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
We cannot delay in these waters, and, after all, the one thing of real importance to us is to get out of the polar circle before the winter makes it impassable.”
From An Antarctic Mystery by Frances Cashel Hoey
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 William Morris
When the French government sent Maupertuis within the polar circle, to ascertain the exact figure of the earth, it was George Graham, Clock-maker of Fleet Street, who supplied the requisite instruments.
From Captains of Industry or, Men of Business Who Did Something Besides Making Money by James Parton
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 Henry Hart Milman
