north-polar

Updated: May 25, 2025

Looking at our map, which shows the north-polar snow below, so that the south pole is out of the view at the top of the map, the central feature is the large spot Ascraeeus Lucus, from which ten canals diverge centrally, and four from the sides, forming wide double canals, fourteen in all.

Alfred Russel Wallace - Is Mars habitable? A critical examination of Professor Percival Lowell's book "Mars and its canals," with an alternative explanation

Thus it is that the same species are now found on the summits of the mountains of temperate Europe and America, and in the barren north-polar regions. But there is another set of facts, which help us on another step towards the case of the Javanese mountain flora.

Alfred Russel Wallace - The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1