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

Here the continent again turns at right angles, and continues northeast into the northern polar circle.

From Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas by Macaulay, W. Hastings

Then a second circular furrow appears, parallel to the first, and nearer to the north pole, so that we may compare it to the north polar circle.

From The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 by Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August

However, the greatest part of this southern continent, if it actually exists, must lie within the polar circle, where the sea is so encumbered with ice, that the land is rendered inaccessible.

From Narrative of the Voyages Round the World, Performed by Captain James Cook : with an Account of His Life During the Previous and Intervening Periods by Kippis, Andrew

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.