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
The polar circle was soon passed, and the course shaped for Cape Horn.
From Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Verne, Jules
It is absorbed at the polar circle; hence south-west winds and rain; south-west sometimes cold.
From The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation by Darwin, Erasmus
The diagram shows that the maximum temperature of no place upon the Earth’s surface approaches the boiling-point of water, and that it is only within the polar circle that the mean temperature is below freezing-point.
From Are the Planets Inhabited? by Maunder, E. Walter (Edward Walter)
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
