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The world's largest ocean current which circles the globe and feeds cold water into the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans.
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circumpolar star
A reference to a star, asterism, or constellation that is close enough to the celestial pole that, depending on the latitude at which a person is observing, it never appears to set.
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circumpolar stars
Those stars that are of such a declination which in a particular latitude they never set.
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Astronomy and related astronomical terms
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