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Working through that backlog would take weeks even after the waterway is safe to pass, said Saleem Khan, chief data and analytics officer at maritime-intelligence firm Pole Star Global.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026
The name Polaris is taken from the Pole Star, used for navigation by slaves escaping northwards in the US in the 19th Century.
From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2019
This week the Finsler comet is almost opposite the Pole Star in its path across the northern sky toward the Big Dipper.
From Time Magazine Archive
She explained that Pole Star was a trading vessel but also a warship, accustomed to fighting Siberian and Inuit pirates as it made the icy Pole Run to Nippon.
From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi
Somewhere behind them, Pole Star pursued, but Nailer couldn’t see it and had no idea where it was.
From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi
His wife and daughter’s troubled relationship is the novel’s pole star: “Flashlight” is less about the absent Serk than the omnipresent, annoying Anne.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2025
To find it, Massey suggests first searching for the pole star, which is always in the same place in the sky.
From BBC ● Jan. 31, 2023
She was, he said, so “unvarying in her pole star radiance that we have perhaps been lulled into thinking that she might be in some way eternal.”
From Washington Post ● Sep. 12, 2022
“Instead of leading us at the front of the pack, he will now lead us as our guiding pole star as we press forward in the realization of his dream.”
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 28, 2022
Having found the north point as near as you can, look upward about forty degrees from the horizon, and you will see the lone twinkler called the north or pole star.
From Astronomy with an Opera-glass A Popular Introduction to the Study of the Starry Heavens with the Simplest of Optical Instruments by Serviss, Garrett Putman
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