Alces machlis, the Elk or Moose, is a circumpolar species with palmated antlers and is of large size.
The Glutton, Gulo, is a well-marked genus, containing but one species, which is circumpolar in range.
It could not have been intended to be used for observing meridian transits of the stars in order to determine sidereal time; for close circumpolar stars, by reason of their slow motion, are the least suited of all for such a purpose.
The existence of a rich flora in the Eocene beds of circumpolar regions in the northern hemisphere should be noted, though perhaps its importance has been somewhat exaggerated.
When are the circumpolar constellations visible in northern latitudes?
Around what star do the stars of the northern circumpolar region appear to revolve?
What are some of the more remarkable sights in the southern circumpolar region of the sky?
The opposite to the upper transit of a circumpolar star: the passage sub polo.
The passage of a circumpolarstar over the meridian above the pole; the opposite of the lower transit.
This is done most effectually by observing the vertical movement of a close circumpolar star when at its greatest azimuth.
By virtue of this moisture the winds do a good deal to transfer heat from the tropical or superheated portion of the earth's surface to the circumpolar or underheated realms.
The effect of this action is gradually to press down the surface cold water until it attains the very bottom in all the circumpolar regions.
If all the cold water of circumpolar regions had to journey over the surface to the equator, the perturbing effect of its flow on the climates of various lands would be far greater than it is at present.
A larger portion stagnates in the circumpolar region, in time slowly to return to the tropical district in a manner afterward to be described.
Seventeen species are circumpolar in distribution; 17 are endemic to Beringia, and 8 have origins in the North Pacific.
Clangula hyemalis) are widespread, and circumpolar or nearly so; hunting and down-robbing in other parts of the Arctic may provide clues as to their relative tolerance of primitive or advanced civilization.
Of the four circumpolar species the two Uria guillemots (murres) are important.
It appears in the same way on the Lenox globe, and in the circumpolar MS.
The remaining three constellations of the circumpolar group are, as we have seen before, visible in the north.
He now built an observatory of his own at Redhill in Surrey, with the design of completing Bessel's and Argelander's survey of the northern heavens by adding to it the circumpolar stars omitted from their view.
Of the sixty-one species of birds breeding in Greenland, eight are European-Asiatic, four are American, and the rest circumpolar or North Atlantic and North Pacific in their distribution.
The editor was Charles Amoretti, who added a discourse, expressing his belief in it, together with a circumpolarmap marking Maldonado’s track.
East of Greenland, and separated from it by a strait, is a circumpolar land which has these words: “Pygmei hic habitant.
He explained the circumpolar uniformity which it shows, and the prevalence of Scandinavian types, together with the peculiarly limited nature of the Flora of the southward peninsula of Greenland.
We have seen how on the Antarctic voyage Hooker had the opportunity of collecting on all the great circumpolar areas of the Southern Hemisphere.
But it brought this secondary consequence; that Hooker had the chance of observing and collecting upon all the great circumpolar areas of the southern hemisphere.
He pointed out that the conditions which dictated circumpolar distribution are absent from them; but that other conditions exist in them which account for the strange features which their vegetation shows.
Certainly all visions of a circumpolar sea blessed with a gentle atmosphere and eternal tranquillity, and offering a smooth and easy passage for the world's commerce between Europe and Asia, had been for ever dispelled.
Barendz, retaining his opinion that the true inlet to the circumpolar sea, if it existed, would be found N.
This is the largest of them all, the White-billed Diver, Colymbus adamsi, and a species apparently circumpolar in its distribution.
Three out of the four species of Arctic Skuas are circumpolar in their distribution; the fourth may possibly be so.
Oval features, a mixture of red in the complexion, an aquiline nose, have all been observed amongst the more favoured of the Circumpolar men and women.
Range--Circumpolar regions; northern United States; occasional in Middle States; abundant in winter as far as Kansas and the Rocky Mountains.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "circumpolar" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
