hyperborean
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Photograph: Apic/Getty In Barry Lopez's haunting, poetic book about the hyperborean realms, Arctic Dreams, there's a magnificent story about an Inuit family who are washed out to the seas on a calved iceberg.
From The Guardian • Jan. 31, 2013
The next place we entered was one more suited to a hyperborean climate than an Antiguan noonday — a blacksmith’s shop.
From Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume I (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day by Anonymous
The light hung over the hyperborean landscape as if loath to leave.
From With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 1 by Various
For example, Amable Grignon, a Green Bay trader, wintered in 1818 at Lac qui Parle in Minnesota, the next year at Lake Athabasca, and the third in the hyperborean regions of Great Slave Lake.
From The Character and Influence of the Indian Trade in Wisconsin by Turner, Frederick Jackson
Land of a thousand sea-kings' graves,— Those tameless spirits of the past, Fierce as their subject arctic waves, Or hyperborean blast,— Though polar billows round thee foam, I love thee!—thou wert once my home.
From The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland by Symonds, W. S. (William Samuel)
