Sentences with phrase «arctic circle»

The subject of these works were arctic circle weather stations, usually inhabited by one lone, isolated figure.

In the later case the female Eiders pluck down from their own breast to line the nest to keep her offspring warm in the northern arctic circle.

Good thing the Olympics are not held above the ARCTIC CIRCLE when the SUN DOES N'T SET for a month or more in the summer!

We on the other hand are playing a bunch of reindeer herders somewhere in the arctic circle on some dark February night... Thanks Arsene and his followers of 4th place junkies

Anyway, after my brave excursion through the arctic circle (my block) I went back to my nice warm apartment to catch up on Better Late Than Never.

At the time the Prince Creek Formation was deposited, it was located well above the paleo - arctic circle, about 80 degrees north latitude.

After a flight of 10 months and 422 million miles, NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander last May executed a flawless seven - minute descent through the Red Planet's thin atmosphere to touch down north of its arctic circle.

However, research at Umeå University's climate research centre in Abisko and University of Antwerp shows that alien plants are no longer rare above the arctic circle.

Not quite in the arctic circle, but we're kissing it.

I've led survival expeditions above the arctic circle in Sweden.

Darren continues: «There is a lot of interest in trips to the arctic circle in Finland.

A solar panel will work (just not as efficiently) during any daylight conditions, so as long as monsoon season is not a few months of night time (as it could be in the arctic circle) then I think it would still work.

In the far north, deep in the arctic circle, lies the frozen island Heorik.

Henry Drax is a harpooner on the Volunteer, a Yorkshire whaler bound for the rich hunting waters of the arctic circle.

The Arctic breeds (like Siberian Huskies) could have easily made this list if most of us lived above the arctic circle, but anywhere warm they require maintenance of their thick coats — they are prone to hot spots and ticks.

Most of Greenland is uninhabitable, with frozen tundra reaching far into the arctic circle.

We crossed the arctic circle which is marked with a globe, which was pretty cool.

It's a place in the arctic circle in very northern Russia, right next to the arctic ocean.

The artist is currently working on a three - year project documenting and modeling changing landforms above the arctic circle, including sites in northern Iceland, Siberia, Greenland, and arctic Alaska.

So while, tropical forest inside the arctic circle is not necessarily a negative on its own merits, the ecological turmoil that the planet will go through before we are nice and relatively settled again, at whatever climate, will prove very hard to endure.

The result: the Himalayas ended up causing a huge carbon sink, dropping earth's temperatures and ruining a bunch of perfectly good tropical beaches in the arctic circle.

Aren't there tropical fossils in the arctic circle?

BTW, I did think about length of day — the areas just poleward of the arctic circles get a bit more daylight thanks to refraction of the atmosphere, though that's not germane.

According to a recent study, Canucks would be willing to contribute $ 6.3 billion towards saving the arctic circle's 15,000 remaining polar bears; That amounts to an impressive $ 400 thousand per bear!