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

But, beyond the polar circle, above the austral icebergs, it is quite another thing, and, if the author’s work be not one of pure imagination, I am—well, of any other nationality than my own.

From An Antarctic Mystery by Hoey, Frances Cashel

It is well known that, at this period, a flight of philosophers were upon their return from the polar circle, where they had been making observations, for which nobody has hitherto been the wiser.

From Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume by

They could also plead the geographical situation of their country, which develops itself below the polar circle from the Behring Sea to Hudson’s Bay.

From Topsy-Turvy by Verne, Jules

It is absorbed at the polar circle; hence south-west winds and rain; south-west sometimes cold.

From The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation by Darwin, Erasmus