its reverse side, while a special millennium edition featured three. Vehicle licence plates in the Northwest Territories in Canada are in the shape of a polar bear, as was the case in Nunavut until 2012; these now display polar bear artwork instead. The polar bear is the mascot of Bowdoin College, Maine; the University of Alaska Fairbanks; and the 1988 Winter Olympics held in Calgary. The Eisbären Berlin hockey team uses a roaring polar bear as their logo, and the Charlotte, North Carolina hockey team the Charlotte Checkers uses a polar bear named Chubby Checker as their mascot. Coca-Cola has used images of the polar bear in its advertising, and Polar Beverages, Nelvana, Bundaberg Rum, Klondike bars, and Fox's Glacier Mints all feature polar bears in their logos. Fiction Polar bears are popular in fiction, particularly in books for children or teenagers. The Polar Bear Son is adapted from a traditional Inuit tale. The animated television series Noah's Island features a polar bear named Noah as the protagonist. Polar bears feature prominently in East (North Child in the UK) by Edith Pattou. The Bear by Raymond Briggs (adapted into an animated short in 1998) is a story of a girl's encounter with a polar bear. The panserbjørne of Philip Pullman's fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials are sapient, dignified, anthropomorphic polar bears. They feature prominently in the 2007 film adaptation of The Golden Compass. The television series Lost features polar bears living on the tropical island setting. The manga and anime series Shirokuma Cafe centers on a polar bear who runs a cafe in Japan. See also Charismatic megafauna Flagship species International Polar Bear Day 2019 mass invasion of Russian polar bears Umbrella species References Bibliography Further reading . External links National Wildlife Federation's Polar Bear Page ARKive — images and movies of the polar bear (Ursus maritimus) Map of polar bear ranges and denning areas in Nunavut from Nunavut Planning Commission BBC Nature: Polar bear news, and video clips from BBC programmes past and present. Photos, facts, videos from Polar Bears International that funds population, preservation, and DNA studies of the polar bear Map: Here's where the polar bears are vanishing Apex predators Pleistocene bears Articles containing video clips Carnivorans of Europe Carnivorans of North America Carnivorans of Asia Holarctic fauna Mammals of the Arctic Marine mammals Mammals described in 1774 Vulnerable animals Vulnerable biota of Europe Vulnerable biota of