North Pole, the Glossary
The North Pole, also known as the Geographic North Pole, Terrestrial North Pole or 90th Parallel North, is the point in the Northern Hemisphere where the Earth's axis of rotation meets its surface.[1]
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- Northern Canada
- Northern Hemisphere
- Polar regions of the Earth
Adventure travel
Adventure travel is a type of tourism, involving exploration or travel with a certain degree of risk (real or perceived), and which may require special skills and physical exertion.
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Airdrop
An airdrop is a type of airlift in which items including weapons, equipment, humanitarian aid or leaflets are delivered by military or civilian aircraft without their landing.
Airship
An airship is a type of aerostat or lighter-than-air aircraft that can navigate through the air flying under its own power.
Albert Hastings Markham
Admiral Sir Albert Hastings Markham (11 November 1841 – 28 October 1918) was a British explorer, author, and officer in the Royal Navy.
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Albert P. Crary
Albert Paddock Crary (July 25, 1911 – October 29, 1987), was an American pioneer polar geophysicist and glaciologist.
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Aleksandr Belyakov (navigator)
Alexander Vasilyevich Belyakov (Алекса́ндр Васи́льевич Беляко́в; – 28 November 1982) was a Soviet flight navigator who, together with command pilot Valery Chkalov and co-pilot Georgy Baydukov, set a record for the longest uninterrupted flight in 1936 and made, flying from Moscow to Vancouver, Washington.
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Aleksandr Kuznetsov (explorer)
Aleksandr Kuznetsov was the expedition leader of the first undisputed team to set foot on the North Pole.
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Alert, Nunavut
Alert, in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada, is the northernmost continuously inhabited place in the world, on Ellesmere Island (Queen Elizabeth Islands) at latitude 82°30'05" north, from the North Pole.
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Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
The Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (German: Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung) is located in Bremerhaven, Germany, and a member of the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres.
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Amphipoda
Amphipoda is an order of malacostracan crustaceans with no carapace and generally with laterally compressed bodies.
Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station
The Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station is a United States scientific research station at the South Pole of the Earth.
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Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition
Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition of 1897 was a failed Swedish effort to reach the North Pole, resulting in the deaths of all three expedition members, S. A. Andrée, Knut Frænkel, and Nils Strindberg.
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Antarctica
Antarctica is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. North Pole and Antarctica are extreme points of Earth and polar regions of the Earth.
Antipodes
In geography, the antipode of any spot on Earth is the point on Earth's surface diametrically opposite to it.
Arctic
The Arctic is a polar region located at the northernmost part of Earth. North Pole and Arctic are northern Hemisphere and polar regions of the Earth.
Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute
The Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, or AARI (translit, abbreviated as ААНИИ) is the oldest and largest Russian research institute in the field of comprehensive studies of Arctic and Antarctica.
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Arctic cooperation and politics
Arctic cooperation and politics are partially coordinated via the Arctic Council, composed of the eight Arctic states: the United States, Canada, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, and Denmark with Greenland and the Faroe Islands.
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Arctic Council
The Arctic Council is a high-level intergovernmental forum that addresses issues faced by the Arctic governments and the indigenous people of the Arctic region.
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Arctic fox
The Arctic fox (Vulpes lagopus), also known as the white fox, polar fox, or snow fox, is a small species of fox native to the Arctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere and common throughout the Arctic tundra biome.
Arctic ice pack
The Arctic ice pack is the sea ice cover of the Arctic Ocean and its vicinity.
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Arctic Ocean
The Arctic Ocean is the smallest and shallowest of the world's five oceanic divisions. North Pole and Arctic Ocean are extreme points of Earth and geography of the Arctic.
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Arktika (1972 icebreaker)
Arktika (p; literally: Arctic) is a retired nuclear-powered icebreaker of the Soviet (now Russian) ''Arktika'' class.
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Arktika 2007
Arktika 2007 (Российская полярная экспедиция "Арктика-2007") was a 2007 expedition in which Russia performed the first ever crewed descent to the ocean bottom at the North Pole, as part of research related to the 2001 Russian territorial claim, one of many territorial claims in the Arctic, made possible, in part, because of Arctic shrinkage.
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Artur Chilingarov
Artur Nikolaevich Chilingarov (Артур Николаевич Чилингаров; 25 September 1939 – 1 June 2024) was an Armenian-Russian polar explorer, a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
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Associated Press
The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.
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Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each, who primarily use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch.
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Avro Lancaster
The Avro Lancaster is a British Second World War heavy bomber.
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Axial tilt
In astronomy, axial tilt, also known as obliquity, is the angle between an object's rotational axis and its orbital axis, which is the line perpendicular to its orbital plane; equivalently, it is the angle between its equatorial plane and orbital plane.
Barneo
Camp Barneo (Лагерь Бaрнео) is a private temporary tourist resort located on Arctic Ocean ice near the North Pole.
Børge Ousland
Børge Ousland (born 31 May 1962) is a Norwegian polar explorer.
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Beijing
Beijing, previously romanized as Peking, is the capital of China.
Bering Strait
The Bering Strait (Beringov proliv) is a strait between the Pacific and Arctic oceans, separating the Chukchi Peninsula of the Russian Far East from the Seward Peninsula of Alaska.
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Biome
A biome is a distinct geographical region with specific climate, vegetation, and animal life.
Black-legged kittiwake
The black-legged kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla) is a seabird species in the gull family Laridae.
