Ursus maritimus (Phipps, 1774)

Ursus maritimus (Phipps, 1774)

English
Polar bear

Portuguese
Urso-polar; Urso-branco

Norwegian
Isbjørn

North Sámi
Jiekŋaguovža

Dutch
IJsbeer

Frisian
Iisbear

German
Eisbär

French
Ours blanc; Ours polaire

Spanish
Oso polar; Oso blanco

Italian
Orso polare; Orso bianco

Polar bear stands at the edge of ice looking at a seal in the water, in: O’Reilly, B. 1818. Greenland, the adjacent seas, and the North-west Passage to the Pacific Ocean, illustrated in a voyage to Davis’s Strait, during the summer of 1817. London, Printed for Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 47, Paternoster-Row. JCB.
A white bear found in the Pacific Ocean near Icy Cape, in: A new, complete, and universal collection of authentic and entertaining voyages and travels to all the various parts of the world, London, 1794. Printed for Alex. Hogg, at the King’s-Arms, No. 16, Paternoster-Row. JCB.

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