Antarctic Circle
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This was a main object during 1840, the expedition remaining at the Auckland Islands for this purpose; and it was not till the 1st of January, 1841, that it entered the antarctic circle.
From The Economist Volume 1, No. 3 by Wilson, James
In order to save her supply of coal for future use she was towed to the antarctic circle.
From Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania by Gilson, Jewett Castello
In Spitzbergen, 79 degrees north, vegetation ascends the mountain slopes to a height of 3,000 feet, but on every land within or near the antarctic circle the snow-line descends to the water's edge.
From Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 by Burroughs, Barkham
Daggett followed willingly, but not like a man who had escaped by the skin of his teeth, from wintering near the antarctic circle.
From The Sea Lions The Lost Sealers by Cooper, James Fenimore
The circles bounding these regions are called respectively the arctic and the antarctic circle, and the regions themselves the polar or frigid zones.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde by Various
