Definition of Arctic Archipelago

1. Noun. All the islands that lie to the north of mainland Canada and the Arctic Circle.

Group relationships: Canada
Generic synonyms: Archipelago

Lexicographical Neighbors of Arctic Archipelago

Archimedean spiral
Archimedean spirals
Archimedes
Archimedes' principle
Archimedes screw
Archimedes screws
Archite
Archosargus
Archosargus probatocephalus
Archosargus rhomboidalis
Archosauria
Archæan
Archæozoic
Arcidae
Arctic
Arctic Archipelago (current term)
Arctic Circle
Arctic Ocean
Arctic Sea
Arctic Skuas
Arctic Zone
Arctic char
Arctic chars
Arctic cod
Arctic ground squirrel
Arctic hare
Arctic loon
Arctic loons
Arctic mouse-ear
Arctic skua

Literary usage of Arctic Archipelago

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1873)
"It will be seen, furthermore, that this Arctic archipelago is nearly on the opposite meridian to the Pole of that promontory of Asia which I have before ..."

2. Igneous Rocks: Composition, Texture and Classification, Description and by Joseph Paxson Iddings (1913)
"THE Arctic Archipelago AND GREENLAND This region consists in large part of pre-Cambrian crystalline rocks, both igneous and metamorphic, but only limited ..."

3. The Earth and Its Inhabitants by Élisée Reclus (1890)
"THE Arctic Archipelago. HE numerous islands which continue the American continent ... This Arctic Archipelago is readily decomposed into several perfectly ..."

4. America in Spitsbergen: The Romance of an Arctic Coal-mine, with an by Nathan Haskell Dole (1922)
"... I. AN Arctic Archipelago i. THE MAKING OF A LAND OUR TINY world, spinning around the Sun and accompanying it in its mysterious unknown journey through ..."

5. Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of London by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) (1873)
"It will be seen, furthermore, that this Arctic archipelago is nearly on the opposite meridian to the Pole of that promontory of Asia which I have before ..."

6. Permafrost: North American Contribution [to The] Second International Conference by Building Research Advisory Board Staff (1973)
"Judge postulates from currently available ground temperature and geothermal data obtained in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago that the permafrost is thickest ..."

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