transpolar
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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"Increasingly, people are interested in the transpolar route," said Pfirman, the Barnard professor, adding that tourists are intrigued about far-north vacations, too.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 20, 2015
It seems doubtful that even such sturdy characters as Shackleton and his crew could have made a transpolar crossing.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Offensively, Alaska was a strategic refueling point for transpolar B-36s.
From Time Magazine Archive
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A few months before the '58 transpolar run, a leak "no larger than a human hair" developed in the steam-condenser system.
From Time Magazine Archive
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There were two transpolar routes that passed within a few hundred miles of here, but no air transport he had ever seen made a noise like that.
From Anything You Can Do ... by Garrett, Randall
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