NOUN
- a line of latitude near but to the south of the north pole; it marks the northernmost point at which the sun is visible on the northern winter solstice and the southernmost point at which the midnight sun can be seen on the northern summer solstice
How To Use Arctic Circle In A Sentence
- Most of Norilsk's m ajor mines are north of the Arctic Circle. Commodities Trader Trafigura Buys Norilsk Stake
- Chukotka straddles the Arctic Circle and its nine - month winter can witness temperatures as low as - 60 C.
- No doubt he will make a few new friends starting next summer on his 30-month circumnavigation of the Arctic Circle.
- It eastern Atlantic Ocean, the Pacific West foreshore , in the northwest neighborhood Alaska, south United States, up to the Arctic Ocean north of the Arctic Circle.
- Our little dogsledding outing began at the river village of Bettles, north of the Alaska Range, north of the Yukon, north of the Arctic Circle, north of almost everything on the planet. Richard Bangs: So, You Think That's Cold?
- Stilton cheese, and coffee in transparent little china cups, and sugar in a silver bowl, and then cigars, -- everything of the best and purest; and as we passed from one thing to another, I became at length persuaded that the Arctic Circle was a myth, that my cruise among the icebergs was The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867.
- The third and most challenging joint air defense undertaking of the 1950s was the construction of a transcontinental line along the 70th parallel about 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle.
- Leo Houlding, for example, parachuted into Baffin Island in the Arctic Circle, then spent weeks climbing an iced-up rock tower called Mount Asgard, only to leap from the top in a wingsuit. A Nature for the Great Outdoors
- It was that spirit that opened a communication across the broad continent of America; that penetrated to the frostbound regions of the Arctic circle; and that established Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory Volume I.
- For Pullman fans, this kind of plucky self-confidence must sound familiar: it's Lyra Belaqua, the novel's crafty protagonist, who travels from Oxford to the Arctic Circle -- aided by armored bears, flying witches and a truth-telling compass that only she can read -- to rescue her kidnapped best friend. The Arctic Adventurer
