Antarctic Circle On World Map

This is a file from the wikimedia commons. We want to redefine the experience of discovering the world through the maps. The antarctic circle is between the southern temperate zone and the antarctic.

The antarctic (and arctic) circle is the latitude where you would get 24hours of sunlight on the summer solstice and also 24 hours without sunlight on the winter solstice. Information from its description page there is. It is the parallel of latitude at 66° 33′ 39″ south of the equator, crossing mostly the southern ocean.

Mercator's large world map of 1569 also shows an immense southern continent stretching along the whole of the base of the map as well as an inset of the antarctic.

The first world map by mercator. Antarctica is surrounded by the southern ocean, and most of the continent is below the antarctic circle. Because the earth’s axis is inclined about 23.5° from the vertical, this parallel marks the northern limit of the area within which, for one day or more each year, at the summer and winter solstices, the sun does not set (december 21 or 22) or rise (june 21 or 22). Information from its description page there is.