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
• Located 90 miles north of the Arctic Circle, Kiruna is best known for its large iron ore mine, one of the largest in the world.
  — David Nikel, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2024
• 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 common adder is one of only two venomous snakes in Germany and the only snake known to live north of the Arctic Circle.
  — Byphie Jacobs, science.org, 20 Sep. 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
• Now Northvolt faces a cash crunch, after a production ramp-up faltered at its main plant near the Arctic Circle.
  — Sydney Lake, Fortune Europe, 9 Oct. 2024
• 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
• North of the Arctic Circle experiences 24 hours of daylight since the sun remains fully above the horizon.
  — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 17 June 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
• Arctic foxes can be found in tundra habitat throughout the Arctic Circle.
  — Alexa Robles-Gil, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Oct. 2024
• At 78 degrees north latitude, which is about 12 degrees farther north than the lower boundary of the Arctic Circle, Svalbard is no stranger to polar night.
  — Cecilia Blomdahl, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024