After his death the scale was reversed to its modern day use of 0 as the freezing point and 100 as the boiling point. The United States uses the Fahrenheit scale created by Gabrial Fahrenheit where 32 degrees is freezing and 212 degrees is boiling.he contraction of you are is you're. An abbreviation is a shortened form often followed by a period. A contraction follows a spoken form of a word pair by omitting one or m â¦ ore letters (e.g. you've, he's, won't). + 14 others found this useful. Anthony Robinson.
Arctic Circle definition. Imaginary circle around the Earth about three-quarters of the way from the equator to the North Pole. North of this line is the âLand of the Midnight Sun,â where the sun never sets on the summer solstice. Note: The Arctic Circle corresponds to the Antarctic Circle in the Southern Hemisphere.
It is the first ever legal tender commemorative coin issued by the British Antarctic Territory, making it the worldâs first Antarctic coin. The British Antarctic Territory is situated in Antarctica and lies south of latitude 60Â°S and between longitudes 20Â° and 80Â°W.The Territory comprises the Antarctic Peninsula with all adjacent islands, the South Orkney and South Shetland Islands and the Weddell Sea, as well as the landmass extending to the South Pole.he granddaughter of an early polar explorer has attended a ceremony to mark the launch of the first Antarctic coin. The coin has been created by the Pobjoy Mint in Kingswood, Surrey, to commemorate the centenary of the Granting of Letters Patent in 1908 when the UK first claimed the British Antarctic Territory.