Polar Regions
Americanplural noun
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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
The Former Climate of the Polar Regions," he says: "The character of the coasts in the Arctic regions is especially favourable to geological investigations.
From Island Life Or the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras by Wallace, Alfred Russel
In these frail canoes the natives of the Polar Regions pursue seals and whales, and even venture to attack the walrus in his native element.
From Man on the Ocean A Book about Boats and Ships by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
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
An admission is thus obtained from these two independent authorities that the climate during the Glacial period must have been vastly less severe in the Polar Regions than is generally conceded.
From The History of the European Fauna by Scharff, Robert Francis
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