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The term circumpolar may refer to:
- circumpolar navigation: to travel the world "vertically" traversing both of the poles
- Circumpolar mythology
- Circumpolar religion
- the Antarctic Circumpolar Current
- Circumpolar star, stars that never rise or set from the perspective of a given latitude on Earth.
- Arctic Circle
- North Pole of Earth
- South Pole of Earth
- Circumpolar people a term used to describe culturally discrete groups such as the Sami people, Yupik, Chukchi, Inu, Dene, Inuit, Inuvialuit, Thule Culture, and other groups that occupy a traditional habitat above the Arctic Circle. Convergent behaviours and lifestyles cause these groups to be roughly grouped together in contrast to "southern" cultural groups.
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