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

From north to south, from the polar circle to the Straits of Magellan, we see in succession:

From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 by Humboldt, Alexander von

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

It is absorbed at the polar circle; hence south-west winds and rain; south-west sometimes cold.

From The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation by Darwin, Erasmus

But, beyond the polar circle, above the austral icebergs, it is quite another thing, and, if the author’s work be not one of pure imagination, I am—well, of any other nationality than my own.

From An Antarctic Mystery by Hoey, Frances Cashel