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
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)
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
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
We have described here birds of the Polar Regions and of the Tropics; birds of passage, birds of prey; the song of the nightingale and of the robin, &c.
From The Cockatoo's Story by Cupples, George, Mrs.
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