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
There is a railway running as far north as the 67th parallel of latitude, about fifty miles beyond the polar circle into Lapland, to the famous mines of Malmberget, with a branch to Trondhjem, Norway.
From Norwegian Life by Clough, Ethlyn T.
About eight o'clock on the morning of the 16th of March the Nautilus, following the fifty-fifth meridian, cut the Antarctic polar circle.
From Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea 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)
If near the equator an instrument gives the latitude of the polar circle, it is a proof that it is not working rightly.
From The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Samuel by Blaikie, William Garden
