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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A group of more than 36,000 islands of northern Canada in the Arctic Ocean between North America and Greenland. Baffin Island is the largest; Ellesmere Island is the northernmost.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun all the islands that lie to the north of mainland Canada and the Arctic Circle
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Examples
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Other coincidences include but are not limited to: 1. The Tule culture which spread eastward from Northern Alaska, across the Arctic Archipelago about 1,000 years ago and then later disappeared.
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British Government transferred to Canada all its rights and claims over the islands in the Arctic Archipelago and all other British territory in North America save Newfoundland and its strip of Labrador.
The Canadian Dominion; a chronicle of our northern neighbor Oscar Douglas Skelton 1909
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When this motion is completely arrested, I suggest that we blow up the Aleutian Isles and enlarge Bering Strait, so as to allow what corresponds to the Atlantic Gulf Stream in the Pacific to enter the Arctic Archipelago, which I have calculated will raise the average temperature of that entire region about thirty degrees, thereby still further increasing the amount of available land.
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Stream in the Pacific to enter the Arctic Archipelago, which I have calculated will raise the average temperature of that entire region about thirty degrees, thereby still further increasing the amount of available land.
A journey in other worlds A romance of the future John Jacob Astor 1888
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No further attempt will be made here to prove the necessity for a tract of land, an archipelago, or an area of very shallow water situated between the present Arctic Archipelago and Siberia.
The North Pole Its Discovery in 1909 under the auspices of the Peary Arctic Club 1888
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Arctic Archipelago to the marginal waters off the portion of the coast of Siberia lying east of the New Siberian Islands.
The North Pole Its Discovery in 1909 under the auspices of the Peary Arctic Club 1888
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Arctic Archipelago to the Arctic Ocean, and then easterly along the northern coast of Grant Land to Cape Columbia.
The North Pole Its Discovery in 1909 under the auspices of the Peary Arctic Club 1888
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McClure was knighted and showered with cash - the legacies of both are bound by a watery historical note: their ships lie on the ocean floor beneath Canada's Arctic Archipelago.
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McClure was knighted and showered with cash - the legacies of both are bound by a watery historical note: their ships lie on the ocean floor beneath Canada's Arctic Archipelago.
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On the Arctic Archipelago and the northern mainland is the tundra, with its mosses and lichen, permafrost, near-year-round snow cover, and ice fields.
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