a. [f. TRANS- 3 + L. polus pole + -AR1: cf. polar.] Crossing the (north) pole or polar region.

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1850.  Scoresby, Cheever’s Whalem. Adv., i. (1855), 3. Daring adventures after a north-east or transpolar route to India.

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1900.  Scribner’s Mag., Sept., 296/1. That branch which passed by a transpolar migration … from Siberia into Greenland.

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