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

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

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

There is a railway running as far north as the 67th parallel of latitude, about fifty miles beyond the polar circle into Lapland, to the famous mines of Malmberget, with a branch to Trondhjem, Norway.

From Norwegian Life by Clough, Ethlyn T.

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