February 04, 1993|Kirsten Lee Swartz, Times community correspondent. Long Beach officials recently decided to set up storefront police stations that will be staffed by volunteers and serve as drop-in centers for officers and residents.
The Arctic Circle is a region on Earth that is marked as one of the five major circles of latitude on maps of our planet.It is located between the Arctic to its north and the Northern Temperate Zone to its south. Its counterpart in the Southern Hemisphere is known as the Antarctic Circle.In addition to the Antarctic Circle, the other three major latitude lines are the Tropic of Cancer, the Tropic of Capricorn, and the Equator.The Arctic Circle is the farthest southern region that experiences polar day and polar night.ts counterpart in the Southern Hemisphere is known as the Antarctic Circle. In addition to the Antarctic Circle, the other three major latitude lines are the Tropic of Cancer, the Tropic of Capricorn, and the Equator.
The Arctic Circle is an imaginary line of latitude equal to about  66.5Â° N latitude.   (more precisely 66Â° 33' 44 N)    By definition it is the latitude above w â¦ hich a location can  experience at least 24 consecutive hours of night or 24 consecutive  hours of daylight on at least one day of the year.  It is drawn at 66Â° 33' 44 (66.5622Â°) north of the  Equator.  Areas north of this circle are called the Arctic. North of the  Arctic Circle there is at least one 24-hour sunlit day per year and  one sunless day per year.