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

Here the continent again turns at right angles, and continues northeast into the northern polar circle.

From Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas by Macaulay, W. Hastings

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

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

Then a second circular furrow appears, parallel to the first, and nearer to the north pole, so that we may compare it to the north polar circle.

From The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 by Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August