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Bothie (dog)
Bothie, also known as Bothie the Polar Dog, was a long-haired Jack Russell Terrier who was the only dog to travel to both the South and North Poles.
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Bratvaag Expedition
The Bratvaag Expedition was a Norwegian expedition in 1930 led by Dr.
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British Arctic Expedition
The British Arctic Expedition of 1875–1876, led by Sir George Nares, was sent by the British Admiralty to attempt to reach the North Pole via Smith Sound on the west coast of Greenland.
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Canada Post
Canada Post Corporation (Société canadienne des postes), trading as Canada Post (Postes Canada), is a Crown corporation that functions as the primary postal operator in Canada.
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Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame
Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame, based in The Hangar Flight Museum in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, commemorates and honours those whose accomplishments in aviation contributed so much to Canada's development as a nation.
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Canadian Eskimo Dog
The Canadian Eskimo Dog or Canadian Inuit Dog is a breed of working dog from the Arctic.
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Canadian Global Affairs Institute
The Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI) is an independent, non-partisan research institute based in Calgary with an office in Ottawa.
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Cape Columbia
Cape Columbia is the northernmost point of land of Canada, located on Ellesmere Island in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut.
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CCGS Captain Molly Kool
CCGS Captain Molly Kool is a Canadian Coast Guard converted medium class icebreaker.
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CCGS Louis S. St-Laurent
CCGS Louis S. St-Laurent (NGCC Louis S. St-Laurent) is a Canadian Coast Guard (CCG) heavy icebreaker.
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Celestial pole
The north and south celestial poles are the two points in the sky where Earth's axis of rotation, indefinitely extended, intersects the celestial sphere.
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Chandler wobble
The Chandler wobble or Chandler variation of latitude is a small deviation in the Earth's axis of rotation relative to the solid earth, which was discovered by and named after American astronomer Seth Carlo Chandler in 1891.
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Charles Francis Hall
Charles Francis Hall (– November 8, 1871) was an American Arctic explorer, best known for his collection of Inuit testimony regarding the 1845 Franklin Expedition and the suspicious circumstances surrounding his death while leading the American-sponsored ''Polaris'' expedition in an attempt to be the first to reach the North Pole.
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Charles R. Burton
Charles Robert Burton (13 December 1942 – 15 July 2002) known as Charlie Burton was an English explorer, best known for his part in the Transglobe Expedition, the first expedition to circumnavigate the globe from pole to pole.
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Chicago
Chicago is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States.
Chief Directorate of the Northern Sea Route
The Chief Directorate of the Northern Sea Route (translit), also known as Glavsevmorput or GUSMP (ГУСМП), was a Soviet government organization in charge of the maritime Northern Sea Route, established in January 1932 and dissolved in 1964. North Pole and Chief Directorate of the Northern Sea Route are navigation.
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Christmas
Christmas is an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ, observed primarily on December 25 as a religious and cultural celebration among billions of people around the world.
Climate change
In common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system.
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Climate change in the Arctic
Due to climate change in the Arctic, this polar region is expected to become "profoundly different" by 2050.
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Commonwealth of Nations
The Commonwealth of Nations, often simply referred to as the Commonwealth, is an international association of 56 member states, the vast majority of which are former territories of the British Empire from which it developed.
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Cosmology in the Muslim world
Islamic cosmology is the cosmology of Islamic societies.
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Culture of Iran
The culture of Iran or culture of PersiaYarshater, Ehsan, Iranian Studies, vol.
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Dante Alighieri
Dante Alighieri (– September 14, 1321), most likely baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri and widely known and often referred to in English mononymously as Dante, was an Italian poet, writer, and philosopher.
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Douglas C-47 Skytrain
The Douglas C-47 Skytrain or Dakota (RAF designation) is a military transport aircraft developed from the civilian Douglas DC-3 airliner.
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Drift ice
Drift ice, also called brash ice, is sea ice that is not attached to the shoreline or any other fixed object (shoals, grounded icebergs, etc.).Leppäranta, M. 2011.
Drifting ice station
A drifting ice station is a temporary or semi-permanent facility built on an ice floe.
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Earth's rotation
Earth's rotation or Earth's spin is the rotation of planet Earth around its own axis, as well as changes in the orientation of the rotation axis in space.
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Edmund Hillary
Sir Edmund Percival Hillary (20 July 1919 – 11 January 2008) was a New Zealand mountaineer, explorer, and philanthropist.
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Effects of climate change
Effects of climate change are well documented and growing for Earth's natural environment and human societies.
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Ellesmere Island
Ellesmere Island (lit; île d'Ellesmere) is Canada's northernmost and third largest island, and the tenth largest in the world.
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Erling Kagge
Erling Kagge (born January 15, 1963) is a Norwegian explorer, publisher, author, lawyer, art collector, entrepreneur and politician.
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Ernst Krenkel
Ernst Teodorovich Krenkel (Эрнст Теодо́рович Кре́нкель; in Białystok – 8 December 1971 in Moscow) was a Soviet Arctic explorer, radio operator, and doctor of geographical sciences (1938).
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Exclusive economic zone
An exclusive economic zone (EEZ), as prescribed by the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, is an area of the sea in which a sovereign state has exclusive rights regarding the exploration and use of marine resources, including energy production from water and wind.
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Farthest North
Farthest North describes the most northerly latitude reached by explorers, before the first successful expedition to the North Pole rendered the expression obsolete. North Pole and Farthest North are geography of the Arctic.
