Opposite to the northern or arctic pole; relating to the southern pole or to the region near it, and applied especially to a lesser circle, distant from the pole 23 degrees 28'. Thus we say the antarctic pole, antarctic circle, or antarctic region.
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Opposite to the northern or arctic pole; relating to the southern pole or to the region near it, and applied especially to a circle, distant from the pole 23¡ 28/. Thus we say the antarctic pole, circle, ocean, region, current, etc.
Antarctic ocean
Encyclopedia Britannica
ANTARCTIC OCEAN, a name that should, strictly speaking, be applied only to the ice-bound sea to the south of the antarctic circle; in practice, however, it is usually vaguely extended so as to include more or less of the cold regions round the south pole, without reference to the· circle. As compared with the corresponding Arctic Ocean, little is known about this portion of the earth’s surface; but it is sufficiently clear that the cold and the dangers to navigation in the southern ocean greatly exceed those of the northern, and that human beings and most other animals cannot, or at least do not, ordinarily subsist within its limits. See Polar Regions.
9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 2, p. 100
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Contraposition Roget’s Thesaurus §237
N. contraposition, opposition, # polarity, inversion, opposite side, reverse, inverse, counterpart, antipodes, opposite poles, north and south, antonym, opposite (contrariety) 14
V. be opposite, subtend
Adj. opposite, reverse, inverse, converse, antipodal, subcontrary, fronting, facing, diametrically opposite, northern, septentrional, boreal, arctic, southern, austral, antarctic
Adv. over, over the way, over against, against, face to face, vis-a- vis, as poles asunder
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