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 memory of these Arctic fleets that seemed to descend from the polar circle left deep impression of terror on the Imperial city.

From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 by Milman, Henry Hart

And the "Albatross" emerged from the polar circle on the hundred and seventy-fifth meridian.

From Robur the Conqueror by Verne, Jules

Before us was the Hestmand, or Horseman, who bridles his rocky steed with the polar circle.

From Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland by Taylor, Bayard

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