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Snow Hill Island
Snow Hill Island (Isla Cerro Nevado) is an ice-covered island in the James Ross Archipelago, Weddell Sea, at 64°28'S 57°11'W, site of Nordenskjöld's 1902-03 winter station hut and the northernmost emperor penguin colony.
Snow Hill tunnel (London)
Snow Hill tunnel is a short railway tunnel beneath Smithfield Market in central London, opened in 1866 and reopened in 1988 to carry the Thameslink route between Blackfriars and Farringdon.
Snow in Australia
Snow in Australia falls mainly on the Australian Alps between Melbourne and Canberra and the highlands of Tasmania, with declining snow depths since the late 1950s.
Snow in Florida
Snow in Florida is a rare but recurring winter phenomenon, first documented in 1774, falling almost entirely in the Panhandle during Arctic air outbreaks.
Snow Island
Snow Island (Isla Nevada) is an island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, at 62°46'S 61°23'W, with President Head at its east end, ice-free President Head Peninsula, and a vanished chinstrap penguin colony.
Snow leopard
The snow leopard (Panthera uncia) is a large cat living in the high mountains of Central Asia, where it hunts wild sheep and goats on steep, rocky terrain.
Snow line
A snow line is the minimum elevation at which snow lies on the ground or a glacier; on glaciers, it separates bright snow from darker firn or ice.
Snow load
Snow load is the vertical load that accumulated snow and ice impose on a roof or other structure, treated in structural design as a live environmental load.
Snow Miku
Snow Miku is an annual winter festival in Hokkaido, Japan, built around the Vocaloid character Hatsune Miku and held every year since 2010 alongside the Sapporo Snow Festival.
Snow on tha Bluff
Snow on tha Bluff: 2011 American found-footage docudrama by Damon Russell starring Atlanta drug dealer Curtis Snow as himself in the Bluff neighborhood; premiered at Slamdance 2011, released 2012, later referenced by J. Cole's 2020 song of the same name.
Snow Patrol
Snow Patrol: Northern Irish-Scottish rock band formed 1994 in Dundee by Gary Lightbody and Mark McClelland; breakthrough Final Straw (2003), Eyes Open (2006) with Chasing Cars, eight studio albums through The Forest Is the Path (2024).
Snow pea
Snow pea (Pisum sativum var. saccharatum), also called sugar pea or mange-tout, is an edible-podded pea with flat pods picked before seeds fill, eaten whole in Chinese stir-fries; a cool-season crop storing at 0 degrees C for up to 2 weeks.
Snow Phipps
Snow Phipps is a New York private equity firm making controlling investments in middle-market North American companies, co-founded by Ian Snow and Ogden Phipps in 2005.
Snow pole
A snow pole is a tall, marked post installed along the roadside in snowy regions so the road edge stays visible during snowfall, guiding drivers and snow removal.
Snow polo
Snow polo is a winter variant of polo played on compacted snow or frozen lakes, using a larger inflatable ball; its flagship event is the Snow Polo World Cup St. Moritz, first held in 1985.
Snow Ruyi (雪如意) (Zhangjiakou ski jumping hills)
Snow Ruyi (雪如意), the National Ski Jumping Centre in Chongli, Zhangjiakou, China, hosted ski jumping and Nordic combined at Beijing 2022 and is named for its resemblance to a Ruyi sceptre.
Snow squall
A snow squall is an intense but brief period of heavy snow and gusty winds that can turn clear skies to whiteout in minutes and cause highway pileups.
Snow Strippers
Snow Strippers: American electronic duo of vocalist Tatiana Schwaninger and producer Graham Perez, formed in Detroit in 2021. Fuses electropop, EDM, witch house, and electroclash; known for April Mixtape 3, Night Killaz EPs, Lil Uzi Vert collaborations, and indie sleaze aesthetics.
Snow sublimation
Snow sublimation is the direct transfer of water from snow to the atmosphere as vapor, without melting; it can remove 10 to 90% of snowfall.
Snow Tha Product
Snow Tha Product (Claudia Alexandra Madriz Meza, born 1987) is a Mexican-American bilingual rapper from San Jose known for rapid-fire English-Spanish flow, the platinum Bizarrap Session Vol. 39, and albums Unorthodox, To Anywhere, and Before I Crashout.
Snow Tower
Snow Tower is a 6,572-foot summit in the Coast Range east of Juneau, Alaska (GNIS 1409827), first climbed June 8, 2015 by William Wacker and Mike Miller via the east face to east ridge.
Snow water equivalent
Snow water equivalent (SWE) is the depth of liquid water that would result if a column of snowpack melted completely. It predicts spring runoff in the western United States.
Snow White
Snow White (German: Schneewittchen) is Grimm tale no. 53, first published 1812 as Sneewittchen, about a princess poisoned by her jealous stepmother. Famous from Disney's 1937 debut feature and Disney's 2025 live-action remake.
Snow White (1933 film)
Snow-White (1933) is a Fleischer Studios Betty Boop cartoon short directed by Dave Fleischer, released March 31, 1933, famous for Cab Calloway's rotoscoped "St. James Infirmary Blues" sequence, inducted into the National Film Registry in 1994, and now in the public domain.
Snow White (2025 film)
Snow White (2025) is Disney's live-action musical remake of the 1937 animated classic, directed by Marc Webb, starring Rachel Zegler, Gal Gadot, and Andrew Burnap, with songs by Pasek and Paul; it opened to $43 million against a $270 million budget.
Snow White (Disney character)
Snow White is Disney's princess heroine of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), the first American feature-length animated film, voiced by Adriana Caselotti and adapted from the Grimm tale Sneewittchen.
Snow White and the Huntsman
Snow White and the Huntsman is a 2012 Universal fantasy film, Rupert Sanders's directorial debut, starring Kristen Stewart, Charlize Theron, and Chris Hemsworth. Made for $170 million, it grossed about $396.6 million worldwide and scored 48% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) is Disney's first animated feature, premiered December 21, 1937 at the Carthay Circle Theater, directed by David Hand, costing about $1.5 million and grossing $8 million, with an honorary seven-dwarf Oscar.
Snow White and the Three Stooges
Snow White and the Three Stooges is a 1961 20th Century-Fox fantasy comedy, also called Snow White & The Three Stooges, directed by Walter Lang, replacing the Seven Dwarfs with Moe, Larry, and Curly Joe and starring Olympic skater Carol Heiss; it flopped.
Snow White with the Red Hair
Snow White with the Red Hair (Akagami no Shirayukihime) is Sorata Akiduki's Hakusensha shojo fantasy romance manga, serialized since 2007 in LaLa DX then LaLa, 27 volumes, 8 million copies, adapted by Bones into a 2015–2016 anime.