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 they go to each other's tupics or igloos to make calls, instead of taking their knitting, the belles of the polar circle take their chewing.
From Schwatka's Search by Gilder, William H. (William Henry)
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
The object of Columbus in making these long voyages to the equator and into the polar circle was, as he tells us, to gather observations upon climate.
From The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest by Fiske, John
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
