Tropic of Capricornin a sentence
- We had crossed the Tropic of Capricorn, and the Strait of Magellan opened less than 700 miles to the south.† (source)
- Near eleven o'clock in the morning, we cut the Tropic of Capricorn on the 37th meridian, passing well out from Cape Frio.† (source)
- After touching the Tropic of Capricorn at longitude 135°, it headed west–northwest, going back up the whole intertropical zone.† (source)
- On July 20 we cut the Tropic of Capricorn at longitude 105°, and by the 27th of the same month, we had cleared the equator on the 110th meridian.† (source)
- …circumpolar icecaps, arctic and antarctic: its climatic and commercial significance: its preponderance of 3 to 1 over the dry land of the globe: its indisputable hegemony extending in square leagues over all the region below the subequatorial tropic of Capricorn: the multisecular stability of its primeval basin: its luteofulvous bed: its capacity to dissolve and hold in solution all soluble substances including millions of tons of the most precious metals: its slow erosions of…† (source)