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 polar circle was soon passed, and the course shaped for Cape Horn.
From Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Verne, Jules
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
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.
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
