What is Antarctic Circle?
[[Image:World map with antarctic circle.svg|thumb|350px|A world map. The Antarctic Circle is shown as the red line.]] The '''Antarctic Circle''' is one of the five major [[circle of latitude|circles of latitude]] that mark maps of the [[Earth]]. It is the parallel of [[latitude]] at 66° 33′ 39″ south of the [[Equator]], crossing mostly the [[Southern Ocean]]. In the Antarctic Circle, all places have twenty-four hours of [[daylight]] on the [[Summer Solstice]] in December. In June on the [[Winter Solstice]] all places have twenty-four hours of [[wikt:night|night]]. There is a minimum of one whole day that the [[sun]] does not [[sunset|set]] and one whole day that the sun does not [[sunrise|rise]]. The area south of this circle is named the Antarctic, and the zone to the north is the [[temperate|Southern Temperate Zone]]. The [[continent]] of [[Antarctica]] is a land mass that is most of the area within the Antarctic Circle. The [[South Pole]] is in the center of the Antarctic Circle. There is no [[wikt:permanent|permanent]] population of persons south of the Antarctic Circle. There are research centers from some nations on Antarctica. Teams of [[scientist]]s live in the research centers for part of the year. In past centuries some [[whaling]] stations were set up on Antarctica and some of the whalers would live there for a year or more. At least three children have been born in Antarctica. It is one of the coldest places on earth.The lowest [[temperature]] ever recorded on earth was recorded in Antarctica (-129.3) ==Related pages== *[[Southern Hemisphere]] *[[Northern Hemisphere]] *[[Eastern Hemisphere]] *[[Western Hemisphere]] *[[Season]]s *[[Solstice]] and [[equinox]] *[[Equator]] *[[Tropic of Cancer]] *[[Tropic of Capricorn]] *[[Arctic Circle]] ==Other websites== *[http://www.antarctic-circle.org/ Antarctic Circle org] *[http://www.bugbog.com/maps/polar_regions/antarctic_circle_map.html Map] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071013181647/http://bugbog.com/maps/polar_regions/antarctic_ci