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
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
Reptiles and amphibia are altogether unknown in the Polar Regions, but a large number of fish, chiefly marine, have taken their origin there.
From The History of the European Fauna by Scharff, Robert Francis
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 Parry, William Edward, Sir
It would lead me too far to refer to the invertebrate fauna of the Polar Regions, but a few remarks on the Arctic plants may not be out of place.
From The History of the European Fauna by Scharff, Robert Francis
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