denmark 2, and Norway, Sweden, and the U.S. just one apiece. Only a sliver of Alaska, on the Beaufort Sea, lies above the Arctic Circle.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ARCTIC CIRCLE»
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Arctic Circle in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Arctic Circle: Birth and Rebirth in the Land of the Caribou
This is their story, told by an author who travels to the Arctic on his sixtieth birthday, partly to "witness a few moments of this endless turning circle of birth and rebirth," partly to fulfill a promise he made to a visionary ecologist, ...
Robert Leonard Reid, 2010
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Trekking in Greenland: The
Arctic Circle Trail
This guide is illustrated with a variety of amazing photographs and its route is highlighted on continuous trekking maps. The guide also includes an optional extension to the Greenlandic ice cap.
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The Magnetic North: Notes from the
Arctic Circle
Now, Wheeler journeys to the opposite pole to create a definitive picture of life on the fringes. In The Magnetic North, she takes full measure of the Arctic: at once the most pristine place on earth and the locus of global warming.
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New Lands Within the
Arctic Circle: Narrative of the ...
First published in 1876, these two volumes document the 1872-4 Austro-Hungarian Arctic expedition which discovered Franz-Josef Land.
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The
Arctic Circle: Aspects of the North from the Circumpolar ...
Contributed papers on the development of Alaska, northern Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland and the U.S.S.R. north.
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First at the North Pole: Or, Two Boys in the
Arctic Circle
What if a pair of plucky youths bore that honor? That's the premise behind Edward Stratemeyer's action-adventure classic, First at the North Pole. Fans of golden-era juvenile fiction will relish this rollicking tale.
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The Last Wild Edge: One Woman's Journey from the
Arctic ...
Where does mankind go from here? Where else have we not settled, altered, and consumed ? Author Susan Zwinger suspects that we have saved this wild edge for last because its geography is punched, exploded, ground, and drenched.
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Biking to the
Arctic Circle: Adventures with Grandchildren
"Bike to the Arctic Circle?
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Beyond the
Arctic Circle: materials on
Arctic explorations ...
Description of the books, maps and manuscripts in the Arctic collections of the University of British Columbia Library (Special Collections and Archives) including the collections of A.J.T. Taylor.
Norman L. Amor, University of British Columbia. Library, 1992
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Conquering the Impossible: My 12,000-Mile Journey Around the ...
An explorer describes his solo, twelve-thousand-mile, twenty-seven-month journey on foot and by sail around the world at the Arctic Circle, detailing the perils he discovered alone in the vast tundra, the hardy inhabitants of the region, ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ARCTIC CIRCLE»
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Arctic Circle is used in the context of the following news items.
In the Race to Control the Arctic, the US Lags Behind
... the Arctic Circle, most of it underwater. “The extensive Arctic continental shelves may constitute the…largest unexplored prospective area for ... «Newsweek, Jul 15»
Timothy Dalton, Eva Green/Showtime Timothy Dalton, Eva Green …
... Ethan, caged and bound for home; and the Creature, in a callback to Mary Shelley's novel, presumably somewhere near the Arctic Circle. «A.V. Club Milwaukee, Jul 15»
Arctic temps warmer than Miami? We have a serious methane …
... by a heat wave in East Siberia… a location well within the Arctic Circle… temperatures as high as 37.1°C (98.78°F) were recorded on July 2, ... «UK Progressive Magazine, Jul 15»
Chess notes
Edmonton, Canada, is about 2,100 miles from Boston but only 900 miles from the Arctic Circle. It is hardly a hot bed of chess activity but with ... «Boston Globe, Jul 15»
Will Willow Smith Be On “Views From The 6″?
shockmansion Video: Welcome To The Arctic Circle, And The Only Place On The Planet Where Carrying A Gun Is A Legal Requirement, And ... «AllHipHop, Jul 15»
ROY GREEN | Polar Bear Numbers Increasing or Decreasing?
Dr. Mitchell Taylor, of Lakehead University has spent more than 30 years researching polar bears in Canada and around the Arctic Circle both ... «640 Toronto News, Jul 15»
Melting Arctic Ice Is a Warning, but Oil Companies See It as a …
The plan was to sail the Arctic Sunrise towards the Prirazlomnaya oil platform, 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle, and do something to stop its ... «Truth-Out, Jul 15»
Matanuska Farm, Kiwanis celebrate 100 years
... Station in 1900, the northernmost agricultural experiment station in the United States at the time, a mere 75 miles below the Arctic Circle. «Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman, Jul 15»
American Melissa O'Reilly wins ice swim-off in Russian Arctic race
... Mile and the Festival of the North are two sporting events widely associated with the Kola Peninsula region in the Russian Arctic Circle. «Russia Beyond the Headlines, Jul 15»
Dallas dino hunters headed to Arctic Circle for summer
... Alaska, and travel the infamous Dalton Highway ten hours north, where they'll work out of the Tollik Field Station at the Arctic Circle. «WFAA, Jul 15»
