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Definition of Arctic archipelago
1. Noun. All the islands that lie to the north of mainland Canada and the Arctic Circle.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Arctic Archipelago
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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