antarctic

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I felt an antarctic chill travel through my entire body, mixed with tears and a myriad of indescribable emotions.

From Salon • Nov. 22, 2020

“But sometimes the antarctic eyes glance down” unrolls with such rhythmic authority that it stops you wondering whether arctic eyes would be any different.

From The Guardian • Sep. 26, 2020

In 1950, giant kelp stretched over 9 million square meters in a thick band along Tasmania’s coast, said Cayne Layton, a research fellow at the marine and antarctic institute.

From Washington Post • Dec. 26, 2019

“England is in the gallery, the tropics in the upper circle, Australia on the dress circle and the antarctic in the pit,” he wrote.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 24, 2019

In this way, for example, it has been suggested that a land, “Lemuria,” once connected Madagascar with the Malay Archipelago, and that a northern extension of the antarctic land once united the three southern continents.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various