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 Alfred Russel Wallace
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 William Henry Giles Kingston
One of the most remarkable of these was the frequent occurrence of hard, well-defined clouds, a feature we had hitherto considered as almost unknown in the winter sky of the Polar Regions.
From Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 2 by Sir William Edward Parry
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 R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
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