World Map - Arctic

1. Sea
Kara
Bay
Bay
A r c t i c
Beaufort
Laptev
Barents Sea
Greenland
Baffin
Hudson
Sea
Sea
Sea
Sea of
Okhotsk
Lake
Lake
Great Bear
Great Slave
Sea
Baltic
Black Sea
Sea
Bering
Strait
Chukchi
average minimum
extent of sea ice
Lena
Koly ma
Aldan
Vilyuy
Yu k o n
Lena
River
Ye n i s ey
Lake
Lake
Ladoga
Onega
Volga
River
Mackenzie
North
Sea
East
Siberian
N o r t h P a c i f i c
Lake
Athabasca
O c e a n
Bering Sea
O c e a n
Denmark Strait
Davis Strait
N o r t h A t l a n t i c O c e a n
Labrador
Sea
Norwegian
Sea
Pechora
Ob'
Ob'
Irtysh
Kama
Don
Dnieper
Sea
Amur
Alaska
Gulf of
Peace
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Sukhona
Dvina
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R U S S I AC A N A D A
U.K.IRE.
ICELAND
NORWAY
SWEDEN
FINLAND
LATVIA
LITH.
BELARUS
UKRAINE
POLAND
DENMARK
GERMANY
EST.
KAZ.
JAPAN
(DENMARK)
Greenland
(NORWAY)
Svalbard
(NORWAY)
(NORWAY)
CHINA
UNITED STATES
Faroe
Islands
Jan Mayen
RUS.
(DENMARK)
10˚C (50˚F) isotherm,
July
Belfast
Dublin
Juneau
Anchorage
Dawson
Inuvik
Barrow
ProvideniyaAnadyr'
Cherskiy
Arkhangel'sk
St. Petersburg
Magadan
Khabarovsk
Nizhniy
Novgorod
Kazan'
Perm'
Whitehorse
Yellowknife
Echo Bay
Nome
Bay
Prudhoe
Fairbanks
Alert
Nord
Tasiilaq
Kangerlussuaq
(Ammassalik)
Okhotsk
Oymyakon
Verkhoyansk
Bjørnøya
Tiksi
Moscow
Tallinn
Vilnius
Qaanaaq
(Thule)
Kaujuitoq
(Resolute)
Cambridge
Bay
(Frobisher Bay)
Iqaluit
Kangiqcliniq
(Rankin Inlet)
Narsarsuaq
(Frederikshåb)
Itseqqortoormiit
(Scoresbysund)
Noril'sk
Dikson
Lake
Watson
Hay
River
Rostov
Volgograd
Saratov
Samara
Yakutsk
Helsinki
Oslo
Riga
Kharkiv
Kiev
Minsk
Warsaw
Berlin
Copenhagen
Kodiak
Bethel
Valdez
Pevek
Repulse Bay
Tromsø
(Søndre Strømfjord)
Reykjavík
Nuuk
(Godthåb)
Stockholm
Tórshavn
Paamiut
Longyearbyen
Murmansk
Sakhalin
administered by Russia, claimed by Japan.
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occupied by the Soviet Union in 1945,
Kamchatskiy
Petropavlovsk-
Island
Wrangel
N O VAYA
ZEMLYA
FRANZ
JOSEF
LAND
SEVERNAYA
ZEMLYA
NEW
SIBERIAN
ISLANDS
Ellesmere
Island
ISLANDS
QUEEN
ELIZABETH
Banks
Island
Victoria
Island
SHETLAND
ISLANDS
Baffin
Island
Circle
Arctic
30
30
60
70
60
50
Circle
Arctic
150
120
180
150
120
60
North
Pole
80
90 E90 W
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80
70
60
50
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500 Kilometers
Azimuthal Equal-Area Projection
500 Miles
average temperature for the warmest month is below 10ºC.
The Arctic region is often defined as that area where the
ARCTIC REGION
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