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 had good horses, and leaving Avasaxa and the polar circle behind us, we sped down the solid bed of the Torneå to Niemis.
From Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland by Taylor, Bayard
The diagram shows that the maximum temperature of no place upon the Earth’s surface approaches the boiling-point of water, and that it is only within the polar circle that the mean temperature is below freezing-point.
From Are the Planets Inhabited? by Maunder, E. Walter (Edward Walter)
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
