Sentence examples for Frigid Zone from inspiring English sources
noun
Either of two zones of the Earth that lie between the poles and either the Arctic Circle or the Antarctic Circle
The Antarctic Circle, which separates the South Frigid Zone from the South Temperate Zone, was first crossed by Captain James Cook on January 17 , 1773
Though the work was largely a borrowing from Greek sources and contained information that was frequently obsolete, it was unique among the ancient geographies in that it divided the Earth, which Mela placed at the centre of the universe, into five zones: a northern frigid zone, a northern temperate zone, a torrid zone, a southern temperate zone, and a southern frigid zone.
Photo surveys have provided reasonably accurate maps, and improved aircraft and base facilities are making the once formidable "frigid zone" increasingly accessible; commercial airlines fly across the North Pole.
Canada wants someday to tap natural gas in the Beaufort Sea in a frigid zone, bordering Alaska and Yukon Territory, which the United States tried to auction off to oil companies last year.
With its latitude spanning approximately 50 degrees, the climate varies from the tropical and subtropical zones in the south to the Frigid Zone in the north and temperature differs strikingly from -30 °C in the Northeast in winter, yet 15°C in the far South.
His ancestors were Frisian whale hunters and sailors; he's got the frigid zones in his bones.
For large-scale milk production, goats are inferior to cattle in the temperate zone but superior in the torrid and frigid zones.
C. furca is distributed in oceans around the world, from tropical to frigid zones (Fukuyo et al. 1990).
The maximum biomass of 2.6 to 10 g C per square meter occurred on the shelves of the north frigid zones (e.g. Kara Sea, Siberian Sea, and Chukchi/Bering Sea) and temperate areas (e.g. Yellow sea and North Sea, see Figure 7, red color).
No clinics were located in frigid zones (beyond 66.5° North or South, respectively).
For a group of patients in the public hospital here it was a frigid, barren zone where they said they were terrorized by American airstrikes.
