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

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.

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 Clough, Ethlyn T.

Before us was the Hestmand, or Horseman, who bridles his rocky steed with the polar circle.

From Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland by Taylor, Bayard

And the "Albatross" emerged from the polar circle on the hundred and seventy-fifth meridian.

From Robur the Conqueror by Verne, Jules