It has had its forts within the Arctic Circle; it has successfully exploited a country larger than the United States.
The coroner had heard that Elenor Murray Once crossed the Arctic Circle.
They tell me that you cross The Arctic Circle going to St. Michael, And I must cross the Arctic Circle--think To come this far and miss it.
Six weeks or more a letter came from her, She crossed the Arctic Circle, went to Nome, Sailed back to 'Frisco where she wrote to me.
Except for the foot-tracks on the road by which they had come, and the peak of the lighthouse within sight, it would have seemed that a colony had suddenly sprung to life in an uninhabited Arctic region.
The most valuable portions of the book are those which relate to the scientific and practical observations made in the course of the expedition, and the descriptions of scenery and incidents of arctic travel.
Among her officers were Samuel Flinders, second lieutenant and brother of Matthew, and a midshipman named John Franklin, afterwards Sir John Franklin, the Arctic explorer and at one time governor of Tasmania.
The submarine flora struck me as being very perfect, and richer even than it would have been in the arctic or tropical zones, where these productions are not so plentiful.
Such men in the bellows of one's mind break out rubber dinghies in quickening escape thru the maw of anArctic sea.
A few miles up the Dart another Arctic navigator--Sir Humphrey Gilbert-- was born.
This is what we did that winter at Chinik, the home of the Eskimo, in that far away spot near the Arctic Sea.
One more day of travel and their long, hazardous, and eventful trip of two hundred miles over an Arctic waste would be successfully accomplished.
From Montevideo to Canton, from Gibraltar to San Francisco, from Cape of Good Hope to the Arctic Ocean; thus ran his itinerary year after year.
They are soon to be cooked, for they are the Arctic winter birds and make good eating.
Then followed long and weary weeks of convalescing, while the winter storms raged outside the little cabin, and the sun retreated farther from the Arctic Circle and Nome, but the sisters thanked God, and again took courage.
Arctic explorers have always found it a difficult matter to keep pleasantly and profitably employed during the long winter months, and I have often wondered how it would be with ourselves.
If we should be frozen in all winter, with no way of letting our friends at home know of our whereabouts for six months, how terrible would be their anxiety, how hard for us in this exposed spot near the Arctic Sea!
These furs were sold in San Francisco, and other trips were made to the Arctic Northwest.
Nothing, not even the hard work, the storms, nor the bitter Arctic winter which came afterwards ever effaced from my memory the beautiful pictures of river, sea and sky repeatedly displayed during those first novel and busy days at Nome.
Like a Peele, or a "tremblor" this Arctic king gathers his forces, more mighty than armies in battle, and sweeps all opponents before him.
In the northern regions, he preys on carrion, in concert with the white bear, the arctic fox, and the eagle.
This animal chiefly inhabits the arctic seas, and its food is said to consist of the smaller kinds of flat fish and other marine animals; its horn is useful in breaking away the ice when it wants to come up to breathe.
The fur becomes pure white in the winter, and in this state the Arctic Fox is an exceedingly pretty animal.
Still farther north, where the forest dies away, lie the Barren Grounds, which merge on their northern border with the frozen morasses or tundra of the arctic coastal plain.
As many arcticexplorers testify, it is dangerous to man and will lead in an attack.
A series of mountain ranges embracing all of the more elevated country on the east side of the continent from Georgia northward to the arctic archipelago, and in this book termed the Atlantic Mountains.
Many species of the seal family occur about the entire coast-line from Panama to the Arctic Ocean.
On the continental shelf off Point Barrow, the most northern portion of the arctic shore of Alaska (latitude 71 deg.
On the Atlantic coast from Maine to Labrador, and thence northward to the Arctic Ocean, there are numerous examples of fiords, as is also the case on the Pacific coast from Mount St. Elias to Puget Sound.
This was during the Pleistocene division of geological history, when glacial ice covered all of Canada and the arctic animals were crowded southward.
The life of the Arctic Ocean has been but inadequately studied, but enough is known concerning it to show that a promising field there awaits the naturalist.
This region of essentially level plateaus, extending as it does from the hot lands of eastern Mexico nearly to the arctic circle, presents great diversity of climate and also well-marked variations in the secondary features of its relief.
Nearly all of the Arctic Ocean adjacent to the coast of America is as yet unexplored, and we have therefore no direct testimony as to its flora and fauna.
Its range is over the Barren Grounds of Canada, the islands of the arctic archipelago, and the border of Greenland.
Seaweeds are not absent from the Arctic Ocean, although its shores, owing to the destructive action of ice, usually seem exceedingly barren, and the lower or smaller forms of algae float in the waters in abundance.
His dark beard was grizzled with frost; his cheeks were gaunt with the privations of a long, arctic winter spent amid endless snows, in darkness unrelieved, smitten by storms, struggling with savage beasts and harried by more inhuman men.
