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/pˈoʊlər rˈidʒən/ Listen

Polar region

noun

The part of the Earth's surface forming a cap over a pole; characterized by frigid climate. Synonyms: Frigid Zone, polar zone.

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... the storm into the Pacific over the polar region, accomplishing four thousand three hundred and fifty miles in nineteen hours, or about three miles a minute, a speed almost double that which the "Albatross" was equal to with her propellers under ordinary circumstances. ...

— Rubur the Conqueror • Jules Verne

... about seven thousand stars visible to the naked eye, and of those but nineteen are stars of the first magnitude. Thirteen of them are visible in the latitude of New York, the other six belong to the South Polar Region of the sky. Here is Flammarion's arrangement of them in order of seeming brightness. Those that can be seen in the Southern Hemisphere only, are ...

— Boy Scouts Handbook - The First Edition, 1911 • Boy Scouts of America

Words linked to "Polar region" : polar zone, North Frigid Zone, climatic zone, Antarctic, Antarctic Zone, South Frigid Zone, arctic, Arctic Zone