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
• Polaris P. Polanski, an alias of Byakuya Togami in the novel Danganronpa Togami, by Yuya Sato

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 and EPs

• Polaris (Kangta album), 2001
• Polaris (Stratovarius album), 2009
• Polaris (Tesseract album), 2015
• Polaris (EP), 2020 EP by Aitch

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
• "Polaris", the sixth opening theme for My Hero Academia and the first for season 4, by Blue Encount
• "Polaris", from the album After the Magic by Parannoul

Prizes

• Polaris Music Prize

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

• Polaris (2016 film), a 2016 film directed by Soudabeh Moradian
• Polaris (2022 film), a 2022 film directed by Kirsten Carthew
• Polaris (periodical), produced by Visual Collaborative
• Polaris Tower, a giant Ferris wheel at Kumdori Land, Yuseong-gu, Daejon, Korea
• Polaris, a subsidiary of Disney Digital Network specialising in video game culture

Brands and enterprises

• Polaris drinking water, a Thai bottled water brand
• Polaris Entertainment, South Korean record label
• Polaris Fashion Place, Columbus, Ohio, a two level shopping mall and surrounding retail plaza
• Polaris Inc., American snowmobile, ATV, and motorcycle manufacturer
• Polaris Motor, an Italian ultralight trike manufacturer
• Polaris Pro Grappling, a British 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 (Pukkuksong means Polaris in Korean) in North Korea
• UGM-27 Polaris, an early United States submarine-launched ballistic missile that was also used by United Kingdom
• Polaris (UK nuclear programme), a British nuclear weapons programme for Resolution-class ballistic missile submarines

Transport

• Polaris (train), manufactured in China
• Polaris program, a commercial human spaceflight project
• Polaris Dawn, a private spaceflight mission planned for 2024

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 (ship), a list of ships
• Polaris (icebreaker), a 2015 Finnish icebreaker
• MS Polaris, a Russian-owned passenger ship built in Denmark in 1968
• RV <i>Polaris</i>, 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
• Project Polaris, a U.S.-Canadian military aerial survey of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago
• Polaris Project, an American anti-human-trafficking organization

See also

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• Polestar (disambiguation)
• Polar (disambiguation)
• Polara (disambiguation)
• Polari, a form of cant slang
• All pages with titles beginning with Polaris
• All pages with titles containing Polaris
• North Star (disambiguation)

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This page was last edited on 10 February 2024, at 08:39