polar
Example Sentences
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As polar ices melt in the coming years, new shipping routes are expected to open up.
From BBC
Greenland is literally the polar opposite of Venezuela: a lightly populated, democratically governed territory of Denmark, itself a North Atlantic Treaty Organization ally that cooperates closely with the U.S. on security.
These convoys also had to battle the polar ice, which crept south in winter, narrowing the sea lanes between the icepack and the German bases in Norway.
Forget, for now, that “polar bear” ocean swim.
From Los Angeles Times
Work is under way on a South Atlantic island to preserve a key building in the story of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton.
From BBC
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