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Polar Regions

American  

plural noun

  1. the regions within the Arctic and Antarctic circles.


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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 Robert Francis Scharff

His companions heard these energetic words, and they did them good; but it was a terrible situation for these four men, alone, under the 80th degree of latitude, in the midst of the Polar Regions!

From The English at the North Pole Part I of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras by Jules Verne

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

The officers who remained on board the Hecla during the summer described the weather as the most beautiful, and the climate altogether the most agreeable, they had ever experienced in 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

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