In November 2005 it was announced that Led Zeppelin, and Russian conductor Valery Gergiev, were the winners of the 2006 Polar Music Prize.

Among the band's awards are an American Music Award in 2005, and the Polar Music Prize in 2006.

On May 3, 2011, it was announced that Patti Smith is one of the winners of the Polar Music Prize: " By devoting her life to art in all its forms, Patti Smith has demonstrated how much rock ’ n ' roll there is in poetry and how much poetry there is in rock ’ n ' roll.

Anderson was the founder of the Polar Music record label in 1963.

At the same time, he also managed the investment of funds and the enormous financial incomes of Polar Music, holding the majority of stocks.

In 1982 Anni-Frid Lyngstad had sold all the shares in the Polar Music company given to her by Anderson, as she moved abroad.

In 1989, Anderson made a substantial financial donation to found the Polar Music Prize from money he made when he sold the multi-million dollar record company Polar Records.

In 2012, Simon was awarded the Polar Music Prize ( shared with Yo-Yo Ma ).

He received the Kalidas Samman from the Government of Madhya Pradesh for 1987 – 88, the Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize in 1991, the Ramon Magsaysay Award in 1992, and the Polar Music Prize in 1998.

As a former member of Led Zeppelin, along with Page and John Paul Jones, Plant received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005 and the Polar Music Prize in 2006.

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In 1998 he was awarded the Polar Music Prize together with Ravi Shankar in Stockholm, Sweden.

* Polar Music Prize, 1995

In 1999, Xenakis was awarded the Polar Music Prize " for a long succession of forceful works, charged with sensitivity, commitment and passion, through which he has come to rank among the most central composers of our century in the realm of art music, exercising within its various fields an influence which cannot be readily overstated ".

In May 2005 he was awarded the Polar Music Prize by Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden in Stockholm, the prize's first Latin American recipient.

In 1972, after five years at EMI Sweden, Lyngstad changed record companies and moved to the Polar Music label.

On 15 November 2005, to celebrate Lyngstad's 60th birthday, Universal Records released the box set Frida, consisting of all the solo albums she recorded for Polar Music, all digitally remastered and including a set of bonus tracks.

In 2003, Jarrett received the Polar Music Prize, the first ( and to this day only ) recipient not to share the prize with a co-recipient, and in 2004 he received the Léonie Sonning Music Prize.

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* 2011, the quartet was Laureates of The Polar Music Prize 2011 is being awarded to American string quartet Kronos Quartet.

PolyGram embarked on a new program of acquisitions, including A & M and Island Records in 1989, Swedish company Polar Music which held the rights to the ABBA catalogue, Motown in 1993, Def Jam in 1994 and Rodven ( Venezuela ) in 1995.

* Polar Music Prize 2005

In 2008 she was awarded the Swedish Polar Music Prize for her services in music.

The Polar Music Prize is regarded the foremost musical honour.

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He won the Nordic Council Music Prize in 1995, and in 1997 Ericson shared the Polar Music Prize with Bruce Springsteen: the citation was for " pioneering achievements as a conductor, teacher, artistic originator and inspirer in Swedish and international choral music ".

Still further south lies the Polar front, which is marked by a transition to very cold, relatively fresh, Antarctic Surface Water at the surface.

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.

* 1999 – The Mars Polar Lander is launched.

* The Polar Bear ( Family Ursidae ) is sometimes considered a marine mammal because of its dependence on the sea.

According to Nalan Koc of the Norwegian Polar Institute this is the first time it has been clear since they began keeping records in 1972.

Polar expeditions may use any time zone that is convenient, such as Greenwich Mean Time, or the time zone of the country they departed from.

Polar bears can hunt their preferred food of seals from the edge of sea ice, often living off fat reserves when no sea ice is present.

The full history of the subject is described in Harvard professor Julian Lowell Coolidge's Origin of Polar Coordinates.

It is the third largest land carnivore ( behind only the Polar bear and the Brown bear ).

By topography and other natural features, Ural is divided, from north to south, into the Polar ( or Arctic ), Nether-Polar ( or Sub-Arctic ), Northern, Central and Southern parts.

The Nether-Polar Ural is wider, up to and higher than the Polar Ural, with the highest peaks of the Mount Narodnaya, the Mount Karpinsky ( Urals )) and the Manaraga ).

Between the Atlantic and Polar waters, a front called the Polar Front is formed.

Polar mesospheric clouds are the highest in the atmosphere and occur mostly at altitudes of, which is about ten times the altitude of tropospheric high clouds.

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.

A large portion of the lowlands in the province of Ontario is part of the Polar Bear Provincial Park, and a similar portion of the lowlands in Manitoba is contained in Wapusk National Park, the latter location being a significant Polar Bear maternity denning area.

A large portion of this area is part of the Polar Bear Provincial Park.

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.