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 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

The climate is not so bad as might be expected, seeing that the island touches the polar circle, the mean temperature at Reykjavik being 39 degrees.

From The Story of the Volsungs, (Volsunga Saga) With Excerpts from the Poetic Edda by Morris, William

The diagram shows that the maximum temperature of no place upon the Earth’s surface approaches the boiling-point of water, and that it is only within the polar circle that the mean temperature is below freezing-point.

From Are the Planets Inhabited? by Maunder, E. Walter (Edward Walter)

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.