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Flag of Russia
The national flag of the Russian Federation (Государственный флаг Российской Федерации) is a tricolour of three equal horizontal bands: white on the top, blue in the middle, and red on the bottom.
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Floyd Bennett
Floyd Bennett (October 25, 1890 – April 25, 1928) was a United States Naval Aviator who, along with then USN Commander Richard E. Byrd, made the first flight to the North Pole in May 1926.
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Fokker F.VII
The Fokker F.VII, also known as the Fokker Trimotor, was an airliner produced in the 1920s by the Dutch aircraft manufacturer Fokker, Fokker's American subsidiary Atlantic Aircraft Corporation, and several other companies under license.
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Folklore
Folklore is the body of expressive culture shared by a particular group of people, culture or subculture.
Fram (ship)
Fram ("Forward") is a ship that was used in expeditions of the Arctic and Antarctic regions by the Norwegian explorers Fridtjof Nansen, Otto Sverdrup, Oscar Wisting, and Roald Amundsen between 1893 and 1912.
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Franz Josef Land
Franz Josef Land (Zemlya Frantsa-Iosifa) is a Russian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean.
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Frederick Cook
Frederick Albert Cook (June 10, 1865 – August 5, 1940) was an American explorer, physician and ethnographer, who is most known for allegedly being the first to reach the North Pole on April 21, 1908.
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Fridtjof Nansen
Fridtjof Wedel-Jarlsberg Nansen (10 October 1861 – 13 May 1930) was a Norwegian polymath and Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
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Geological Survey of Canada
The Geological Survey of Canada (GSC; Commission géologique du Canada, CGC) is a Canadian federal government agency responsible for performing geological surveys of the country developing Canada's natural resources and protecting the environment.
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George W. De Long
George Washington De Long (August 22, 1844 –) was a United States Navy officer and explorer who led the ill-fated ''Jeannette'' expedition of 1879–1881, in search of the Open Polar Sea.
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Georgy Baydukov
Georgy Filippovich Baydukov (Гео́ргий Фили́ппович Байдуко́в; – 28 December 1994) was a Soviet test pilot, Hero of the Soviet Union (1936), writer and hunter.
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Greenland
Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat,; Grønland) is a North American island autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark.
Greenwich Mean Time
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is the local mean time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London, counted from midnight.
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Guinness World Records
Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 1999 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a British reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.
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Henry Corbin
Henry Corbin (14 April 1903 – 7 October 1978) was a French philosopher, theologian, and Iranologist, professor of Islamic studies at the École pratique des hautes études.
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Hjalmar Johansen
Fredrik Hjalmar Johansen (15 May 1867 – 3 January 1913) was a Norwegian polar explorer.
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HMS Superb (S109)
HMS Superb was a nuclear-powered fleet submarine of the serving in the Royal Navy.
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Hollywood Burbank Airport
Hollywood Burbank Airport, formerly called Bob Hope Airport after entertainer Bob Hope, is a public airport northwest of downtown Burbank, in Los Angeles County, California, United States.
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Hyperborea
In Greek mythology, the Hyperboreans (hyperbóre(i)oi,; Hyperborei) were a mythical people who lived in the far northern part of the known world.
Icebreaker
An icebreaker is a special-purpose ship or boat designed to move and navigate through ice-covered waters, and provide safe waterways for other boats and ships.
International Astronomical Union
The International Astronomical Union (IAU; Union astronomique internationale, UAI) is an international non-governmental organization (INGO) with the objective of advancing astronomy in all aspects, including promoting astronomical research, outreach, education, and development through global cooperation.
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International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service
The International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS), formerly the International Earth Rotation Service, is the body responsible for maintaining global time and reference frame standards, notably through its Earth Orientation Parameter (EOP) and International Celestial Reference System (ICRS) groups.
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International law
International law (also known as public international law and the law of nations) is the set of rules, norms, and standards that states and other actors feel an obligation to obey in their mutual relations and generally do obey.
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The International Seabed Authority (ISA) (Autorité internationale des fonds marins) is a Kingston, Jamaica-based intergovernmental body of 167 member states and the European Union established under the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) and its 1994 Agreement on Implementation.
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International Terrestrial Reference System and Frame
The International Terrestrial Reference System (ITRS) describes procedures for creating reference frames suitable for use with measurements on or near the Earth's surface.
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Inuit
Inuit (ᐃᓄᐃᑦ 'the people', singular: Inuk, ᐃᓄᒃ, dual: Inuuk, ᐃᓅᒃ; Iñupiaq: Iñuit 'the people'; Greenlandic: Inuit) are a group of culturally and historically similar Indigenous peoples traditionally inhabiting the Arctic and subarctic regions of North America, including Greenland, Labrador, Quebec, Nunavut, the Northwest Territories, Yukon (traditionally), Alaska, and Chukotsky District of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia.
Inuit Circumpolar Council
The Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC; Inuit Issittormiut Siunnersuisooqatigiiffiat; formerly the Inuit Circumpolar Conference) is a multinational non-governmental organization (NGO) and Indigenous Peoples' Organization (IPO) representing the 180,000 Inuit and Yupik (sometimes referred to as Eskimo) people living in Alaska (United States), Canada, Greenland (Kingdom of Denmark), and the Chukchi Peninsula (Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia).
