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 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 Milman, Henry Hart
We had good horses, and leaving Avasaxa and the polar circle behind us, we sped down the solid bed of the Torneå to Niemis.
From Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland by Taylor, Bayard
The extraordinary thing about the paintings is, of course, their revelation of the colors of the frozen world of the polar circle.
From McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 4, August 1908 by Various
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 Parton, James
