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 extraordinary thing about the paintings is, of course, their revelation of the colors of the frozen world of the polar circle.
From McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 4, August 1908 by Various
Bailly argued that the bishop could not mean what these words seemed to imply, as the logical conclusion would be to wait till Canada was cleared right up to the polar circle.
From The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton by Wood, William Charles Henry
The climate is not so bad as might be expected, seeing that the island touches the polar circle, the mean temperature at Reykjavik being 39 degrees.
From The Story of the Volsungs, (Volsunga Saga) With Excerpts from the Poetic Edda by Morris, William
The polar circle was soon passed, and the course shaped for Cape Horn.
From Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Verne, Jules
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
