1.   Aside from the occasional polar explorer, Santa has seen little interest in his turf by outsiders.

2.   A Bostonian with good words for Wellington was Admiral Richard E. Byrd, the renowned polar explorer who was hot for the cold.

3.   He had been hoping to follow in the footsteps of his father as a polar explorer.

4.   In fact, polar explorer Robert Bartlett and the Flying Wallendas acrobatic troupe were the only nontraditional athletes ever to have appeared.

5.   Shackleton was a celebrated polar explorer determined to lead the first expedition to cross Antarctica on foot.

6.   Their engravings offered a worthy enough paean to the fallen polar explorers, but far more eloquent was a modest handmade memorial.

7.   Past winners include aviator Amelia Earhart, underwater explorer Jacques Cousteau and polar explorer Robert E. Peary.

8.   Hillary, who has also climbed Mount Everest, is the son of Everest conqueror and polar explorer Sir Edmund Hillary.

9.   Polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott left from Christchurch on his ill-fated last mission to the South Pole.

10.   Two polar explorers who were stranded on an Antarctic ice shelf for two days have been airlifted to McMurdo Station where they were quickly snowed in again.