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
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
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
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
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.