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Isostasy
Isostasy (Greek ''ísos'' 'equal', ''stásis'' 'standstill') or isostatic equilibrium is the state of gravitational equilibrium between Earth's crust (or lithosphere) and mantle such that the crust "floats" at an elevation that depends on its thickness and density.
Italia (airship)
The Italia was a semi-rigid airship belonging to the Italian Air Force.
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Ivan Papanin
Ivan Dmitriyevich Papanin (Иван Дмитриевич Папанин; – 30 January 1986) was a Soviet polar explorer, scientist, Counter Admiral, and twice Hero of the Soviet Union, who was awarded nine Orders of Lenin.
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Jack Russell Terrier
The Jack Russell Terrier is a British breed of small terrier.
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Jason (1881 ship)
Jason was a Norwegian whaling vessel laid down in 1881 by Rødsverven in Sandefjord, Norway, the same shipyard which later built Ernest Shackleton's ship ''Endurance''.
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Joseph O. Fletcher
Joseph Otis Fletcher (May 16, 1920 – July 6, 2008) was an American Air Force pilot and polar explorer.
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Kaffeklubben Island
Kaffeklubben Island or Coffee Club Island (Kaffeklubben Ø; Inuit Qeqertaat) is an uninhabited island lying off the northern shore of Greenland. North Pole and Kaffeklubben Island are extreme points of Earth.
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Kayak
A kayak is a small, narrow human-powered watercraft typically propelled by means of a long, double-bladed paddle.
Kotelny Island
Kotelny Island (r; translit) is part of the Anzhu Islands subgroup of the New Siberian Islands located between the Laptev Sea and the East Siberian Sea in the Russian Arctic.
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Kvitøya
Kvitøya (English: "White Island") is an island in the Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, with an area of.
Lada Niva
The Lada Niva Legend, formerly called the Lada Niva, VAZ-2121, VAZ-2131, and Lada 4×4 (ВАЗ-2121, ВАЗ-2131, Лада Нива), is a series of four-wheel drive, small (hatchback), and compact (wagon and pickup) off-road cars designed and produced by AvtoVAZ since 1977.
Latitude
In geography, latitude is a coordinate that specifies the north–south position of a point on the surface of the Earth or another celestial body. North Pole and latitude are navigation.
Lead (sea ice)
A lead (rhymes with "reed") is a large fracture within an expanse of sea ice, defining a linear area of open water that can be used for navigation purposes.
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Legend
A legend is a genre of folklore that consists of a narrative featuring human actions, believed or perceived to have taken place in human history.
Leonhard Euler
Leonhard Euler (15 April 170718 September 1783) was a Swiss mathematician, physicist, astronomer, geographer, logician, and engineer who founded the studies of graph theory and topology and made pioneering and influential discoveries in many other branches of mathematics such as analytic number theory, complex analysis, and infinitesimal calculus.
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Lewis Pugh
Lewis William Gordon Pugh, OIG, (born 5 December 1969) is a British-South African endurance swimmer and ocean advocate.
Lincoln Ellsworth
Lincoln Ellsworth (May 12, 1880 – May 26, 1951) was a polar explorer from the United States and a major benefactor of the American Museum of Natural History.
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Longitude
Longitude is a geographic coordinate that specifies the east–west position of a point on the surface of the Earth, or another celestial body. North Pole and Longitude are navigation.
Los Angeles
Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.
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Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.
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Mandaean cosmology
Mandaean cosmology is the Gnostic conception of the universe in the religion of Mandaeism.
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Mandaeans
Mandaeans (المندائيون), also known as Mandaean Sabians (الصابئة المندائيون) or simply as Sabians (الصابئة), are an ethnoreligious group who are followers of Mandaeism.
Mandi (Mandaeism)
A mandi, mashkhanna (ࡌࡀࡔࡊࡍࡀ), or beth manda (beit manda, ࡁࡉࡕ ࡌࡀࡍࡃࡀ, 'house of knowledge'; also bimanda), is a Mandaean building that serves as a community center and place of worship.
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March equinox
The March equinox or northward equinox is the equinox on the Earth when the subsolar point appears to leave the Southern Hemisphere and cross the celestial equator, heading northward as seen from Earth.
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Matthew Henson
Matthew Alexander Henson (August 8, 1866March 9, 1955) was an African American explorer who accompanied Robert Peary on seven voyages to the Arctic over a period of nearly 23 years.
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Midnight sun
Midnight sun, also known as polar day, is a natural phenomenon that occurs in the summer months in places north of the Arctic Circle or south of the Antarctic Circle, when the Sun remains visible at the local midnight. North Pole and midnight sun are geography of the Arctic.
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Mir (submersible)
Mir (world, peace) was a class of two self-propelled deep-submergence vehicles.
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MLAE-2009
In 2009, the Marine Live-ice Automobile Expedition (MLAE) successfully traversed the Arctic waters and ice between Ostrov Sredniy island of the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago and the North Pole.
Moscow State University
Moscow State University (MSU; Moskovskiy gosudarstvennyy universitet) is a public research university in Moscow, Russia.
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Moscow Time
Moscow Time (MSK, moskovskoye vremya) is the time zone for the city of Moscow, Russia, and most of western Russia, including Saint Petersburg.
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Motorcycle
A motorcycle (motorbike, bike, or, if three-wheeled, a trike) is a two or three-wheeled motor vehicle steered by a handlebar from a saddle-style seat.
