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

Before us was the Hestmand, or Horseman, who bridles his rocky steed with the polar circle.

From Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland by Taylor, Bayard

I have before remarked that all the water which we made use of while within the polar circle was procured from snow either naturally or artificially dissolved.

From Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 1 by Parry, William Edward, Sir

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

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