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antarctic anticyclone—(Or antarctic high.) The glacial anticyclone that has been said to overlie the continent of Antarctica; analogous to the Greenland anticyclone. Until the International Geophysical Year there had been insufficient observational evidence to either support or contradict this theory.           Court, A., 1951: Compendium of Meteorology, 918–922.