Mount Qaf
Mount Qaf, or Qaf-Kuh, also spelled Cafcuh and Kafkuh (قافکوه), or Jabal Qaf, also spelled Djebel Qaf (جبل قاف), or Koh-i-Qaf, also spelled Koh-Qaf and Kuh-i-Qaf or Kuh-e Qaf (کوہ قاف) is a legendary mountain in the popular mythology of the Middle East.
National Geographic Society
The National Geographic Society (NGS), headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States, is one of the largest nonprofit scientific and educational organizations in the world.
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Neil Armstrong
Neil Alden Armstrong (August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012) was an American astronaut and aeronautical engineer who in 1969 became the first person to walk on the Moon.
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Norge (airship)
The Norge was a semi-rigid Italian-built airship that carried out the first verified trip of any kind to the North Pole, an overflight on 12 May 1926.
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North magnetic pole
The north magnetic pole, also known as the magnetic north pole, is a point on the surface of Earth's Northern Hemisphere at which the planet's magnetic field points vertically downward (in other words, if a magnetic compass needle is allowed to rotate in three dimensions, it will point straight down). North Pole and north magnetic pole are geography of the Arctic and polar regions of the Earth.
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North Pole, Alaska
North Pole is a small city in the Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska, United States.
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North Pole, New York
North Pole is a small hamlet located in the town of Wilmington within Essex County, New York, United States, in the Adirondack Mountains.
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North Pole-1
North Pole-1 (Северный полюс-1) was the world's first Soviet manned drifting station in the Arctic Ocean, primarily used for research.
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Northern fulmar
The northern fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis), fulmar, or Arctic fulmar is a highly abundant seabird found primarily in subarctic regions of the North Atlantic and North Pacific oceans.
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Northern Hemisphere
The Northern Hemisphere is the half of Earth that is north of the Equator.
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Nuclear-powered icebreaker
A nuclear-powered icebreaker is an icebreaker with an onboard nuclear power plant that produces power for the vessel's propulsion system.
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Oden (1988 icebreaker)
Oden is a large Swedish icebreaker, built in 1988 for the Swedish Maritime Administration.
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Open Polar Sea
The Open Polar Sea was a conjectured ice-free body of water that was believed to encircle the North Pole.
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Orbital pole
An orbital pole is either point at the ends of the orbital normal, an imaginary line segment that runs through a focus of an orbit (of a revolving body like a planet, moon or satellite) and is perpendicular (or normal) to the orbital plane.
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Orography
Orography is the study of the topographic relief of mountains, and can more broadly include hills, and any part of a region's elevated terrain.
Oxford Institute for Energy Studies
The Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, founded in 1982, is an independent energy research institute, based in Oxford.
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Plate tectonics
Plate tectonics is the scientific theory that Earth's lithosphere comprises a number of large tectonic plates, which have been slowly moving since 3–4 billion years ago.
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Polar bear
The polar bear (Ursus maritimus) is a large bear native to the Arctic and nearby areas.
Polar night
Polar night is a phenomenon in the northernmost and southernmost regions of Earth where night lasts for more than 24 hours. North Pole and Polar night are polar regions of the Earth.
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Polar Record
Polar Record is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering all aspects of Arctic and Antarctic exploration and research.
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Polar route
A polar route is an aircraft route across the uninhabited polar ice cap regions. North Pole and polar route are polar regions of the Earth.
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Polaris
Polaris is a star in the northern circumpolar constellation of Ursa Minor.
Polaris expedition
The Polaris expedition of 1871–1873 was one of the first serious attempts to reach the North Pole after that of British naval officer Sir Edward Parry, who reached 82° 45′ N in 1827.
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Pole of inaccessibility
In geography, a pole of inaccessibility is the farthest (or most difficult to reach) location in a given landmass, sea, or other topographical feature, starting from a given boundary, relative to a given criterion. North Pole and pole of inaccessibility are extreme points of Earth, geography of the Arctic and polar regions of the Earth.
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Poles of astronomical bodies
The poles of astronomical bodies are determined based on their axis of rotation in relation to the celestial poles of the celestial sphere.
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Polynya
A polynya is an area of open water surrounded by sea ice. North Pole and polynya are geography of the Arctic and polar regions of the Earth.
Postal codes in Canada
A Canadian postal code (code postal) is a six-character string that forms part of a postal address in Canada.
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Pressure ridge (ice)
A pressure ridge, when consisting of ice in an oceanic or coastal environment, is a linear pile-up of sea ice fragments formed in pack ice by accumulation in the convergence between floes.
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Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi
Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi, (29 January 1873 – 18 March 1933) was an Italian mountaineer and explorer, briefly Infante of Spain as son of Amadeo I of Spain, member of the royal House of Savoy and cousin of the Italian King Victor Emmanuel III.
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Purgatorio
Purgatorio (Italian for "Purgatory") is the second part of Dante's Divine Comedy, following the Inferno and preceding the Paradiso.
Pyotr Shirshov
Pyotr Petrovich Shirshov (Пётр Петрович Ширшов; 17 February 1953) was a Soviet oceanographer, hydrobiologist, polar explorer, statesman, academician (1939), the first minister of Ministry of Maritime Fleet of the USSR and Hero of the Soviet Union (1938).
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Ralph Plaisted
Ralph Summers Plaisted (September 30, 1927 – September 8, 2008) was an American explorer who, with his three companions, Walt Pederson, Gerry Pitzl and Jean-Luc Bombardier, are regarded by most polar authorities to be the first to succeed in a surface traverse across the ice to the North Pole on April 19, 1968, making the first confirmed surface conquest of the Pole.
