Harek lived on the isle of Tjotta, a little to the south of the Polar Circle.
Indeed, as regards the former, every vegetable product found from the Equator to the Polar Circle exist in the country.
We had good horses, and leaving Avasaxa and the polar circle behind us, we sped down the solid bed of the Torneå to Niemis.
A dial attached to the axis of the earth below the meridian circle marks the hours, which are engraved on the Arctic polar circle.
To the northward is a great chain of mountains, that stretches as far as the Frozen Sea, beyond the polar circle.
The elk is only found on this, and the rein-deer on the other, side of the polar circle in Europe and in Asia.
The polar circle is parallel, running slanting round the earth.
Before us was the Hestmand, or Horseman, who bridles his rocky steed with the polar circle.
The extraordinary thing about the paintings is, of course, their revelation of the colors of the frozen world of the polar circle.
If near the equator an instrument gives the latitude of the polar circle, it is a proof that it is not working rightly.
