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

The climate is not so bad as might be expected, seeing that the island touches the polar circle, the mean temperature at Reykjavik being 39 degrees.

From The Story of the Volsungs, (Volsunga Saga) With Excerpts from the Poetic Edda by Morris, William

The polar circle was soon passed, and the course shaped for Cape Horn.

From Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Verne, Jules

The memory of these Arctic fleets that seemed to descend from the polar circle left deep impression of terror on the Imperial city.

From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 by Milman, Henry Hart

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