Polar Geography

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The journal was established in 1977 with the financial support of the National Science Foundation and in cooperation with the American Geographical Society "in an effort to fill part of the gap in the broad area of physical and human geography of the Arctic and Antarctic".{{cite journal |last1=Shabad |first1=Theodore |title=Editor's introduction |journal= Polar Geography |volume=1 |issue=1 |pages=ii–iii |doi=10.1080/10889377709388607 |year= 1977}}

Founders included Theodore Shabad (Columbia University), who also became the journal's first editor-in-chief for 11 years, until his death in 1987,{{cite journal |last1=Barr |first1= William |title=Theodore Shabad: 1922–1987 |journal= Polar Geography and Geology |volume=11 |issue=3 |pages=162–163 |doi=10.1080/10889378709377324 |year= 1987}}{{cite news |title=Theodore Shabad, a Times editor and a geographer, is dead at 65 |first=Dennis |last=Hevesi |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/05/06/obituaries/theodore-shabad-a-times-editor-and-a-geographer-is-dead-at-65.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=May 6, 1987 |access-date=Dec 18, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141218162559/http://www.nytimes.com/1987/05/06/obituaries/theodore-shabad-a-times-editor-and-a-geographer-is-dead-at-65.html |archive-date=December 18, 2014 |url-status=live}} and Melvin G. Marcus (Arizona State University).{{cite journal |title=Melvin G. Marcus April 13, 1929–March 2, 1997 |journal= Polar Geography |volume=20 |issue=3 |pages=161–162 |doi=10.1080/10889379609377597 |year= 1996}}

Originally the journal was published by Scripta Technica Inc.{{cite news |title=Letter in bottle recalls lost chapter in Arctic exploration |first=Theodore |last=Shabad |newspaper=The New York Times |date=April 6, 1981 |page=8, Section A}} and later by Bellwether Publishing. It was acquired by Taylor & Francis in 2007.{{cite web |url=http://www.bellpub.com/pgg/index.html |title=Polar Geography |publisher=Bellwether Publishing |access-date=Feb 20, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080309095506/http://www.bellpub.com/pgg/index.html |archive-date=2008-03-09 |url-status=live}} 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.{{cite book |editor1-first=Noel |editor1-last=Castree |editor2-first=Alisdair |editor2-last=Rogers |editor3-first=Rob |editor3-last=Kitchin |title=A Dictionary of Human Geography |date=2013 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=United Kingdom |isbn=978-0-19-959986-8 |page=574}}

The journal's aim was to make important Soviet, 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.{{cite web |url=http://bellpub.com/pgg/index.html |title=Polar Geography |year=2002 |publisher=Bellwether Publishing |access-date= Feb 20, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020806073244/http://bellpub.com/pgg/index.html |archive-date= 2002-08-06 |url-status=dead}}

The following persons have been editor-in-chief:

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• 1977 - 1979: Theodore Shabad, (Columbia University)
• 1980 - 1983: Theodore Shabad and John T. Andrews (University of Colorado)
• 1983 - 1988: Theodore Shabad, William Barr (University of Saskatchewan)
• 1988 - 1993: William Barr, Harley J. Walker (Louisiana State University)
• 1994 (Vol 18, Issue 1): William Barr, Roger G. Barry (University of Colorado), Harley J. Walker
• 1994: Roger G. Barry, Harley J. Walker
• 1995 - 1998: Harald Finkler (Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, Canada), Gail Fondhal, Kevin Hall, Greg Poelzer (latter three: University of Northern British Columbia)
• 1999 (Volume 23, Issue 1): Kees van der Veen (Byrd Polar Research Center, Ohio State University)
• 1999 (Volume 23, Issue 2): Harald Finkler, Gail Fondhal, Kevin Hall, Greg Poelzer
• 1999 - 2005: Kees van der Veen
• 2006: (No issues published)
• 2007 - 2008: David R. Yesner (University of Alaska Anchorage)
• 2009 - 2011: Mark Carper (Northeastern State University)
• 2012 - 2015t: Tim Heleniak (Department of Geography, George Washington University)
• 2016 - present: Jessica Graybill (Department of Geography and Russian and Eurasian Studies Program, Colgate University)

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The journal is abstracted and indexed in ProQuest.{{cite web |url=https://www.proquest.com/assets/downloads/titlelists/databases/titlelist_oceanic.xls |title= ProQuest journal listings |access-date=Feb 20, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130511102645/http://www.proquest.com/assets/downloads/titlelists/databases/titlelist_oceanic.xls |archive-date=2013-05-11 |url-status=live}}

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