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
We cannot delay in these waters, and, after all, the one thing of real importance to us is to get out of the polar circle before the winter makes it impassable.”
From An Antarctic Mystery by Hoey, Frances Cashel
The polar circle was soon passed, and the course shaped for Cape Horn.
From Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Verne, Jules
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
About eight o'clock on the morning of the 16th of March the Nautilus, following the fifty-fifth meridian, cut the Antarctic polar circle.
From Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Verne, Jules