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Ranulph Fiennes
Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, 3rd Baronet (born 7 March 1944), commonly known as Sir Ranulph Fiennes and sometimes as Ran Fiennes, is a British explorer, writer and poet, who holds several endurance records.
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Regia Marina
The paren) (RM) or Royal Italian Navy was the navy of the Kingdom of Italy (Regno d'Italia) from 1861 to 1946. In 1946, with the birth of the Italian Republic (Repubblica Italiana), the Regia Marina changed its name to Marina Militare ("Military Navy").
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Resolute Bay
Resolute Bay is an Arctic waterway in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada.
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Richard E. Byrd
Richard Evelyn Byrd Jr. (October 25, 1888 – March 11, 1957), an American naval officer, was a pioneering American aviator, polar explorer, and organizer of polar logistics.
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Richard Weber (explorer)
Richard Weber, (born June 9, 1959, in Edmonton, Alberta) is a Canadian Arctic and polar adventurer.
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Ringed seal
The ringed seal (Pusa hispida) is an earless seal inhabiting the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions.
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Roald Amundsen
Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen (16 July 1872 –) was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions.
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Robert Peary
Robert Edwin Peary Sr. (May 6, 1856 – February 20, 1920) was an American explorer and officer in the United States Navy who made several expeditions to the Arctic in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Rossiyskaya Gazeta
(lit) is a Russian newspaper published by the Government of Russia.
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Roy Koerner
Roy Koerner MBE was a Polar explorer who participated in the 1968-1969 surface crossing of the Arctic Ocean with expedition leader Sir Wally Herbert.
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Royal Air Force
The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the air and space force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies.
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Royal Canadian Air Force
The Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF; Aviation royale canadienne, ARC) is the air and space force of Canada. Its role is to "provide the Canadian Forces with relevant, responsive and effective airpower". The RCAF is one of three environmental commands within the unified Canadian Armed Forces.
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Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, and a component of His Majesty's Naval Service.
Rudolf Island
Prince Rudolf Land, Crown Prince Rudolf Land, Prince Rudolf Island or Rudolf Island (Остров Рудольфа) is the northernmost island of the Franz Josef Archipelago, Russia and is home to the northernmost point in Russia.
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Rupes Nigra
The Rupes Nigra ("Black Rock"), a phantom island, was believed to be a black rock located at the Magnetic North Pole or at the geographic North Pole itself.
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Russian Geographical Society
The Russian Geographical Society (Ру́сское географи́ческое о́бщество (РГО)), or RGO, is a learned society based in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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RV Polarstern
RV Polarstern (meaning pole star) is a German research icebreaker of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) in Bremerhaven, Germany.
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Salomon August Andrée
Salomon August Andrée (18 October 1854 – October 1897), during his lifetime most often known as S. A. Andrée, was a Swedish engineer, physicist, aeronaut and polar explorer who died while leading an attempt to reach the Geographic North Pole by hydrogen balloon.
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Santa Claus
Santa Claus (also known as Saint Nicholas, Saint Nick, Father Christmas, Kris Kringle, Santa, or Klaus) is a legendary figure originating in Western Christian culture who is said to bring gifts during the late evening and overnight hours on Christmas Eve.
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Santa's workshop
In Christmas folklore and legends, Santa's Workshop is the workshop where Santa Claus and his elves live and make the toys and presents given out at Christmas.
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Scott Polar Research Institute
The Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI) is a centre for research into the polar regions and glaciology worldwide.
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Scuba diving
Scuba diving is a mode of underwater diving whereby divers use breathing equipment that is completely independent of a surface breathing gas supply, and therefore has a limited but variable endurance.
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Sea anemone
Sea anemones are a group of predatory marine invertebrates constituting the order Actiniaria.
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Sea ice
Sea ice arises as seawater freezes.
September equinox
The September equinox (or southward equinox) is the moment when the Sun appears to cross the celestial equator, heading southward.
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Severnaya Zemlya
Severnaya Zemlya (lit) is a archipelago in the Russian high Arctic.
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Sextant
A sextant is a doubly reflecting navigation instrument that measures the angular distance between two visible objects.
Shinji Kazama
Shinji Kazama (born 26 September 1950) is a Japanese motorcyclist who rode to the North and South Poles on motorcycles.
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Shrimp
A shrimp (shrimp (US) or shrimps (UK) is a crustacean (a form of shellfish) with an elongated body and a primarily swimming mode of locomotion – typically belonging to the Caridea or Dendrobranchiata of the order Decapoda, although some crustaceans outside of this order are also referred to as "shrimp".
Sled dog
A sled dog is a dog trained and used to pull a land vehicle in harness, most commonly a sled over snow.
Snow bunting
The snow bunting (Plectrophenax nivalis) is a passerine bird in the family Calcariidae.
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Snowmobile
A snowmobile, also known as a snowmachine, motor sled, motor sledge, skimobile, or snow scooter, is a motorized vehicle designed for winter travel and recreation on snow.
Solstice
A solstice is the time when the Sun reaches its most northerly or southerly excursion relative to the celestial equator on the celestial sphere.
South Pole
The South Pole, also known as the Geographic South Pole or Terrestrial South Pole, is the southernmost point on Earth and lies antipodally on the opposite side of Earth from the North Pole, at a distance of 20,004 km (12,430 miles) in all directions. North Pole and south Pole are extreme points of Earth and polar regions of the Earth.
Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.
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Soviet–Canadian 1988 Polar Bridge Expedition
The Soviet–Canadian 1988 Polar Bridge Expedition (also known as Skitrek) began on March 3, 1988, when a group of thirteen Russian and Canadian skiers set out from Siberia, in an attempt to ski to Canada over the North Pole.
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Sufism
Sufism is a mystic body of religious practice found within Islam which is characterized by a focus on Islamic purification, spirituality, ritualism and asceticism.
Sunrise
Sunrise (or sunup) is the moment when the upper rim of the Sun appears on the horizon in the morning.
Sunset
Sunset (or sundown) is the disappearance of the Sun below the horizon of the Earth (or any other astronomical object in the Solar System) due to its rotation.
Svalbard
Svalbard, previously known as Spitsbergen or Spitzbergen, is a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean.
Taymyr (1909 icebreaker)
Taymyr was an icebreaking steamer of 1,200 tons built for the Russian Imperial Navy at Saint Petersburg in 1909.
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The Hague Academy of International Law
The Hague Academy of International Law (Académie de droit international de La Haye) is a center for high-level education in both public and private international law housed in the Peace Palace in The Hague, Netherlands.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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Tom Avery
Tom Avery, FRGS (born 17 December 1975) is a British explorer, author and motivational speaker.
Transglobe Expedition
The Transglobe Expedition (1979–1982) was the first expedition to make a longitudinal (north–south) circumnavigation of the Earth using only surface transport.
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True north
True north (also called geodetic north or geographic north) is the direction along Earth's surface towards the place where the imaginary rotational axis of the Earth intersects the surface of the Earth. North Pole and True north are geography of the Arctic and navigation.
Tug of war
Tug of war (also known as tug o' war, tug war, rope war, rope pulling, or tugging war) is a sport that pits two teams against each other in a test of strength: teams pull on opposite ends of a rope, with the goal being to bring the rope a certain distance in one direction against the force of the opposing team's pull.
Twilight
Twilight is light produced by sunlight scattering in the upper atmosphere, when the Sun is below the horizon, which illuminates the lower atmosphere and the Earth's surface.
Umberto Cagni
Umberto Cagni (24 February 1863, Asti – 22 April 1932, Genoa) was a polar explorer and an admiral in the Royal Italian Navy.
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Umberto Nobile
Umberto Nobile (21 January 1885 – 30 July 1978) was an Italian aviator, aeronautical engineer and Arctic explorer.
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United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), also called the Law of the Sea Convention or the Law of the Sea Treaty, is an international treaty that establishes a legal framework for all marine and maritime activities.
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United States Air Force
The United States Air Force (USAF) is the air service branch of the United States Armed Forces, and is one of the eight uniformed services of the United States.
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University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is a public collegiate research university in Cambridge, England.
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University of Giessen
University of Giessen, official name Justus Liebig University Giessen (Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen), is a large public research university in Giessen, Hesse, Germany.
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USCGC Healy
USCGC Healy (WAGB-20) is the United States' largest and most technologically advanced icebreaker as well as the US Coast Guard's largest vessel.
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USCGC Polar Sea
USCGC Polar Sea (WAGB-11) is a United States Coast Guard heavy icebreaker.
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USS Archerfish (SSN-678)
USS Archerfish (SSN-678), a ''Sturgeon''-class attack submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the archerfish, a family (Toxotidae) of fish notable for their habit of preying on insects and other animals by shooting them down with squirts of water from the mouth.
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USS Billfish (SSN-676)
USS Billfish (SSN-676), a ''Sturgeon''-class attack submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the billfish, a name used for any fish, such as gar or spearfish, with bill-shaped jaws.
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USS Charlotte (SSN-766)
USS Charlotte (SSN-766), a, is the fourth ship of the United States Navy to be named for Charlotte, North Carolina.
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USS Gurnard (SSN-662)
USS Gurnard (SSN-662), a, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the gurnard, a food fish of the genus Trigla and part of the sea robin family.
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USS Hawkbill (SSN-666)
USS Hawkbill (SSN-666), a attack submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the hawksbill, a large sea turtle.
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USS Nautilus (SSN-571)
USS Nautilus (SSN-571) was the world's first operational nuclear-powered submarine and on 3 August 1958 became the first submarine to complete a submerged transit of the North Pole.
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USS Pintado (SSN-672)
USS Pintado (SSN-672), a short hull attack submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the pintado, a large mackerel-like fish, whose elongated spots suggested the Spanish language word meaning "painted.".
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USS Ray (SSN-653)
USS Ray (SSN-653), a ''Sturgeon''-class attack submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the rays.
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USS Sea Devil (SSN-664)
USS Sea Devil (SSN-664), a ''Sturgeon''-class attack submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the sea devil (Manta birostria), also known as the manta ray or devil ray, the largest of all living rays, noted for power and endurance.
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USS Seahorse (SSN-669)
USS Seahorse (SSN-669), a ''Sturgeon''-class attack submarine, was the second submarine and third ship of the United States Navy to be named for the seahorse.
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USS Skate (SSN-578)
USS Skate (SSN-578) was the third submarine of the United States Navy named for the skate, a type of ray, was the lead ship of the of nuclear submarines.
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UTC+04:00
UTC+04:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +04:00.
Utqiagvik, Alaska
Utqiagvik (Utqiaġvik), formerly known as Barrow, is the borough seat and largest city of the North Slope Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska.
