One instinctively desires to reach a spot whence to overlook this broad area peopled by more than eight hundred thousand souls.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
A day of six months and a night of six months is often ascribed to the Polar regions as a whole, but this is only true of a very small area about the Pole.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
A few miles northward, as we saw, was a promising area for a camp.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook