Polaris (disambiguation)

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

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

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