Arctic Circle (disambiguation)
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Arctic Circle is one of the five major circles of latitude that mark maps of the Earth.
It may also refer to:
- Arctic Circle Restaurants, a chain of burger and shake restaurants based in Midvale, Utah, USA
- Arctic Circle Air, an American airline based in Fairbanks, Alaska, USA
- Arctic Circle Raceway, the biggest race track in Norway
- Arctic circle theorem in mathematics
- Arctic Circle (organization), an international non-profit organization related to Arctic issues based in Reykjavík, Iceland
- Arctic Circle Trail, a trekking tour in West Greenland
- The Arctic Circle, the first track off of the 2006 album He Poos Clouds by Owen Pallett
- Arctic Circle (TV series), a Finnish-German television series
In the astronomy of the ancient Greeks, the "Arctic Circle" was an observer-dependent circle on the celestial sphere, centred on the northern celestial pole and tangential to the horizon, within which all the northern circumpolar stars lie.
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