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
He himself came to dine with us, and to be present at the ceremony of crossing the polar circle.
From Letters from High Latitudes by Lord Dufferin
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 Ethlyn T. Clough
The polar circle was soon passed, and the course shaped for Cape Horn.
From Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne
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 W. Hastings Macaulay
