Polar Regions
Americanplural noun
Example Sentences
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As Rod Downie, chief adviser for the WWF on Polar Regions, put it: "Freya posed a danger to the public - and the public posed a danger to Freya."
From BBC • Aug. 19, 2022
Winter passed away, with its darkness and its frost, and, happily, with its sorrows; and summer—bright, glowing summer—came at last, to gladden the heart of man and beast in the Polar Regions.
From The World of Ice by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
His companions heard these energetic words, and they did them good; but it was a terrible situation for these four men, alone, under the 80th degree of latitude, in the midst of the Polar Regions!
From The English at the North Pole Part I of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras by Verne, Jules
Of these it remains to be seen how many have come direct by way of Northern Europe or from the Polar Regions by way of Asia.
From The History of the European Fauna by Scharff, Robert Francis
Though the best-known portions of the Polar Regions are more nearly connected with North America than with Europe or Asia, we propose to leave them to be fully described in another work.
From The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by Kingston, William Henry Giles
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