How to Use the Arctic Circle in a Sentence

the Arctic Circle

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  • Traces of the fu-gos were seen from the Aleutians to Bethel to above the Arctic Circle.
    David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Tromsø is the third largest city north of the Arctic Circle.
    Sydney Borchers, Fox News, 8 Oct. 2023
  • This is the Brooks Range, roughly 50 miles north of the Arctic Circle.
    Timothy Puko and Lillian Cunningham, Anchorage Daily News, 19 July 2023
  • Nikita Zimov walked through the sticky brown muck of Siberia, just above the Arctic Circle.
    Ruby Mellen, Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2024
  • That’s why the sun never sets at all in the Arctic Circle during the time around the summer solstice.
    Forrest Brown, CNN, 20 Mar. 2023
  • In this small town on the Arctic Circle, a tense debate is playing out about how much is enough.
    Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Feb. 2024
  • The weather was uncommonly hot and still for a place just below the Arctic Circle that is iced over for eight months of the year.
    David Treuer, Travel + Leisure, 25 Feb. 2023
  • In the eastern hemisphere, some red knots migrate more than 9,000 miles, from the tip of South America to the Arctic Circle.
    Benji Jones, Vox, 28 June 2024
  • And that really is true of living above the Arctic Circle.
    Megan McCluskey, TIME, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Putin has long made a habit of not mentioning Navalny, who died last month in a Russian prison north of the Arctic Circle.
    Nathan Hodge, CNN, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Her childhood was spent in Kotzebue, roughly 30 miles north of the Arctic Circle.
    Emily Schwing, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Aug. 2023
  • Found by locals in the summer of 2022 in the Verkhoyansk district of the Arctic Circle, the bison was preserved in the permafrost.
    Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 9 Apr. 2023
  • Now comes a new title, a new creator, and a very different setting, 150 miles north of the Arctic Circle.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 2 Jan. 2024
  • By June, there will be a midnight sun in Iceland and other locations on or in the Arctic Circle.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
  • This close to the Arctic Circle, the Coppermine River doesn’t get much warmer than 40°, even in midsummer.
    Tom Hinman, Outdoor Life, 8 May 2024
  • Name three Americans so odious that they should be set adrift in a dinghy in the Arctic Circle with enough food and water to only last 24 hours.
    Daniel Kohn, SPIN, 17 July 2024
  • More temperate zones farther north get about 15 hours of sunlight on the summer solstice, and the sun doesn't set at all that day over the Arctic Circle.
    Meredith G. White, The Arizona Republic, 17 Apr. 2024
  • Name three Americans so odious that they should be set adrift in a dinghy in the Arctic Circle with enough food and water to only last them 24 hours.
    Daniel Kohn, SPIN, 15 May 2024
  • Today is the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, where those of us below the Arctic Circle see an average of 15 hours of sunlight.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 20 June 2024
  • The Willow project would be constructed on the nation’s largest swath of undeveloped land, about 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle.
    Lisa Friedman, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2023
  • The twins accompanied their father on a sail across the Arctic Circle during their trip to Norway last June.
    Peter Mikelbank, Peoplemag, 20 Dec. 2023
  • So, if snakes can be found almost everywhere else the world—from Australia to the Arctic Circle—what makes Ireland so special?
    Sarah Fecht, Popular Science, 14 Mar. 2024
  • He was born somewhere in modern-day Sweden or Norway, possibly even as far north as the Arctic Circle.
    Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 15 Feb. 2024
  • After a desperate three weeks, Navalny was found at an isolated prison colony in the Arctic Circle.
    Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2024
  • The couple, who have been married for 27 years, shared several updates from their adventurous trip to the island nation on the edge of the Arctic Circle.
    Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Zimov collects data on the depth of the permafrost to measure how much is disappearing in villages above the Arctic Circle.
    Ruby Mellen, Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Above the Arctic Circle, the moon rises earlier on successive nights.
    Geoff Chester, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023
  • After filming in some of the most incredible places in the world, including the Arctic Circle and the Maldives, is Levy any less reluctant to travel now?
    Kathleen Rellihan, Travel + Leisure, 24 Feb. 2023
  • This week, people in 17 northern states should be able to see the Northern Lights, which are typically only visible in and near the Arctic Circle.
    Ashley Stimpson, Popular Mechanics, 12 July 2023
  • Much of this toilet paper comes from trees logged in Canada’s species-rich boreal forests, the vast landscape of plants and wetlands growing below the Arctic Circle.
    Michael J. Coren, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Apr. 2023

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