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 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

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

He himself came to dine with us, and to be present at the ceremony of crossing the polar circle.

From Letters from High Latitudes by Dufferin, Lord

When they go to each other's tupics or igloos to make calls, instead of taking their knitting, the belles of the polar circle take their chewing.

From Schwatka's Search by Gilder, William H. (William Henry)