: an imaginary line that goes around the Earth near the North Pole
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Chasing the Midnight Sun in Svalbard What’s a bigger bucket-list item than the Arctic Circle?—Dea Jusufi, Forbes.com, 9 May 2026 Navalny’s lawyers represented him in the lead-up to his death at a remote penal colony in the Arctic Circle.—Irwin Cotler, Time, 8 May 2026 Reports say Shivdasani is eyeing the Arctic Circle, Japan, and the Alps, but not many details have been released.—William Curtis, Travel + Leisure, 6 May 2026 For example, through studying the Denver Pollen Collection, researchers discovered that the North Slope of Alaska had a temperate to subtropical climate about 50 to 56 million years ago that allowed palm trees to grow north of the Arctic Circle.—Ingrid C. Romero, The Conversation, 5 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for the Arctic Circle