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USCGC Polar Sea (WAGB-11) — is a United States Coast Guard Heavy Icebreaker. Commissioned in 1978, the ship was built by Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Company of Seattle along with her sister ship, Polar Star (WAGB 10).Homeported in Seattle, Washington Polar Sea… … Wikipedia
Open Polar Sea — Silas Bent s 1872 map of the supposed Open Polar Sea. The Open Polar Sea was a hypothesized ice free ocean surrounding the North Pole. This unproven (and eventually, demonstrated false) theory was once so widely believed that many exploring… … Wikipedia
Open Polar Sea — Mer polaire ouverte Étendue de banquise comparée entre 2007 et les années précédentes. La mer polaire ouverte (anglais : Open Polar Sea) est une théorie sur la présence d une hypothétique mer sans glace entoûrant le pôle Nord. Cette théorie… … Wikipédia en Français
Sea ice — is largely formed from seawater that freezes. Because the oceans consist of saltwater, this occurs below the freezing point of pure water, at about 1.8 °C (28.8 °F). Sea ice may be contrasted with icebergs, which are chunks of ice shelves or… … Wikipedia
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Polar ice packs — [ NOAA Projected Arctic changes] Polar ice packs are large areas of pack ice formed from seawater in the Earth s polar regions, known as polar ice caps: the Arctic ice pack (or Arctic ice cap) of the Arctic Ocean and the Antarctic ice pack of the … Wikipedia
Polar 8 — The Polar 8 Project was a Canadian shipbuilding project based upon a class of 167 metre, 101,000 horsepower, diesel electric powered high endurance icebreakers (polar class PC 1) intended for the Canadian Coast Guard. The project was developed as … Wikipedia
Polar region — Earth s polar regions are the areas of the globe surrounding the poles also known as frigid zones. The North Pole and South Pole being the centers, these regions are dominated by the polar ice caps, resting respectively on the Arctic Ocean and… … Wikipedia
Polar ecology — is the relationship between plants and animals in a polar environment. Polar environments are in the Arctic and Antarctic regions. Arctic regions are in the northern hemisphere, and it contains land and the islands that surround it. Antarctic is… … Wikipedia
Polar low — over the Barents Sea on February 27, 1987 A polar low is a small scale, long lived atmospheric low pressure system (depression) that is found over the ocean areas poleward of the main polar front in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. The … Wikipedia
