How to Use circumpolar in a Sentence

circumpolar

adjective

• This suggests that the circumpolar deep water may melt more ice in winter that in summer.
  — Kasha Patel, Smithsonian, 13 July 2018
• At the same time, Iqaluit—like its circumpolar neighbors—faces a housing crisis of a different sort.
  — Melody Schreiber, WIRED, 14 May 2018
• The maps in the exhibition date show the circumpolar region as far back as the 16th century -- when there were many more blank spots in the cartography.
  — Anchorage Museum, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Oct. 2021
• Indigenous voices must be heard and those of the circumpolar region have urgent, vital and powerful stories of the kind the world has not yet heard or seen.
  — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 20 Sep. 2021
• The games, first held in 1970, are a biennial gathering of young athletes from circumpolar regions around the globe.
  — Beth Bragg, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Apr. 2021
• Weddell seals dive up to 2,000 feet deep, into the top layer of circumpolar deepwater.
  — Stephen Witt, WIRED, 25 June 2019
• Outside the museum’s front doors, music from around the circumpolar north plays on outdoor speakers.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 12 Aug. 2021
• Most of this melting is occurring on Antarctica’s western side, where the circumpolar current comes closest to the coast.
  — New York Times, 13 Dec. 2021
• For Marie-Andrée, melting sea ice is the most pressing concern in the circumpolar region related to climate change.
  — Devi Lockwood, Wired, 21 Sep. 2021
• When South America and Australia drifted north, splitting away from Antarctica, a path was cleared for a new circumpolar current.
  — Devon Bidal, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Feb. 2022
• The events teach competitors to respect their fellow athletes, which can have real-life applications in the circumpolar north, where severe weather can force people to rely on each other.
  — Mark Thiessen, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Apr. 2018
• The events teach competitors to respect their fellow athletes, which can have real-life applications in the circumpolar north, where harsh conditions can force people to rely on each other.
  — Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2018
• The reference was not to the polar bear, unknown in Europe until the eighteenth century, but to Ursa Major, the most prominent circumpolar constellation in the northern skies.
  — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 24 Apr. 2017
• An unusual configuration of high and low pressure systems had pushed the circumpolar winds directly over the mountains of the Antarctic Peninsula rather than deflecting them to the north as usual.
  — National Geographic, 15 Nov. 2016
• An unusual configuration of high and low pressure systems had pushed the circumpolar winds directly over the mountains of the Antarctic Peninsula rather than deflecting them to the north as usual.
  — National Geographic, 15 Nov. 2016
• Seals tagged nearby in 2014 recorded new pathways where circumpolar deepwater was making its way onto the continental shelf.
  — Stephen Witt, WIRED, 25 June 2019
• Scientists think changing wind patterns are pushing a mass of middepth warm water, called circumpolar deepwater, up from the deep ocean and onto the continental shelf in front of Antarctica and toward Thwaites.
  — Adam Rogers, WIRED, 6 Aug. 2019
• An insect biologist once said that extreme cold and biting flies maintain the circumpolar north's low human population.
  — Ned Rozell, Alaska Dispatch News, 15 July 2017
• The Transit System used six satellites in circumpolar orbits, calculating the Doppler shift of radio signals to ascertain position.
  — Randy Alfred, WIRED, 8 Dec. 2008
• The Arctic Report Card compiles observations from across the circumpolar North, analyzing them within a polar projection of our planet.
  — Matthew Druckenmiller, The Conversation, 14 Dec. 2021
• Other circumpolar regions face infrastructure challenges from the warming earth.
  — Melody Schreiber, WIRED, 14 May 2018
• But marine life is astonishingly abundant thanks to the Antarctic Convergence, a circumpolar strip of merging oceans marked by an upwelling of deep, nutrient-rich waters that nourish a phenomenal profusion of phytoplankton and, in turn, krill.
  — Christopher P. Baker, Travel + Leisure, 2 Mar. 2022

Last Updated: 16 Oct 2024