It was verily a voyage to be remembered; and perhaps it returned in a vision to his dimming eyes, that day he steered his open boat through the arctic surges of Hudson's Bay.
It seemed almost too good to be true: it was like the sun rising after the long arctic night.
We saw a few Arctic Ground Finches and two Wolves.
Sprague went across the hills eastward, and was fortunate enough to shoot a superb specimen of the Arctic Bluebird.
On our way homeward Bell shot a fifth Lark, and when we reached the ravine I cut out of a tree-stump the nest of an Arctic Bluebird, with six eggs in it, of almost the same size and color as those of the common Bluebird.
Harris and Bell had their guns, and brought two Arctic Towhee Buntings and a Black-billed Cuckoo.
The Lazuli Finches and Arctic Bluebirds sang in our view; but though we beat all the clumps of low bushes where the Rabbits must go in, whether during night or day, we did not start one.
All the deer were stripping the trees of bark and moss in secret coverts; even the Arctic fox kept secluded behind the tops of trees buried in the snow, so that they seemed mere topknots of Indians.
All the beasts were hibernating or asleep; all the birds gone south except the Arctic robins and the sedately soaring eagles, whose white heads seemed frosted and presented to the sun to be freed of the chill.
As regards its fauna Long Island is a meeting-place for equatorial and arctic species of birds and fish; in winter it is visited occasionally by the auk and in summer sometimes by the turkey buzzard.
They showed more analogy with thearctic than with the alpine type.
If we compare the alpine flora with the arctic plants, a high degree of similarity at once strikes us.
The arctic climate is cold, but wet, and the structure of the leaves is correspondingly loose, though the plants become [443] as small as on the Alps.
Many arctic forms bearing the specific name of alpinus justify this conclusion.
After excluding these unreliable instances, a good number of species remain, which are quite the same in the arcticand alpine regions and on the summits of distant mountain ranges.
Much farther back is the separation of the species which now live both in arctic regions and on the summits of our highest mountaintops.
In connection with these studies on the influences of alpine climates, Bonnier has investigated the internal structure of arctic plants, and made a series of experiments on growth in continuous electric light.
Crow Man was subdued for that time, but in the fall he sent the blackbird northward to call out all the Arcticforces to come and help keep Thunder Chief from coming to earth to carry back his wife.
Thunder Chief hurried forward, but the Arctic Forces ran out from their hiding-places and fell upon Thunder Chief, just as he was waiting to enfold his beloved in his cloak.
He had come from the shores of the Arctic Ocean, where his tribe dwelt, a distance of above six hundred miles, and asked some questions on religious subjects.
Ninoo" is the monarch of thesearctic deserts, as the lion is of those of the South.
Another arctic traveller has suggested that they are "the missing link between a Saxon and a seal.
The arctic regions, though ill-adapted for the abode of man, teem with animal life.
He is at present once more in the arctic regions, having returned thither in order to prosecute his enterprise.
Around them lay a rugged scene of sub-Arctic grandeur.
With November winter fell upon the land in all its sub-Arctic rigour.
The Arctic fox is smaller than ours; even the soles of his feet are covered with fur, like those of the hare, and he is altogether more thickly clothed.
It can be collected on the Arctic and Alpine snows.
Of beetles alone there are at least a hundred thousand distinct species now living, while in some parts of sub-arctic America mosquitoes are sometimes so excessively abundant that they obscure the sun.
Yet they show the same phenomena as regards climate, since the corals and cephalopodous mollusca found in the Arctic beds closely resemble those of all other parts of the earth.
The arcticregions are inhabited because there is a summer, and during that summer there is vegetation.
Strictly in keeping with the mean traditions of the Arctic is the fact that the point of departure of the final mutiny was a wrangle that arose over the ownership of "a gray cloth gowne.
Never was there a more terrible example of the demoralizing effects of the conditions of Arctic life and privations upon men who in other circumstances were able to dwell at peace with their fellows.
And then the Arctic night closed down upon them: and with it the certainty that they were prisoners in that desolate freezing darkness until the sun should come again and set them free.
Occasionally the wind veered, then brought along from the Arctic shores icy blasts, which angrily bit with foretaste of approaching winter.
The limb, frozen by the rigours of Arctic cold, is wax-like, cold, and dead to feeling.
An otter cap had taken the place of summer's straw bonnet; thick woollen gloves wadded his great hands; above the breeches he wore Arctic socks, secured at the knee with gaudy little tassels.
If he allowed it to slip, he would be chained down to the lonely regions for many months during the intense cold of the Arctic winter.
Below them lay the Arctic Ocean, buried beneath frozen chaos.
The awful panorama of the Arctic which their elevation spread out before them made a profound impression upon the explorers.
During their sojourn in the Arctic regions the men were allowed to grow the full beard, except under the mouth, where it was clipped short.
