Polar bears are thought to have diverged from a population of brown bears that became isolated during a period of glaciation in the Pleistocene.

En route the South Pole party discovered the Beardmore Glacier, ( named after Shackleton's patron ), and became the first persons to see and travel on the South Polar Plateau.

Storm learned to be an accomplished dancer and became an excellent ice skater at Houston's Polar Palace.

Polar Express became the most successful film to be released in IMAX theatres, producing at least a quarter of the film's gross of $ 302 million from less than 100 IMAX screens.

Late in life, through his affiliation with Dartmouth College ( he was Director of Polar Studies ), he became a major figure in the establishment of the US Army's Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory ( CRREL ) in Hanover, New Hampshire.

In 1941 he became the third honorary member of the American Polar Society.

Polar lows were first identified on the meteorological satellite imagery that became available in the 1960s, which revealed many small-scale cloud vortices at high latitudes.

The line became so popular that a further engine, Polar Bear, and additional coach stock was purchased.

After meeting fellow Legion reject Polar Boy, she became one of the founding members of the Legion of Substitute Heroes.

Polar provides scheduled freight service covering the transpacific, transatlantic, trans-asia, and Middle East markets.

For example, Polar has shipped horses, cattle, race cars and helicopters across the Atlantic ; critically needed supplies to Tsunami victims ; and the rock band Green Day ’ s musical equipment from one tightly scheduled performance in Glasgow to another at the 47th Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles.

Recent significant organizing victories include more than 12, 600 workers at UPS Freight, 9, 000 mechanics at United Airlines, 22, 000 school bus drivers at First Student / FirstGroup since 2006 under the union ’ s Drive Up Standards campaign, 3, 200 customer service representatives at America West Airlines, and nearly 900 crewmembers of Atlas Air, Inc. and Polar Air Cargo Worldwide.

In 1986 Fiennes was awarded the Polar Medal for " outstanding service to British Polar exploration and research.

After years of service, the Hero was retired in 1984 and replaced by the R / V Polar Duke, a larger and more modern ice-strengthened vessel under charter from Rieber Shipping, based in Bergen, Norway.

The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, usually known by its abbreviation PSLV, is an expendable launch system developed to allow India to launch its Indian Remote Sensing ( IRS ) satellites into sun synchronous orbits, a service that was, until the advent of the PSLV, commercially viable only from Russia.

By the late 1960s the engines had been removed from the glen and Polar Bear was restored as an operating exhibit at Amberley Working Museum, West Sussex and Sea Lion was taken to Loughborough where it remained until 1987 when it was finally restored and returned to service on the restored line.

The Medal may be conferred on those citizens of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland who have personally, made conspicuous contributions to the knowledge of Polar regions or who have rendered prolonged service of outstanding quality in support of acquistion of such knowledge and who, in either case, have undergone the hazards and rigours imposed by the Polar environment.

The Medal may also be awarded in recognition of individual service of outstanding quality in support of the objectives of Polar expeditions, due account being taken of the difficulties overcome.

In November 2001, Polar was acquired by Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings ( AAWW ), whose Atlas Air subsidiary is a leading provider of ACMI ( Aircraft, Crew, Maintenance and Insurance ) freighter leasing.

Polar unit vectors at two times t and t + dt for a particle with trajectory r ( t ); on the left the unit vectors u < sub > ρ </ sub > and u < sub > θ </ sub > at the two times are moved so their tails all meet, and are shown to trace an arc of a unit radius circle.

The Little Ice Age may have reduced the population of the Great Auk by exposing more of their breeding islands to predation by Polar Bears, but massive exploitation for their down drastically reduced the population.

Polar bears use their fur for warmth and while their skin is black, their transparent fur appears white and provides camouflage while hunting and serves as protection by hiding cubs in the snow.

Distribution area from Polar overlaps with Coca-Cola of Northern New England in Massachusetts ; for example, Shaw's Supermarkets and Stop & Shop are generally supplied by Polar while Market Basket uses CCNNE.

Polar bears have evolved unique features for Arctic life.

In 1882 – 1883, a German expedition for the First International Polar Year was stationed at Royal Bay on the southeast side of the island.

Norway grants permission for any nation to conduct research on Svalbard, resulting in the Polish Polar Station and the Chinese Arctic Yellow River Station, plus Russian facilities in Barentsburg.

The Polar Ural extends for about from the Mount Konstantinov Kamen in the north to the Khulga River in the south ; it has an area of about and a strongly dissected relief.

* South Polar Expedition ; instructions and preparations for the voyage

** Polar circle, either of two circles of latitude marking the extreme southerly points ( northern hemisphere ) or northerly points ( southern hemisphere ) at which the sun may remain above or below the horizon for 24 continuous hours at some point during the year

In July 2011 The Federal Aviation Administration ( FAA ) issued a ruling that approves the use of Iridium for Future Air Navigation System ( FANS ) data links, enabling satellite data links with air traffic control ( ATC ) for aircraft flying in the FANS environment including areas not served by Inmarsat ( above or below 70 Degrees Latitude ) which includes Polar routes.

Brest is also an important research centre, mainly focused on the sea, with among others the largest Ifremer ( French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea ) centre, le Cedre ( Centre of Documentation, Research and Experimentation on Accidental Water Pollution ) and the French Polar Institute.

Eureka, which is the second northernmost settlement in the world, consists of three areas, " Eureka Aerodrome " which includes " Fort Eureka " ( the quarters for military personnel maintaining the island's communications equipment ), the Environment Canada Weather Station and the Polar Environmental Atmospheric Research Laboratory ( PEARL ), formally the Arctic Stratospheric Ozone ( AStrO ) Observatory.

Northern Lights is a common name for the Aurora Borealis ( Polar Aurorae ) in the Northern Hemisphere.

Among them are the Alfred-Wegener-Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Verein Jordsand and Wadden Sea Conservation Station.

* The Austro-Hungarian polar expedition led by Weyprecht was selected as main motif for the Austrian Admiral Tegetthoff Ship and The Polar Expedition commemorative coin minted on June 8, 2005.

* The Austro-Hungarian polar expedition led by Julius von Payer was selected as main motif for the Austrian Admiral Tegetthoff Ship and The Polar Expedition commemorative coin minted on 8 June 2005.

The expedition was selected as main motif for the Austrian Admiral Tegetthoff Ship and The Polar Expedition commemorative coin minted on June 8, 2005.

In 1895, von Neumayer had established the German Commission for South Polar Exploration, which culminated in the First German Antarctica Expedition in 1901, the so-called Gauss expedition.

Data and images from the First International Polar Year have very recently been made available for browsing and download on the Web.

Logo for the International Polar Foundation

The rad-hard version of the 8085 has been in on-board instrument data processors for several NASA and ESA space physics missions in the 1990s and early 2000s, including CRRES, Polar, FAST, Cluster, HESSI, the Sojourner Mars Rover, and THEMIS.

Centre for Polar Observation & Modelling glaciologists Duncan Wingham and Martin Siegert published in 2006 that many of the subglacial lakes of Antarctica are at least temporarily interconnected.