polar circle

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“We basically achieved everything we set out to do,” the expedition’s leader, Markus Rex, told The Associated Press by satellite phone as it left the polar circle last week.

From Washington Times • Oct. 12, 2020

If near the equator an instrument gives the latitude of the polar circle, it is a proof that it is not working rightly.

From The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Samuel by Blaikie, William Garden

He himself came to dine with us, and to be present at the ceremony of crossing the polar circle.

From Letters from High Latitudes by Dufferin, Lord

The memory of these Arctic fleets that seemed to descend from the polar circle left deep impression of terror on the Imperial city.

From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 by Milman, Henry Hart

The attraction-spheres are near one side of the ovum, and are connected with its periphery by a cone of fibres forming a polar circle, p.c.; e.c., equatorial circle.

From Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions by Romanes, George John