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
They could also plead the geographical situation of their country, which develops itself below the polar circle from the Behring Sea to Hudson’s Bay.
From Topsy-Turvy by Verne, Jules
When they go to each other's tupics or igloos to make calls, instead of taking their knitting, the belles of the polar circle take their chewing.
From Schwatka's Search by Gilder, William H. (William Henry)
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 Hoey, Frances Cashel
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)
