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

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

From Robur the Conqueror by Verne, Jules

In 1839 the Englishman Balleny discovered the Sabrina Coast at the edge of the polar circle.

From Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Walter, F. P.

The extraordinary thing about the paintings is, of course, their revelation of the colors of the frozen world of the polar circle.

From McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 4, August 1908 by Various

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