Antarctic Circle

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It occurs in winter north of the Arctic Circle and south of the Antarctic Circle, which are circumpolar lines at latitude 66.6 degrees North and South respectively.

From National Geographic • Feb. 1, 2024

Earth rotates on a titled axis which means there are periods of the year where the Arctic Circle and the Antarctic Circle are either completely exposed or obscured from the sun.

From BBC • Jan. 8, 2024

Though we were south of the Antarctic Circle, it was mid-January, late in the austral summer, and we were lucky to have found this several-miles-wide expanse of shore-fastened ice.

From Washington Post • Mar. 3, 2022

Now it is the Arctic Circle that has the 24-hour night and the Antarctic Circle that has the midnight Sun.

From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016

Well, there goes the first thousand dollars’ bounty; probably skipped all the way to the Antarctic Circle.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick