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

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

Ptolemy supposes this to have been the Thule of Pytheas, Pliny places it within three degrees of the pole, Eratosthenes under the polar circle.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, By William Stevenson by Stevenson, William

The musk-ox had retreated to the polar circle.

From Ancient Man The Beginning of Civilizations by Van Loon, Hendrik Willem

From north to south, from the polar circle to the Straits of Magellan, we see in succession:

From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 by Humboldt, Alexander von