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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 routes between Europe and the west coast of North America in the 1950s.[1]

  1. ^ For instance, Aviation Week 22 July 1957 p47 reports on "polar routes" from California to Europe granted to Pan Am and TWA.

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Polar route

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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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Singapore Airlines Flights 23 and 24

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while SQ23 back to Singapore sometimes opts, instead of the westward polar route, to fly a ground distance of 16,500 km (10,300 mi; 8,900 nmi) eastward...

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Scandinavian Airlines

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1954, SAS became the first airline to commence scheduled flights on a polar route, flying Douglas DC-6Bs from Copenhagen to Los Angeles with stops in Søndre...

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Arctic Ocean

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Since 1954 commercial airlines have flown over the Arctic Ocean (see Polar route). The Arctic Ocean occupies a roughly circular basin and covers an area...

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Polar climate

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The polar climate regions are characterized by a lack of warm summers but with varying winters. Every month a polar climate has an average temperature...

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Longest flights

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while SQ23 back to Singapore sometimes opts, instead of the westward polar route, to fly a ground distance of 16,500 km (10,300 mi; 8,900 nmi) eastward...

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Nasaasaaq

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the Polar Route from Sisimiut to Kangerlussuaq. The race was inaugurated in 1998, since then becoming an international competition. The Polar Route passes...

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Yakutsk Airport

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Airlines and Polar Airlines. Construction of the airport started in 1931, and it was used as a stopover on the ALSIB Alaska-Siberia air route for American...

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Air France accidents and incidents

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a Boeing 707-328 (F-BHSA, named Chateau de Versailles) operating the polar route from Paris Orly via Hamburg and Anchorage to Tokyo Haneda veered to the...

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Tarajornitsut

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In the future the area will become a protected nature reserve. The Polar Route from Sisimiut to Kangerlussuaq ends in Tarajornitsut, on the shore of...

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Alanngorsuaq

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the Polar Route from Sisimiut to Kangerlussuaq. The race was inaugurated in 1998, since then becoming an international competition. The Polar Route passes...

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Canadian Pacific Air Lines

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Transport Statistics 1960–2000 The development of the great circle or polar route to the Far East from CP Air's Vancouver base would become one of the...

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Solar particle event

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Polar cap absorption events and the associated HF radio blackout pose unique problems to commercial and military aviation. Routes that transit polar regions...

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Alykel International Airport

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is capable of handling wide-body jets, it is a diversion airport on Polar route 1. Since Norilsk does not have road or railroad connections to the rest...

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Jet stream

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the remainder of the jet. The strongest jet streams are the polar jets around the polar vortices, at 9–12 km (5.6–7.5 mi; 30,000–39,000 ft) above sea...

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Northern Sea Route

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Arctic ice is melting and Polar routes are being extensively studied, the amount of cargo shipped through the Northern Sea Route (NSR) remains low in comparison...

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Tolmachevo Airport

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use it for refueling stops. It serves also as a diversion airport on Polar route 1. Tolmachevo is the busiest airport in Siberia and the sixth-busiest...

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Kangerlussuaq Airport

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(SAS) was flying "Polar route" service with three round trip flights per week being operated with Douglas DC-6B propliners on a routing of Copenhagen -...

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Copenhagen Airport

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Scandinavian Airlines began the world's first trans-polar route, flying initially to Los Angeles. The route proved to be a publicity coup, and for some years...

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Airbus A340

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and Singapore–Newark nonstop routes SQ21 and SQ22. The former was an 18-hour, 45-minute 'westbound' (actually a polar route northbound to 130 km (70 nm)...

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International Airport Irkutsk

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airport serves as a diversion airport for transcontinental flights and Polar route 2. The airport is located within the city limits. At the airport there...

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Antipodes

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closed great circle route starting on the equator and traveling at an angle between 0° (an equatorial route) and 90° (a polar route) would be between 40...

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Ionizing radiation

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6 μSv per hour from London Heathrow to Tokyo Narita on a high-latitude polar route. However, dosages can vary, such as during periods of high solar activity...

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Lufthansa

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the Boeing 727 in 1964. This enabled Lufthansa to launch a pioneering Polar route from Frankfurt to Tokyo via Anchorage in May of that year. Further expansion...

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Polar Electro

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Polar Electro Oy (commonly known as Polar) is a Finnish manufacturer of sports training computers, particularly known for developing the world's first...

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Lockheed Constellation

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from Los Angeles to London via the polar route, as told from the left seat of a Connie. "Longer Range, New Routes". 16 September 2019. Retrieved 2020-07-26...

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Iqaluit Airport

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more than 15 passengers. The airport serves as a diversion airport on polar routes. The airport is owned by the Government of Nunavut (GN) and operated...

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