Article: polar regions

Article: Wilkes Land
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      2 words ...see Antarctica .

Article: George V Coast
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      3 words ...region: see Antarctica .

Article: polar exploration
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      4 words ...see Antarctica ; Arctic, the .

Article: Queen Mary Coast
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      3 words ...region: see Antarctica .

Article: Queen Maud Land
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      3 words ...region: see Antarctica .

Article: polar regions, geological exploration of
The Oxford Companion to the Earth;      13 words ...polar regions, geological exploration of see geological exploration of the polar regions

Article: snowfield
The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English;      20 words ...snow·field / ˈsnōˌfēld / • n. a permanent wide expanse of snow in mountainous or polar regions.

Article: South Pole
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      30 words ...southern end of the earth's axis, lat. 90° S. It is distinguished from the south magnetic pole . The South Pole was reached by Roald Amundsen, a Norwegian explorer, in 1911. See Antarctica .

Article: anorak
The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English;      23 words ...an·o·rak / ˈanəˌrak / • n. a waterproof jacket, typically with a hood, of a kind originally used in polar regions.

Article: Polar regions and the development of international law.
Arctic;  March 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......with a balanced approach to the two polar regions. He justifies the latter on the basis...into four parts. Part I introduces the polar regions and their environment and resources...under the heading The impact of the polar regions. One chapter deals with the polar ...

Article: At The Ends of the Earth: A History of the Polar Regions. (Books of Note).
Environment;  November 1, 2002 ;     327 words ......1-55963-908-3) Most outsiders imagine the polar regions as remote, barren expanses of frozen...imagined, explored, and exploited the polar regions and their resources. However, descriptions...centuries and continue to make the polar regions increasingly vulnerable to environmental...

Article: A review of tourism research in the polar regions.
Arctic;  December 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......that are largely similar in the two polar regions. Polar tourism research appears to...activity in both northern and southern polar regions. It appears that geographic isolation...For various reasons, however, the polar regions are generally regarded as fragile environments...

Article: Not cool.(UPDATES)(Brief article)
World Watch;  May 1, 2009 ;     67 words ......interpolate temperatures in the areas between the stations, researchers concluded in January that the continent warmed an average of 0.1 degree Celsius per decade from 1957 through 2006. See Antarctica and Climate Change, January/February 2009, p. 6

Article: hekistotherm
A Dictionary of Ecology;      24 words ...hekistotherm A cold-tolerant plant of polar regions, according to A. L. P. de Candolle's (1874) classic temperature-based scheme of world vegetation zones.