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polar regions: see Antarctica Antarctica , the fifth largest continent, c.5,500,000 sq mi (14,245,000 sq km), asymmetrically centered on the South Pole and almost entirely within the Antarctic Circle.
..... Click the link for more information. ; Arctic, the Arctic, the northernmost area of the earth, centered on the North Pole. The arctic regions are not coextensive with the area enclosed by the Arctic Circle (lat.
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polar regions [′pō·lər ‚rē·jənz]

(geography)

The regions near the geographic poles; no definite limit for these regions is recognized.

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No references found			"It is very much," replied Barbicane; "the temperature which was observed in the polar regions, at Melville Island and Fort Reliance, that is 76@ Fahrenheit below zero. Round The Moon by Verne, Jules View in context So they came and went every day, with a peculiar shriek from the locomotive, from and to some point of the polar regions, as it seemed to me, like a flock of arctic snow-birds. Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Henry David View in context The same with a returning explorer from the polar regions, or the latest literary or artistic success. The Iron Heel by London, Jack View in context			Polar Front polar glacier polar high polar ice polar keying polar lake polar line polar low polar maritime air polar meteorology polar migration polar modulation polar molecule polar mutations polar navigation Polar Night polar normal polar nucleus polar orbit polar outbreak Polar Plateau polar plumes polar projection polar radiation pattern polar reciprocal convex bodies polar regions polar relay polar resolution polar sequence polar solvent Polar Stations polar subnormal polar subtangent polar symmetry polar tangent polar telescope polar timing diagram polar transmission polar triangle polar trough Polar Tube Polar Urals polar variation polar vector polar vortex polar wandering polar westerlies polar-cap absorption polar-cap ice polar-class icebreaker polar-coordinate navigation system			Polar orbit Polar orbit Polar Orbiting Density Scanner Polar Orbiting Geomagnetic Satellite Polar Orbiting Geomagnetic Survey Polar Orbiting Geophysical Observatory Polar Orbiting Lunar Observatory Polar Orbiting Platform Polar Orbiting Satellite Polar Orbiting Satellite System designed by University of Michigan polar orbits polar orbits Polar Organic Chemical Integrative Sampler polar outbreak Polar Ozone and Aerosol Measurement Polar Path Compass Polar plane Polar Plasma Laboratory Polar Plasma Wave Investigation Polar plateau Polar plot polar plumes Polar projection Polar projection polar radiation pattern polar reciprocal convex bodies Polar region Polar region polar regions Polar Regions Outer Magnetosphere International Study polar relay Polar Remote Interactive Marine Observatory Polar Research Institute of China Polar Research Institute of Marine Fisheries and Oceanography polar resolution Polar reversal Polar reversal Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle Polar Science Center polar sequence polar sequence Polar solvent Polar solvent Polar solvent Polar solvent Polar solvent Polar Space Launch Vehicle Polar Spatial Query Polar spherical triangle polar spongioblastoma polar spongioblastoma polar spongioblastoma polar star polar star polar star polar stars polar stars Polar Stations Polar Stereographic

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