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The polar bear ( Ursus maritimus) is a large bear native to the Arctic and nearby areas. It is closely related to the brown bear, and the two species can interbreed. The polar bear is the largest extant species of bear and land carnivore, with adult males weighing 300–800 kg (660–1,760 lb). The species is sexually dimorphic, as adult ...
Fram. expedition. Nansen's Fram expedition of 1893–1896 was an attempt by the Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen to reach the geographical North Pole by harnessing the natural east–west current of the Arctic Ocean. In the face of much discouragement from other polar explorers, Nansen took his ship Fram to the New Siberian Islands in the ...
The American Expeditionary Force, North Russia ( AEF in North Russia) (also known as the Polar Bear Expedition) was a contingent of about 5,000 United States Army troops [ 1] that landed in Arkhangelsk, Russia as part of the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War. It fought the Red Army in the surrounding region during the period of ...
The zoo added a third polar bear in 2013 and further expanded Polar Frontier in 2014. In 2015, one of the bears in the Polar Frontier, Aurora, gave birth to a bear cub, which the zoo named Nora. [30] Nora, born on November 6, 2015, was the first polar bear born and raised at the zoo since the opening of Polar Frontier. She now resides at the ...
A pair of polar bears attacked and killed a worker at a remote government radar site in the Canadian Arctic, the facility's operator said, marking at least the second fatal polar bear attack since ...
Noah is a male polar bear who discovers the floating island whilst adrift on an ice floe in the North Atlantic Ocean, and is eventually elected as the island's captain because of his strong leadership skills. He is eccentric yet ambitious, and his main goal in life is to turn the floating island into a safe haven for all animals.
In Inuit religion, Nanook ( / ˈnænuːk /; Inuktitut: ᓇᓄᖅ[ 1] [naˈnuq], [ 2] lit. "polar bear") was the master of bears, meaning he decided if hunters deserved success in finding and hunting bears and punished violations of taboos. [ 3] The word was popularized by Nanook of the North, the first feature-length documentary. [citation needed]
Event. On 5 August 2011, a polar bear in the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard attacked a party of thirteen university students, who were undertaking an expedition organised by the British Schools Exploring Society (BSES), and were camped near the Von Post glacier, 25 miles (40 km) from the settlement of Longyearbyen. [ 1] The bear was reported ...