''Polar Geography'' is a quarterly

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covering research on the physical and human aspects of the Polar regions of Earth. It is published by

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and was established in 1977. From 1980 to 1994 it was known as ''Polar Geography and Geology''.

History

The journal was established in 1977 with the financial support of the

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and in cooperation with the

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"in an effort to fill part of the gap in the broad area of physical and human geography of the Arctic and Antarctic". Founders included Theodore Shabad (

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), who also became the journal's first editor-in-chief for 11 years, until his death in 1987, and Melvin G. Marcus (

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). Originally the journal was published by Scripta Technica Inc. and later by Bellwether Publishing. It was acquired by Taylor & Francis in 2007. At its inception the journal was named ''Polar Geography'', changed three years afterwards, in 1980, to ''Polar Geography and Geology''. In 1995 the journal's name was changed back to the original one. The journal's aim was to make important

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, Japanese, and West European research on the polar regions available in English. Subsequently, the journal's focus shifted to the north circumpolar region with emphasis on the Russian Arctic, publishing articles dealing with human as well as physical dimensions of Arctic and Subarctic environments.

Editors-in-chief

The following persons have been

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Abstracting and indexing

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