Polaris (disambiguation)

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Polaris is a star, also known as the North Star.

Polaris may also refer to:

Places

Canada

• Polaris mine, Little Cornwallis Island, Nunavut

Korea

• Polaris Tower, a giant Ferris wheel at Kumdori Land, Yuseong-gu, Daejon

United States

• Polaris, California, in Nevada County
• Polaris, Montana, in Beaverhead County
• Polaris Amphitheater, Columbus, Ohio
• Polaris Fashion Place, Columbus, Ohio
• Polaris, a revolving restaurant atop the Hyatt Regency Atlanta in Atlanta, Georgia

Art, entertainment, and media

Comics

• Polaris (comics), a Marvel Comics superhero

Fictional entities

• Doctor Polaris, a DC Comics villain
• 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

Games

• Polaris (1997 role-playing game)
• Polaris (2005 role-playing game)
• Polaris (arcade game)

Literature

• Polaris (novel), by Jack McDevitt
• "Polaris" (short story), by H. P. Lovecraft

Music

Groups

• Polaris (band)

Prizes

• Polaris Music Prize

Albums

• Polaris (Kangta album)
• Polaris (Stratovarius album)
• Polaris (Tesseract album)

Songs

• "Polaris" (song), from the album Twilight of the Innocents by Ash
• "Polaris", from the album Futures by Jimmy Eat World
• "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
• "Rust in Peace... Polaris", from the album Rust in Peace by Megadeth

Compositions

• Polaris (composition), 2010 composition by Thomas Adès

Computing

• Polaris (poker bot)
• Polaris (processor)
• Polaris Office, office suite that runs on mobile platforms
• 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, the GPU architecture featured in the AMD Radeon RX 400 Series.

Transport

• Polaris (train), manufactured in China
• Polaris Industries, United States snowmobile, ATV, and motorcycle manufacturer

Aviation

• Polaris Award, awarded to airline crews
• Polaris Motor, an Italian ultralight trike manufacturer
• Airbus CC-150 Polaris, a Canadian military plane
• B&F Fk14 Polaris, a German ultralight aircraft

Ships

• Polaris, previously named USS Periwinkle (1865–1871) and America (1864), a steamer sunk in 1872
• Polaris, a motor yacht that later became patrol vessel USS Amber (PYc-6)
• MS Polaris, a Russian-owned passenger ship built in Denmark in 1968
• USS Polaris (AF-11), a freighter built in 1938
• Polaris (research vessel), listed on the National Register of Historic Places in San Mateo County, California
• Polaris (icebreaker), a Finnish icebreaker

Military

• UGM-27 Polaris, an early United States Submarine-launched ballistic missile that was also in used by United Kingdom
• 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.
• UK Polaris programme, a British nuclear weapons programme for Resolution-class ballistic missile submarines

Other uses

• Polaris (convention)
• POLARIS (laser), femtosecond laser at Helmholtz Institute Jena
• Polaris (nonprofit), the American anti-human-trafficking organization
• POLARIS (seismology)
• Polaris, a subsidiary of Maker Studios
• Polaris spacecraft, or TecSAR, Israeli reconnaissance satellite
• Polaris, upcoming United Airlines business class product.

See also

• Polara (disambiguation)
• Polari
• All pages beginning with "Polaris"
• All pages with titles containing Polaris