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 (1980 video game), an arcade game
  • Polaris (1997 role-playing game)
  • Polaris (2005 role-playing 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
  • Pukguksong-1 (translated as Polaris-1 and also known as KN-11), a North Korean submarine-launched ballistic missile
  • 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
  • , 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
  • , a steamer sunk in 1872 on an Arctic expedition
  • , 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
  • Helion Polaris, a prototype fusion reactor

See also

  • Polestar (disambiguation)
  • Polar (disambiguation)
  • Polara (disambiguation)
  • Polari, a form of cant slang
  • North Star (disambiguation)