Arctic Circle

Related to Arctic Circle: Antarctic Circle, North Pole

Arctic Circle

The parallel of latitude approximately 66°34′ north, the southern boundary of the North Frigid Zone, marking the approximate limit north of which the sun remains above the horizon all day on the summer solstice.

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Arctic Circle

(Physical Geography) the imaginary circle round the earth, parallel to the equator, at latitude 66° 32′ N; it marks the northernmost point at which the sun appears above the level of the horizon on the winter solstice

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Arc′tic Cir′cle

an imaginary line drawn parallel to the equator, at 23°28~ S of the North Pole: between the North Frigid Zone and the North Temperate Zone.

Arc·tic Circle

(ärk′tĭk)

The parallel of latitude approximately 66°33′ north. It forms the boundary between the North Temperate Zone and the North Frigid Zone.

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Arctic Circle

A line of latitude, approximately 66° north of the equator, north of which the Sun does not rise at least one day in winter or set at least one day in summer; the northern hemisphere’s equivalent of the Antarctic Circle.

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Noun

Arctic Circle - 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

Translations

الدَائِرَة القُطْبِيَّة الشِّمالِيَّة

severní polární kruh

den nordlige polarkreds

nördlicher Polarkreis

Αρκτικός Κύκλος

círculo polar ártico

pohjoinen napapiiri

cercle polaire

Arktički krug

Északi-sarkkör

Circolo Polare Artico

北極圏

북극권

Северный полярный круг

norra polcirkeln

เส้นอาร์กติกเซอร์เคิล

Kuzey Buzul Kuşağı

Vòng Bắc Cực

北极圈

Arctic Circle

n
the Arctic Circle → le cercle arctique, le cercle polaire arctique

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Arctic Circle

n the Arctic Circle → il Circolo polare artico

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Arctic Circle

→ الدَائِرَة القُطْبِيَّة الشِّمالِيَّة severní polární kruh den nordlige polarkreds nördlicher Polarkreis Αρκτικός Κύκλος círculo polar ártico pohjoinen napapiiri cercle polaire Arktički krug Circolo Polare Artico 北極圏 북극권 noordpoolcirkel polarsirkel koło podbiegunowe Círculo Ártico Северный полярный круг norra polcirkeln เส้นอาร์กติกเซอร์เคิล Kuzey Buzul Kuşağı Vòng Bắc Cực 北极圈

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Kadlu traded the rich, creamy, twisted narwhal horn and musk-ox teeth (these are just as valuable as pearls) to the Southern Inuit, and they, in turn, traded with the whalers and the missionary-posts of Exeter and Cumberland Sounds; and so the chain went on, till a kettle picked up by a ship's cook in the Bhendy Bazaar might end its days over a blubber-lamp somewhere on the cool side of the Arctic Circle.

Amoraq jumped from the bench where she sat, and began to sweep things into the girl's lap--stone lamps, iron skin-scrapers, tin kettles, deer- skins embroidered with musk-ox teeth, and real canvas-needles such as sailors use--the finest dowry that has ever been given on the far edge of the Arctic Circle, and the girl from the North bowed her head down to the very floor.

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Thanks to powerful influence, he had just been appointed a member of the official expedition on board the Requin, which was to be sent to the Arctic Circle in search of the survivors of the D'Artoi's expedition, of whom nothing had been heard for three years.

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While the fiery and magnificent Spaniard, inflamed with the mania for gold, has extended his discoveries and conquests over those brilliant countries scorched by the ardent sun of the tropics, the adroit and buoyant Frenchman, and the cool and calculating Briton, have pursued the less splendid, but no less lucrative, traffic in furs amidst the hyperborean regions of the Canadas, until they have advanced even within the Arctic Circle.

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I think it would be, if we knew how to look at and feel it," said Polly, very quietly, as she pushed her chair out of the arctic circle of Miss Perkins, into the temperate one of friendly Emma.

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In fact, they lay at the old Hudson Bay Company's post at Fort Yukon inside the Arctic Circle. Flour in Dawson was up to two dollars a pound, but no one would sell.

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Barnacle geese traditionally stopped off to fuel-up on food just south of the Arctic circle in Norway on their journey from the UK to nesting sites on Svalbard.

Climate change causing migrating birds to change flight path, study finds

The challenge is a 100km trek from the official home of Santa Claus into Finland's Arctic Circle.

Trek to the Arctic in aid of Accord

Summary: New Delhi (India), July 17 (ANI): 'The War', starring Hrithik Roshan and Tiger Shroff, has become the first film ever to be shot in the Arctic Circle.

'The War' is the first film to be shot in the Arctic circle!

A ceremony was held Sunday to officially open Norway's second largest bridge that has been built by a Chinese company and its partners some 220 km inside the Arctic Circle, reportedA xinhuanet.com

Norway's 2nd largest bridge Opens to Traffic

SWEDEN is fighting its most serious wildfires in decades - including blazes above the Arctic Circle. The fires have prompted the government to seek help from several other European nations.