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/sˌɜːkəmpˈəʊlɐ/
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ADJECTIVE
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(of a celestial body) continually visible above the horizon during the entire 360 degrees of daily travel
a circumpolar star - located or found throughout a polar region
How To Use circumpolar In A Sentence
- Polar bears have successfully occupied virtually all available sea ice habitats throughout the circumpolar Arctic and the global population was last estimated at 21,500-25,000 individuals.
- Our Way of Life is comprised of seven different exhibits that form a wide-ranging presentation on the circumpolar world, with an emphasis on the Canadian Arctic and Alaska.
- For mammals with relatively restricted mobility such as lemmings, even small-scale barriers (e.g., large rivers) can form the borders between subspecies [32], while a very mobile animal such as the Arctic fox, which readily moves between continents and islands on sea ice, appears to be relatively panmictic (i.e., shows little genetic structuring) at the circumpolar scale [33]. Genetic responses of arctic species to changes in climate and ultraviolet-B radiation levels
- If so, the U.S. must manage the process so it is environmentally sustainable, coordinated with circumpolar neighbors, and done with the support of local populations. Time to Take Alaska Out of the Icebox
- The deeps of the Pacific, the Atlantic, and Indian Oceans all join the circumpolar deeps of the southern oceans.
- It seems that there have been circumpolar nomads present at least since the last glaciation period, which ended around 10,000 BC.
- And this continuity of the circumpolar land, with the consequent freedom under a more favourable climate for intermigration, will account for the supposed uniformity of the sub-arctic and temperate productions of the Old and New Worlds, at a period anterior to the Glacial epoch. XII. Geographical Distribution. Dispersal During the Glacial Period
- Sometimes called the Northeast Passage, the circumpolar route is a network of sea lanes across the top of continental Eurasia which crosses Russian waters from the Kara Gate to the Bering Strait and trims some 4,000 nautical miles off southern routes. Reuters: Press Release
- David Malone, the president of IDRC, talks about a proposed project to create a “university of the north”, connecting people in circumpolar regions. Global Voices in English » Update from the Harvard Forum on ICT4D
- Arctic char have a circumpolar distribution and more commonly occur in northern waters.