In the 18th century, the great Captain James Cook tried to pierce the mystery of the antarctic regions. From LearnThat.org.
BUt hey, if one area in the centre of the antarctic is getting more snow … surely that must contradict the hundreds of others signals that global warming is real. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » FACT CHECK: National Review’s Cover Story Distorts Facts On Global Warming] Reference
The antarctic sea ice extent exhibits no significant trend. From Wordnik.com. [Climate change FAQs] Reference
Continent, lying almost entirely within the antarctic circle. From Wordnik.com. [Life: Its True Genesis] Reference
The expedition to the antarctic commanded by Lieutenant Ernest. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
The poets have scandalised both the arctic and antarctic regions as. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823] Reference
In order to save her supply of coal for future use she was towed to the antarctic circle. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
By the latter time, and for weeks before, the antarctic sun never rose above the horizon. From Wordnik.com. [A Strange Discovery] Reference
A megaherb community growing on Campbell Island, one of the sub-antarctic islands of New Zealand. From Wordnik.com. [Subantarctic Islands, New Zealand] Reference
Wilkes was the first to discover the so-called mainland of the antarctic continent, in January, 1840. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
As a result, almost all of the sea ice that forms during the antarctic winter melts during the summer. From Wordnik.com. [Sea ice] Reference
In the 2000-01 antarctic summer 12,248 tourists, most of them seaborne, visited the Southern Ocean and. From Wordnik.com. [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference
Both arctic and antarctic sea ice extent are characterized by fairly large variations from year to year. From Wordnik.com. [Sea ice] Reference
In the 1999-2000 antarctic summer 13,193 tourists, most of them seaborne, visited the Southern Ocean and. From Wordnik.com. [The 2001 CIA World Factbook] Reference
I know now what made that antarctic region more than tropical, and what the white curtain was -- and is. From Wordnik.com. [A Strange Discovery] Reference
The area covered by antarctic sea ice has shown a small (not statistically significant) increasing trend. From Wordnik.com. [Sea ice] Reference
In the arctic and antarctic locations where the major ice masses reside, net glaciation may be increasing. From Wordnik.com. [A House Of Cards] Reference
Fundamental information on antarctic physical geography has been collected by the CIA, among other sources. From Wordnik.com. [Antarctica] Reference
I saw at a glance that he had been successful in obtaining from Peters the secrets of his antarctic voyage. From Wordnik.com. [A Strange Discovery] Reference
Brazil well into the southern seas, and so wash the antarctic continent to the eastward of the South Shetlands. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891] Reference
A total of 13,571 tourists visited in the 2002-03 antarctic summer, up from the 11,588 visitors the previous year. From Wordnik.com. [The 2005 CIA World Factbook] Reference
A total of 13,571 tourists visited in the 2002-03 antarctic summer, up from the 11,588 who visited the previous year. From Wordnik.com. [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference
In the arctic and antarctic regions spring and autumn are very brief, the summer is short and the winter of long duration. From Wordnik.com. [The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'] Reference
Great fields of ice and huge icebergs cover the sea in all directions and in winter extend far beyond the antarctic circle. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
He directed that all documents relating to antarctic flights, and to this flight in particular, were to be collected and impounded. From Wordnik.com. [Judgments of the Court of Appeal of New Zealand on Proceedings to Review Aspects of the Report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Mount Erebus Aircraft Disaster C.A. 95/81] Reference
Government to undertake various exploring expeditions, and in carrying out his instructions he made several voyages to the antarctic. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
This bay, or sound, forms a curve in the shore line of Victoria Land, the coast of which is the best known part of the antarctic regions. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
Her antarctic investigations employed ground-based visible absorption techniques that monitored ozone, nitrogen dioxide and chlorine dioxide. From Wordnik.com. [Solomon, Susan] Reference
Another very interesting series of photographs showed the coming and going of the first frost of the season in the antarctic regions of Mars. From Wordnik.com. [To Mars via The Moon An Astronomical Story] Reference
Owing to global circulation patterns, the arctic stratosphere is typically warmer and experiences more mixing than the antarctic stratosphere. From Wordnik.com. [Why assess the impacts of changes in climate and UV radiation in the Arctic] Reference
In the latter part of the eighteenth century ships sailing in the regions north of the antarctic circle discovered whales and fur-bearing seals. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
The months had flown, until it was again December -- the antarctic midsummer month, in which, and the greater part of January, there is no night. From Wordnik.com. [A Strange Discovery] Reference
He was old when the antarctic barbarians were slain, and their remnant sent back to its home on those dreary islands to live forever in blackness. From Wordnik.com. [A Strange Discovery] Reference
The antarctic Treaty has, for the time being, put a ban on any antarctic nuclear testing, radioactive waste disposal, and oil or other mineral drilling. From Wordnik.com. [Antarctic Peninsula] Reference
Twenty years ago, during the antarctic winters of 1986 and 1987, she led the National Ozone Expedition at the National Science Foundation's McMurdo Station. From Wordnik.com. [Solomon, Susan] Reference
"Right you are," responded Eric, who was equally impressed with the magic scene -- in spite of his disclaimer about having seen a better sunrise in antarctic seas. From Wordnik.com. [Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes] Reference
Thus the antarctic continent and South America would be connected by an isthmus of ice, and consequently the independent circulation of the Southern Ocean arrested. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891] Reference
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