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circumpolar

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circumpolar [¦sər·kəm′pō·lər]
(astronomy)
Revolving about the elevated pole without setting.
(geography)
Located around one of the polar regions of earth.


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Two months earlier we should have had perpetual daylight in these latitudes; but already we had had three or four hours of night, and by and by there would be six months of darkness in these circumpolar regions.
 
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