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Definition of Transpolar
1. Adjective. Extending across or crossing either pole. "Transpolar air routes"
Definition of Transpolar
1. Adjective. extending across, or crossing one of the poles, or a polar region ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Transpolar
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Transpolar
Literary usage of Transpolar
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Northward Course of Empire by Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1922)
"CHAPTER VII transpolar COMMERCE BY AIR A GLANCE at a map of the northern hemisphere
shows that the Arctic Ocean is in effect a huge Mediterranean. ..."
2. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1858)
"... ever pierce wood in Arctic countries, and hence he concluded that the worm-eaten
drifted fragment had been borne by currents from a transpolar region. ..."
3. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1921)
"... the parallel of latitude amounts to about 1300 statute mile*. diving petrels,
namely South Georgia and Tasmania, the discrepancy between the transpolar ..."
4. Frost and Fire: Natural Engines, Tool-marks and Chips, with Sketches Taken by John Francis Campbell (1865)
"The " north-east passage," and the transpolar passage, are as useless as the "
north-west passage," and for the same reason—the sea is blocked by a broken ..."
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