antarctic circle in English

noun
1
the parallel of latitude 66° 33ʹ south of the equator. It marks the southernmost point at which the sun is visible on the southern winter solstice and the northernmost point at which the midnight sun can be seen on the southern summer solstice.

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1. Captain James Cook crossed the Antarctic Circle three times in …

2. A continent lying chiefly within the Antarctic Circle and asymmetrically centered on the South Pole

3. Antarctic Circle The Antarctic (or Antarctica) Circle is one of the five major circles or parallels of latitude that mark maps of the Earth

4. Ant·arc·ti·ca (ănt-ärk′tĭ-kə, -är′tĭ-) A continent lying chiefly within the Antarctic Circle and asymmetrically centered on the South Pole

5. The second voyage, sailing on the HMS Resolution, left England in 1772 and again Circumnavigated the southern hemisphere, poking into the Antarctic Circle and producing charts that were still used well into the 20th century.