"Polar region" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Flammarion, there are about seven thousand stars visible to the naked eye, and of these twenty are stars of the first magnitude. Fourteen of them are visible in the latitude of New York, the others (those starred) belong to the South Polar region of the sky. The following table of the brightest stars is taken from the Revised Harvard Photometry of 1908, the ...
— Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts • Girl Scouts
... they noticed through their glasses that several apparently island peaks in the southern hemisphere, which was turned towards them, became white, from which they concluded that a snow-storm was in progress. The south polar region was also markedly glaciated, though the icecap was not as extensive as either of those at ...
— A Journey in Other Worlds - A Romance of the Future • John Jacob Astor |
