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
In the North the extremity of the new axis will be situated between Greenland and Grinnelland, exactly on that part of Baffin’s Sea where it cuts the Arctic polar circle.
From Topsy-Turvy by Verne, Jules
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
The object of Columbus in making these long voyages to the equator and into the polar circle was, as he tells us, to gather observations upon climate.
From The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest by Fiske, John
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
