Polaris is a Finnish icebreaker. Built in 2016 by Arctech Helsinki Shipyard, she is the most powerful icebreaker ever to fly the Finnish flag and the first...
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Look up Polaris, polaris, Poláris, or poláris in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Polaris is a star, also known as the North Star. Polaris may also refer...
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A number of ships have been named Polaris: Polaris (icebreaker), a 2016 Finnish icebreaker Polaris (motor yacht), a 1930 motor yacht that later became...
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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...
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A nuclear-powered icebreaker is an icebreaker with an onboard nuclear power plant that produces power for the vessel's propulsion system. Although more...
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This is a list of icebreakers and other special icebreaking vessels (except cargo ships and tankers) capable of operating independently in ice-covered...
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Polar Class (category Icebreakers)
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MSV Nordica (redirect from Finnish icebreaker Nordica (1994))
Nordica became again the newest icebreaker in service in Finland until the delivery of the new icebreaker, Polaris, in 2016. The maximum overall length...
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communities. Cleanup of the Polaris mine site took two years, with environmental monitoring until 2011. Nanisivik Mine "Polaris Mine". Geographical Names...
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Lenin (Russian: Ленин) is a Soviet nuclear-powered icebreaker, the first nuclear-powered icebreaker in the world. Launched in 1957, it is both the world's...
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star that is approximately aligned with the axis of rotation of a planet Polaris, North Pole star of the Earth Polestar, a monument in Letterkenny Polestar...
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the world's largest and most powerful icebreakers until the 2016 launch of the first Project 22220 icebreaker, also named Arktika. Ships of the Arktika...
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MV Arctic (redirect from MV Arctic (icebreaker))
Arctic previously serviced mines in the high Canadian Arctic such as Polaris and Nanisivik Mine. Once those mines closed she was shifted to service...
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The first icebreaker Krassin, or Krasin, (Russian: Красин) was built for the Imperial Russian Navy as Svyatogor. She had a long, distinguished career in...
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ships. The company was involved in the building of an eco-friendly icebreaker Polaris, which entered service in early 2017. ILS Oy. Kauppalehti. Retrieved...
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Finland’s new icebreaker Polaris named at Helsinki Shipyard. Arctech Helsinki Shipyard, 11 December 2015. Retrieved 2015-12-17. Polaris moved to the outfitting...
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А́рктика, IPA: [ˈarktʲɪkə]; literally: Arctic) is a retired nuclear-powered icebreaker of the Soviet (now Russian) Arktika class. In service from 1975 to 2008...
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Ермак, IPA: [jɪrˈmak]) was a Russian and later Soviet icebreaker. It was the first polar icebreaker in the world, having a strengthened hull shaped to ride...
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Oy is Finnish state-owned company responsible for operating a Finnish icebreaker fleet. The company was established as Arctia Shipping Oy in 2010 when...
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Finnish state-owned icebreaker. Built by Wärtsilä Helsinki shipyard in 1987 as a replacement for the aging Karhu-class icebreakers, she and her sister...
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to the Polaris expedition. Works about the Polaris expedition at Open Library Polaris expedition lantern slides at Dartmouth...
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North magnetic pole (redirect from Project Polaris)
"magnetic island" somewhere in the far north (see Rupes Nigra), or to Polaris, the pole star. The idea that Earth itself acts as essentially a giant...
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Notes 3 January Finland Arctech Helsinki Shipyard Helsinki, Finland Polaris Icebreaker For Finnish Transport Agency 15 January Finland Meyer Turku Shipyard...
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Varma is a Latvian icebreaker. She was built at the Wärtsilä Helsinki Shipyard, Finland and delivered to the Finnish National Board of Navigation in 1968...
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Edward Parry, who in 1827 reached latitude 82°45′ North. In 1871, the Polaris expedition, a US attempt on the Pole led by Charles Francis Hall, ended...
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August–September 2022 together with the Swedish icebreaker Oden and the drilling vessel Dina Polaris. Although the participation was not confirmed until...
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ship in Newfoundland. In 1917 the Russian government bought her to be an icebreaker. She served the RSFSR and Soviet Union until 1942, when she was sunk by...
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Joseph B. Icenhower, USN, Commanding Icebreaker USS Burton Island. CDR Gerald L. Ketchum, USN, Commanding Icebreaker USCGC Northwind. Capt. Charles W. Thomas...
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Georgy Sedov (redirect from Icebreaker Georgy Sedov)
Sea, and a cape in Antarctica bear Sedov's name. There was also a steam icebreaker Georgy Sedov. Today, the sail training barque STS Sedov bears his name...
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North Star in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. North Star is a name of Polaris in its role as northern pole star. North Star or North Stars may also refer...
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