Polaris (disambiguation)
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Polaris is a star, also known as the North Star.
Polaris may also refer to:
Geography
- Polaris, California, in Nevada County, United States
- Polaris, Montana, in Beaverhead County, United States
- Polaris mine, Little Cornwallis Island, Nunavut, Canada
Arts, entertainment, and media
Fictional entities
- Polaris (Marvel Comics), a Marvel Comics superhero
- Polaris galaxy, featured in the video game Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction
- Polaris, the ultimate antagonist of the video game Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor 2
- Polaris Hilda, character from the Saint Seiya anime and manga/comics
- Doctor Polaris, a DC Comics villain
Games
- Polaris (1997 role-playing game)
- Polaris (2005 role-playing game)
- Polaris (video game), a 1980 arcade game
Literature
- Polaris (novel), by Jack McDevitt
- "Polaris" (short story), by H. P. Lovecraft
Music
Groups
- Polaris (Australian band), an Australian metalcore band
- Polaris (American band), an American rock band
Albums
- Polaris (Kangta album), 2001
- Polaris (Stratovarius album), 2009
- Polaris (Tesseract album), 2015
Compositions and songs
- Polaris (composition), 2010 composition by Thomas Adès
- "Polaris" (song), from the album Twilight of the Innocents by Ash
- "Polaris", from the album Futures by Jimmy Eat World
- "Rust in Peace... Polaris", from the album Rust in Peace by Megadeth
- "Polaris" (ポラリス), from the album Karma by MUCC
- "Polaris", from the single Silent Bible by Nana Mizuki
- "Polaris", from the album Nocturne by The Human Abstract
- "Polaris", from the album Simple Things by Zero 7
Prizes
- Polaris Award in civil aviation
- Polaris Music Prize
Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media
- Polaris (film), a 2016 film
- Polaris (periodoial), produced by Visual Collaborative
- Polaris Tower, a giant Ferris wheel at Kumdori Land, Yuseong-gu, Daejon, Korea
Brands and enterprises
- Polaris, a subsidiary of Maker Studios
- Polaris, a revolving restaurant atop the Hyatt Regency Atlanta in Atlanta, Georgia
- Germain Amphitheater (originally the Polaris Amphitheater), Columbus, Ohio, was an outdoor entertainment venue
- Polaris Fashion Place, Columbus, Ohio, a two level shopping mall and surrounding retail plaza
- Polaris Industries, United States snowmobile, ATV, and motorcycle manufacturer
- Polaris Motor, an Italian ultralight trike manufacturer
- Polaris Pro Grappling, a Brittish grappling tournament running since 2015
Computing
- Polaris (poker bot)
- Polaris (processor)
- Polaris, the GPU architecture featured in AMD's Radeon RX 400 and RX 500 series
- Polaris, an integrated library system from Innovative Interfaces, Inc.
- Polaris, a port of Solaris to PowerPC
- Polaris, the development codename for Windows Media Player 11
- Polaris Office, office suite that runs on mobile platforms
Military
- Polaris spacecraft, or TecSAR, Israeli reconnaissance satellite
- Polaris-1, a North Korean submarine-launched ballistic missile, which is commonly known as KN-11 by the West and Pukkuksong-1 (Which Pukkuksong means into Polaris in Korean) in North Korea
- UGM-27 Polaris, an early United States submarine-launched ballistic missile that was also used by United Kingdom
- UK Polaris programme, a British nuclear weapons programme for Resolution-class ballistic missile submarines
Transport
- Polaris (train), manufactured in China
Aviation
- Airbus CC-150 Polaris, a Canadian military plane
- B&F Fk14 Polaris, a German ultralight aircraft
- Polaris, United Airlines business class product
- Polaris Award, awarded to airline crews
Ships
- Polaris (icebreaker), a 2015 Finnish icebreaker
- MS Polaris, a Russian-owned passenger ship built in Denmark in 1968
- RV Polaris, listed on the National Register of Historic Places listings in San Mateo County, California
- USS Amber (PYc-6), known as Polaris, a 1930 motor yacht that later became a patrol vessel
- USS Polaris, a steamer sunk in 1872 on an Arctic expedition
- USS Polaris (AF-11), a freighter built in 1938
Other uses
- Polaris (convention), an annual science fiction and fantasy convention
- POLARIS (seismology), an underground experiment to observe seismic signals
- Polaris expedition, an American attempt to reach the North Pole which resulted in Commander Charles F. Hall's suspicious death
- Polaris Project, an American anti-human-trafficking organization
See also
- Polara (disambiguation)
- Polari, a form of cant slang
- All pages with titles beginning with Polaris
- All pages with titles containing Polaris
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