High latitude

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(Geog.)	one designated by the higher figures; consequently, a latitude remote from the equator. - F. Harrison.
	that part of the earth's surface near either pole, esp. that part within either the arctic or the antarctic circle.

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For a true expression of dishevelled wildness there is nothing like a gale in the bright moonlight of a high latitude.

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221), in the same high latitude as here, namely, in both cases, in 47 degs.

The Voyage of the Beagle by Darwin, Charles View in context

The imprisonment of Wolf Larsen had happened most opportunely, for what must have been the Indian summer of this high latitude was gone and drizzling stormy weather had set in.

The Sea Wolf by London, Jack View in context

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