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Arctic Circle
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círculo polar ártico
The parallel of latitude that runs 66° 33′ 39″ north of the Equator, which marks approximately the southernmost place in the Northern Hemisphere where the sun does not set on the summer solstice and does not rise on the winter solstice.
1603, Philemon Holland (translator), The Philosophie, commonlie called, the Morals written by the Learned Philosopher Plutarch of Chæronea, London, The Opinions of the Philosophers…
Then he tells us that the Bear, or Stars of the Arctick Circle, never disappear; as an Observation which agrees with no other.
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