• Trans Polar A/S was a Norwegian charter airline which operated between June 1970 and May 1971. The airline operated a fleet of three Boeing 720s and had...
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  • The polar regions, also called the frigid zones or polar zones, of Earth are Earth's polar ice caps, the regions of the planet that surround its geographical...
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    Shipping in Arctic Waters: A Comparison of the Northeast, Northwest and Trans Polar Passages. Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-16790-4. ISBN 978-3642167898...
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  • A polar route is an aircraft route across the uninhabited polar ice cap regions. The term "polar route" was originally applied to great circle navigation...
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    Cis–trans isomerism, also known as geometric isomerism, describes certain arrangements of atoms within molecules. The prefixes "cis" and "trans" are from...
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    Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter—on an 11-hour, 1,430-mile (2,300 km), non-stop trans-polar flight across the Antarctic continent from Shackleton Base via the Pole...
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    Shipping in Arctic Waters: A Comparison of the Northeast, Northwest and Trans Polar Passages. Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-16790-4. ISBN 978-3642167898...
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    Shipping in Arctic Waters: A Comparison of the Northeast, Northwest and Trans Polar Passages. Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-16790-4. ISBN 978-3642167898...
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  •  Luxembourg Luxair  Malta Air Malta  Netherlands Transavia Holland  Norway Trans Polar  Portugal Air Atlantis TAP Air Portugal  Romania TAROM  Turkey Turkish...
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  • estimated $52m. Polar provides scheduled freight service covering the transpacific, transatlantic, trans-Asia, and Middle East markets. Polar offers frequent...
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    fields, on 13 February 1934. Valery Chkalov, who made the first-ever Trans-polar flight, was awarded the title on 24 July 1936. Valentina Grizodubova...
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    A grizzly-polar-bear-hybrid (also named grolar bear, pizzly bear, zebra bear, grizzlar, or nanulak) is a rare ursid hybrid that has occurred both in captivity...
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    allowed free transit to other European destinations via Copenhagen, this trans-polar route gained increasing popularity with American tourists throughout...
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    Shipping in Arctic Waters: A Comparison of the Northeast, Northwest and Trans Polar Passages. Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-16790-4. ISBN 978-3642167898...
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    used if available. Satellite coverage may be limited at high latitudes (trans-polar flights). Sample ACARS VHF transmission The sound of an ACARS VHF transmission...
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    This capacity allows the 777-200LR to operate ultra-long-distance, trans-polar routes such as Toronto to Hong Kong. In 2013, a new wing made of composite...
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    were erected. In 1954, Scandinavian Airlines began the world's first trans-polar route, flying initially to Los Angeles. The route proved to be a publicity...
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    Malmgren in the hours before their arrival at the pole. Nobile considered a trans-polar route to Mackenzie Bay in Canada but, according to Nobile, Malmgren advised...
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    performed several long-distance flights, including round-the-world and trans-polar trips. The Lancaster remained at the forefront of RAF Bomber Command...
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    Northern Sea Route (category Polar exploration by Russia and the Soviet Union)
    Shipping in Arctic Waters: A Comparison of the Northeast, Northwest and Trans Polar Passages. Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-16790-4. ISBN 978-3642167898...
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    railwaypro.com. 21 October 2016. "Russia Explores Re-Development Of Its Trans-Polar Railway". Russia Briefing (Dezan Shira & Associates). April 21, 2020...
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    was used in a search for the lost flyers of the Sigizmund Levanevsky trans-polar flight in 1937. Movie stunt flyer Jimmie Mattern flew a specially modified...
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    Aeroamerica  Nicaragua Aeronica 1 x 720B used from 1982 to 1989  Norway Trans Polar 3 x 720  Pakistan Pakistan International Airlines ● 4 x 720B delivered...
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  • went missing during a trans-polar flight from Moscow to Alaska in 1937. Hollick-Kenyon is most widely known as a pilot in the trans-Antarctic flight of...
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  • a friendly trans polar bear who identifies as male until the episode "Dr. Peepoodo", in which Dr. Pussycat counsels her about being trans off-screen,...
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    Flight International: 921. 5 December 1968. Retrieved 19 July 2017. "Trans-polar Charter". Flight International: 1019. 19 December 1968. Retrieved 19...
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  • A polar orbit is one in which a satellite passes above or nearly above both poles of the body being orbited (usually a planet such as the Earth, but possibly...
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    There are no board edges, so kings always have eight adjacent squares. Trans-polar diagonal moves mostly differentiate between variants. Thrones Chess:[citation...
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    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...
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  • 2021 and 2023 and will continue until at least 2040. In recent years, Trans-polar shipping along the Northeast Passage has become more viable due to the...
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