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The Northern Hemisphere is the half of Earth that is north of the equator . For other planets in the Solar System , north is defined as being in the same celestial hemisphere relative to the invariable plane of the solar system as Earth ' s North pole . Due to the Earth ' s axial tilt , winter in the Northern Hemisphere lasts from the December solstice ( typically December 21 UTC ) to the March ___MASK78___ ( typically March 20 UTC ), while summer lasts from the June solstice ( typically June 21 UTC ) through to the September ___MASK78___ ( typically September 23 UTC ). The dates vary each year due to the difference between the calendar year and the astronomical year . Anthony Horowitz , OBE ( born 5 April 1955 ) is an ___MASK58___ novelist and screenwriter specialising in mystery and suspense . His work for young adult readers includes " The Diamond Brothers " series , the " Alex Rider " series , and " The Power of Five " series ( a . k . a . " The Gatekeepers "). His work for adults includes the novel and play " Mindgame " ( 2001 ), and two Sherlock Holmes novels " The House of Silk " ( 2011 ) and " Moriarty " ( 2014 ). He is the most recent author chosen to write a James Bond novel by the Ian Fleming estate , titled " Trigger Mortis " ( 2015 ). A continent is one of several very large landmasses on Earth . Generally identified by convention rather than any strict criteria , up to seven regions are commonly regarded as continents . Ordered from largest in size to smallest , they are : Asia , Africa , ___MASK31___ , South America , Antarctica , Europe , and Australia . In geology , areas of continental crust include regions covered with water . Point Blanc is the second book in the Alex ___MASK97___ series , written by British author Anthony Horowitz . The book was released in the United Kingdom on September 3 , 2001 and in ___MASK31___ on April 15 , 2002 , under the alternate title Point Blank . In 2003 , the novel was listed on the BBC ' s survey The Big Read . In 2007 , it was adapted into a graphic novel , written by Antony Johnston , and illustrated by Kanako Damerum and Yuzuru Takasaki . The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth ' s oceanic divisions . It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean ( or , depending on ___MASK40___ , to Antarctica ) in the south and is bounded by Asia and Australia in the west and the Americas in the east . ___MASK75___ Ocean is the second largest of the world ' s oceans with a total area of about . It covers approximately 20 percent of the Earth ' s surface and about 29 percent of its water surface area . It separates the " Old World " from the " New World ". The Arctic Ocean is the smallest and shallowest of the world ' s five major oceans . The International Hydrographic Organization ( IHO ) recognizes it as an ocean , although some oceanographers call it the Arctic Mediterranean Sea or simply the Arctic Sea , classifying it a mediterranean sea or an estuary of ___MASK75___ Ocean . Alternatively , the Arctic Ocean can be seen as the northernmost part of the all - encompassing World Ocean . Ian Lancaster Fleming ( 28 May 1908  12 August 1964 ) was an ___MASK58___ author , journalist and naval intelligence officer who is best known for his James Bond series of spy novels . Fleming came from a wealthy family connected to the merchant bank Robert Fleming & Co ., and his father was the Member of Parliament for Henley from 1910 until his death on the Western Front in 1917 . Educated at Eton , Sandhurst and , briefly , the universities of Munich and Geneva , Fleming moved through several jobs before he started writing . The Diamond Brothers is a series of humorous children ' s detective books by Anthony Horowitz , the first of which was published in 1986 . The books tell the adventures of the world ' s worst private detective , Tim Diamond , and his younger brother , Nick Diamond , who is considerably more intelligent . These books are aimed at young teenagers , slightly younger than those aimed at with the more recent " Alex ___MASK97___ " series . However , both series star a teenage boy and include guns , fights and world - wide criminals . The most notable difference is that " The Diamond Brothers " series contains much more humour , with many puns , pop culture references and absurd situations . Although the books started in the late 1980s and have continued into the millennium , Nick and Tim remain roughly the same age ( 14 and 28 respectively ), while London changes with the times ( the newer books feature Oyster Cards and computers for example , whereas the older books feature parts of London that have long since changed , such as smoking in offices ). The entire series was re - issued in 2007 with new covers . The Americas , also collectively called America , encompass the totality of the continents of ___MASK31___ and South America . Together they make up most of Earth ' s western hemisphere and comprise the " New World ". The Arctic ( or ) is a polar region located at the northernmost part of Earth . The Arctic consists of the Arctic Ocean , adjacent seas , and parts of Alaska ( United States ), Canada , Finland , Greenland ( Denmark ), Iceland , Norway , ___MASK88___ , and Sweden . Land within the Arctic region has seasonally varying snow and ice cover , with predominantly treeless permafrost - containing tundra . Arctic seas contain seasonal sea ice in many places . ___MASK31___ is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere . It can also be considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas . It is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean , to the east by the Atlantic Ocean , to the west and south by the Pacific Ocean , and to the southeast by South America and the Caribbean Sea . Alex ___MASK97___ is a series of spy novels by British author Anthony Horowitz about a 14  15 - year - old spy named Alex ___MASK97___ . The series is aimed primarily at young adults . The series comprises ten novels , as well as five graphic novels , three short stories and a supplementary book . The first novel , " Stormbreaker ", was released in the United Kingdom in 2000 and was adapted into a motion picture in 2006 starring Alex Pettyfer . A was released in 2006 , based on the film which received negative reviews . The novels are published by ___MASK36___ in the United Kingdom . They were first published by Puffin in the United States , but have been published more recently by ___MASK33___ , also an imprint of Penguin Books . The audio books are read by Simon Prebble . The tenth novel , " Russian Roulette ", was released in September 2013 . Horowitz has had great success with the series . South America is a continent located in the western hemisphere , mostly in the southern hemisphere , with a relatively small portion in the northern hemisphere . It is also considered a subcontinent of the Americas , which is the model used in nations that speak Romance languages . The reference to South America instead of other regions ( like Latin America or the Southern Cone ) has increased in the last decades due to changing geopolitical dynamics ( in particular , the rise of ___MASK56___ ). The Power of Five ( also known as The Gatekeepers in the US ) is a series of five fantasy and suspense novels , written by ___MASK58___ author Anthony Horowitz and published between 2005 and 2012 . It is an updated re - imagining of Horowitz ' s " Pentagram " series , which the author had left unfinished in the 1980s . The series is published in the United Kingdom by ___MASK36___ Ltd and in the United States by Scholastic Press . The novels deal heavily in the occult and examples of things such as human sacrifice and blood rituals are major plot elements , such as in the first book , where the protagonist , Matthew Freeman , is hunted by a Cult who want to conduct a blood sacrifice on him to blast open a portal using a combination of nuclear physics and black magic , to unlock another dimension which is holding a group of ancient evil demons captive . The Caribbean Sea is a sea of ___MASK75___ Ocean in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere . It is bounded by Mexico and Central America to the west and south west , to the north by the Greater Antilles starting with Cuba , to the east by the Lesser Antilles , and to the south by the north coast of South America .