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

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

I have before remarked that all the water which we made use of while within the polar circle was procured from snow either naturally or artificially dissolved.

From Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 1 by Parry, William Edward, Sir

The extraordinary thing about the paintings is, of course, their revelation of the colors of the frozen world of the polar circle.

From McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 4, August 1908 by Various

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.