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Valery Chkalov
Valery Pavlovich Chkalov (Валерий Павлович Чкалов;; – 15 December 1938) was a test pilot awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union (1936).
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Vasily Igorevich Yelagin
Vasily Igorevich Yelagin (Василий Игоревич Елагин; born 22 February 1953) is Russian mountaineer and explorer, head of the MLAE-2008, MLAE-2009, MLAE-2011, MLAE-2013, MLAE-2014, and MLAE-2015 expeditions.
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Voenizdat
Voenizdat (Воениздат) was a publishing house in Moscow, Russia that was one of the first and largest publishing houses in USSR.
Vokrug sveta
Vokrug sveta (Вокруг света, literally: "Around the World") is a Russian geographic magazine.
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Wally Herbert
Sir Walter William Herbert (24 October 1934 – 12 June 2007) was a British polar explorer, writer and artist.
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Ward Hunt Island
Ward Hunt Island is a small, uninhabited island in the Arctic Ocean, located off the north coast of Ellesmere Island near the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf.
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Welland Phipps
Welland Wilfred Phipps (July 23, 1922 – October 22, 1996), nicknamed Weldy and Angayuroluk, was a Canadian military pilot and prisoner of war during World War II, a pioneer bush pilot, inventor and a territorial level politician.
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Western culture
Western culture, also known as Western civilization, European civilization, Occidental culture, or Western society, includes the diverse heritages of social norms, ethical values, traditional customs, belief systems, political systems, artifacts and technologies of the Western world.
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Will Steger
Will Steger (born August 27, 1944 in Richfield, Minnesota) is a prominent spokesperson for the understanding and preservation of the Arctic and has led some of the most significant feats in the field of dogsled expeditions; such as the first confirmed dogsled journey to the North Pole (without re-supply) in 1986, the 1,600-mile south–north traverse of Greenland - the longest unsupported dogsled expedition in history at that time in 1988, the historic 3,471-mile International Trans-Antarctic Expedition - the first dogsled traverse of Antarctica (1989–90), and the International Arctic Project - the first and only dogsled traverse of the Arctic Ocean from Russia to Ellesmere Island in Canada during 1995.
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Willem Barentsz
Willem Barentsz (– 20 June 1597), anglicized as William Barents or Barentz, was a Dutch navigator, cartographer, and Arctic explorer.
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William Edward Parry
Sir William Edward Parry (19 December 1790 – 8 July 1855) was a Royal Navy officer and explorer best known for his 1819–1820 expedition through the Parry Channel, probably the most successful in the long quest for the Northwest Passage, until it was finally negotiated by Roald Amundsen in 1906.
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William Pershing Benedict
William Pershing Benedict (July 20, 1918 – August 31, 1974) was an American pilot who was born in Ruth, Nevada and raised in California.
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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI, acronym pronounced) is a private, nonprofit research and higher education facility dedicated to the study of marine science and engineering.
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World Meteorological Organization
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for promoting international cooperation on atmospheric science, climatology, hydrology and geophysics.
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World of Darkness (Mandaeism)
In Mandaeism, the World of Darkness (translit) is the underworld located below Tibil (Earth).
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World of Light
In Mandaeism, the World of Light or Lightworld (translit) is the primeval, transcendental world from which Tibil and the World of Darkness emerged.
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Yevgeny Fyodorov (scientist)
Yevgeny Konstantinovich Fyodorov (Евгений Константинович Фёдоров; 10 April, 1910 – 30 December 1981) was a Soviet geophysicist, statesman, public figure, academician (1960), and Hero of the Soviet Union (1938).
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See also
Northern Canada
- Arctic Archipelago
- Arctic Inspiration Prize
- Arctic policy of Canada
- ArcticNet
- British Arctic Territories
- Canadian Arctic Archipelago
- Canadian Arctic tundra
- Canadian Internal Waters
- Central Inuit
- Frontier Lands
- Indigenous peoples in Northern Canada
- Junior Canadian Rangers
- Last Ice Area
- Nord-du-Québec
- Nordicity
- North Pole
- Northern Alberta
- Northern Canada
- Northern Saskatchewan Administration District
- Northwest Passage
- Northwest Territories
- Nunavut
- Operation Hurricane (Canada)
- Operation Musk Ox
- Polar Knowledge Canada
- Polar Medal (Canada)
- Remote and isolated community
- Section 30 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
- Territorial Formula Financing
- Volcanism of Northern Canada
- Yukon
Northern Hemisphere
- Africa
- Arctic
- Asia
- Dutch elm disease
- Europe
- Holarctic
- Mediterranean
- North America
- North Pole
- Northern Hemisphere
- South America
- Subarctic
Polar regions of the Earth
- American Polar Society
- Antarctic region
- Antarctica
- Arctic
- Aurora
- Circumpolar distribution
- Extreme points of the Arctic
- Geographical pole
- Jewish law in the polar regions
- North Pole
- North Water Polynya
- North magnetic pole
- Permafrost
- Polar Libraries Colloquy
- Polar climate
- Polar drift
- Polar exploration
- Polar forests of the Cretaceous
- Polar night
- Polar regions of Earth
- Polar route
- Polar vortex
- Pole of Cold
- Pole of inaccessibility
- Pole stars
- Polynya
- South Pole
- South magnetic pole
- Third Pole
- Three Poles Challenge
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Pole
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