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Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
Antarctic
Britannica 11thANTARCTIC (Gr. dirl, opposite, and &pxrot, the Bear, the northern constellation of Una Major), the epithet applied to the region (including both the ocean and the lands) round the South Pole. The Antarctic circle is drawn at 66° 30' S., but polar conditions of ...
Vol. 2, pp. 89-89
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Arctic
Britannica 11thARCTIC (Gr. "Apxrot, the Bear, the northern constellation of Ursa Major), the epithet applied to the region round the North Pole, covering the area (both ocean and lands) where the characteristic polar conditions of climate, tic., obtain. The Arctic Circle is
Vol. 2, pp. 447-447
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Eocene
Britannica 11th... ralia and perhaps Africa may have been connected more or less direclly with the Antarctic continent. Associated, no doubt, with the crustal movements which closed the Cretaceous and inaugurated the Eocene period, there were local and intermittent manifestation ...
Vol. 9, pp. 661-664
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