The part visible in our latitudes does not contain bright stars, but at the southern extremity is the first-magnitude Achernar, a conspicuous object to southern observers.
The drakes of the nearest breeding pairs at lower latitudes are back to the sea, abandoning their mates at the breeding stream when the alpine stream-dwellers are still at sea awaiting the thawing of their breeding grounds.
The low density of pelagic fishes in high arctic areas probably also accounts for the greater success of the thick-billed murre at higher latitudes relative to common murres.
At higher latitudes the small alcids have overcome this disadvantage by swamping predators through their sheer numbers.
Thermoregulatory capabilities in cold weather are better in ducklings of species nesting at high latitudes than at lower ones (Koskimies and Lahti 1964), and the same may be true of gull species (Dawson et al.
A relatively small number of avian species have evolved to take advantage of this seasonally available food supply, and the ability to migrate to lower latitudes in winter is a characteristic of most arctic-nesting species.
Myriads of birds migrate to and fro between their breeding-places in the interior of Alaska, the open Arctic Sea, and the warmer latitudes of the south.
Except in very high latitudes this base must be somewhat elevated, for like mountain glaciers ice caps are nourished by the surface air currents, and their snows are deposited above the snow line.
Within high latitudes the snow is found nearer the sea level, and glaciers are for the most part correspondingly sluggish in their movements as well as less active denuding agents.
The pluvial periods in which this bench was formed produced in other latitudes the great continental glaciers which wrought such marvelous changes in northern North America and in northern Europe.
Because of the low temperatures glaciers should be most abundant or most extensive in highlatitudes and in high altitudes.
This is the piedmont glacier, a type found to-day in the high latitudesof Alaska and in the southern Andes (Fig.
At the margin of the pack these floes become separated and float toward lower latitudes until they are melted.
Again in low latitudes the high and pointed volcanic peaks may push up beyond the snow line into the upper atmosphere, and so become snow-capped.
In the temperate climates of middlelatitudes rivers are generally flooded in the spring when the winter snows are melted, though they may dwindle to comparatively small streams during the late summer.
In much lower latitudes and in regions of insufficient rainfall, the same structures are impressed upon the relief, but by other weathering processes.
In both the northern and southern hemispheres those bergs which have floated into lower latitudes have suffered profound transformations.
Rock surfaces which are exposed to the atmosphere are in high latitudes broken down through the freezing of water within their crevices.
It was our first love; our first tropical experience; the gateway to those mystical latitudes of enchantment, the South Pacific.
Luckily, the Tahitian pig, cooked in island fashion, is as much above the average porker of temperate latitudes as the Tahitian broiler falls below the standard in his class.
We talked frequently of the main purpose of our adventure, the discovery of a southern continent, the captain intending, when we left the island, to sail southwards by west, into latitudes to which his charts gave him very little guide.
He sought me after sunset (in those latitudes it falls dark about seven o'clock), when the men were at their supper, and he might talk to me unobserved.
The latitudes of the two most prominent capes of this bay are calculated from the observations of this day.
But even in northern latitudes the American coast is not without vegetation.
I quote from Blodget on the “Climatology of the United States and of the Temperate Latitudes of the North American Continent.
Jordan was most imperfect, and the map, which presents no latitudes or longitudes, is much distorted.
I therefore arranged a plan of operations founded on a determination of the absolute latitudes and the difference of longitudes of the two extremities.
I knew that great pains had been taken in giving to the principal triangulation a degree of accuracy never before reached, and in fixing the astronomical latitudes of many stations with unequalled precision.
I have various investigations about the Earth, supposed to project at middle latitudes above the elliptical form.
It has even been observed," remarked Harding one day to his companions, "that in equal latitudes the islands and coast regions are less tried by the cold than inland countries.
Yes," said Herbert, "and icebergs are met with in lower latitudes in the south than in the north of the Pacific.
The full moonlight of the lower latitudes was incomparable with the Arctic night.
A western wind in these latitudes was little less terrible than when it blew from the north.
It was the melting spring of temperate latitudes transposed to the confines of the Arctic Circle.
The mottled kingfisher occurs throughout, but is commoner in southern latitudes of India.
The altitudes for the latitudes were taken with the sextant and the artificial horizon, and the results throughout are so nearly coincident, that it may be relied on the latitudes herein given are correct to within half a minute in space.
The subjoined Table contains the latitudes and the altitudes of the principal stations passed through by the late Dr.
Heights andLatitudes of the Stations visited in Affghanistan.
These birds form two distinct groups, confined to the tropical latitudes of the Old and the New World.
The insects composing this group, have only been discovered in the hot latitudes of America.
We should have to seek land of the austral zone under higher latitudes without being sure of ever coming across it!
His face was as livid as that of the corpse that had drifted down from the far latitudes of the austral zone.
No navigator had ever reached latitudes so high--not even James Weddell of the British Navy, who did not get beyond the seventy-fourth parallel in 1822.
In our northern latitudes it is found that during the six hours from nine o'clock at night until three in the morning the direction of the magnet remains nearly the same.
The nearest star of all, Alpha Centauri, visible only in latitudes south of our middle ones, is perhaps half as far as Bessel's star, while Sirius and one or two others are nearly at the same distance.
With this speed it would make the circuit of our globe in two minutes, and had it gone round and round in our latitudes we should have seen it fly past us a number of times since I commenced this discourse.
The northern hemisphere being the seat of civilization, that portion of the sky which could not be seen from our latitudeswas comparatively neglected.
This work of Thome extends to fainter stars than any other yet attempted, so that, as it goes on, we have more stars listed in a region invisible in middle northern latitudes than we have for that part of the sky we can see.
Deep wells and mines show everywhere an increase in temperature below the surface shell affected by the heat of summer and the cold of winter,--a shell in temperate latitudes sixty or seventy feet thick.
It is on mountain tops and in high latitudes that the effects of frost are most plainly seen.
In short, their only method of recruiting their water is by the rains, which they meet with between the latitudes of 30 deg.
This, according to our conceptions, appears to be a very absurd restriction, since it can scarcely be doubted but that in the higher latitudes the westerly winds are much steadier and brisker than in the latitude of 30 degrees.
India on this side of the Ganges, between the latitudes of 5° 30' and 9° N.
It is remarkable that the hurricanes are less frequent as we approach the higher latitudes in either hemisphere, so that they are not to be feared beyond the lat.
These islands are situated between the latitudes of 15° and 16° S.
One would expect the weather to be much hotter here; but there is no proportion between the heat of this part of America and the same latitudes in Africa.
Their departure is seemingly more sudden than their advent, their appearance in diverse latitudes happening at regular intervals.
On the approach of winter these birds desert the northern and middle sections of our country, and mostly retire to warm southern latitudes beyond Virginia.
In Florida they are found at all seasons, but mostly in the higher latitudes of the State during the breeding-season.
They had carefully measured latitudes and longitudes and noted the variations of the magnet.
The quantity of rain that falls in these latitudes is something almost incredible.
Macao is a favourite resort of the foreigners settled in Hong-kong for change of air, which in these latitudes seems to be even more necessary than in Europe.
Southern soldiers have learned that alllatitudes breed courage on this continent.
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