ARCTIC REGION
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JAPAN
North Pacific Ocean
Kodiak Bethel 60
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Bering Sea
Sakhalin
Sea of Okhotsk
Khabarovsk
Amur
Gulf of Alaska
Provideniya Anchorage Valdez Nome
Bering Strait
Anadyr'
Arctic
Magadan
lym Ko a
Okhotsk
Juneau Whitehorse Dawson
120
Pea ce
UNITED STATES
Riv er
Circle
Fairbanks
Yuk on
Chukchi Sea
70
Pevek
Wrangel Island
Cherskiy
Oymyakon
Aldan
CHINA
Watson Lake
Macken
R iver
Yakutsk
zie
River
Barrow average minimum Prudhoe extent of sea ice Bay Inuvik
East Siberian Sea
120
Verkhoyansk
y lyu Vi
na Le
Hay River Echo Bay Yellowknife
Great Bear Lake
Beaufort Sea
NEW SIBERIAN ISLANDS
Tiksi
Len a
Lake Athabasca
Great Slave Lake
Banks Island
80
Laptev Sea
Cambridge Bay
Victoria Island
QUEEN
Arctic Ocean
North Pole
SEVERNAYA ZEMLYA
10˚C (50˚F) isotherm, July
CANADA
90 W
ELIZABETH
ISLANDS
Ellesmere Island
Kangiqcliniq (Rankin Inlet)
RUSSIA
Noril'sk
Yenisey
Kaujuitoq (Resolute)
90 E
Repulse Bay
Hudson Bay
Baffin Island Iqaluit (Frobisher Bay)
Alert Qaanaaq (Thule)
FRANZ JOSEF LAND
Kara Sea
Dikson
Baffin Bay
Nord
80
NOVAYA ZEMLYA
Longyearbyen
Svalbard (NORWAY)
Ob'
Davis Strait
Nuuk (Godthåb)
Tasiilaq (Ammassalik) Narsarsuaq
Greenland
(DENMARK)
Kangerlussuaq (Søndre Strømfjord)
Barents Sea
Pechor a
60
Paamiut (Frederikshåb)
Murmansk
Jan Mayen
(NORWAY)
Vy ch eg da
Itseqqortoormiit (Scoresbysund)
Greenland Sea
Bjørnøya
(NORWAY)
70
Ob '
Irty sh
Perm'
Kam a
60
Tromsø
Arkhangel'sk
ev S
Denmark Strait
ICELAND
Arctic
Lake Onega
Sukh ona 60
Labrador Sea
Norwegian Sea
Circle
e r n aya Dvina
Kazan' Samara Nizhniy Novgorod
Volga
Reykjavík
NORWAY
Faroe Islands
(DENMARK)
FINLAND SWEDEN
North Atlantic Ocean
Scale 1:39,000,000
Azimuthal Equal-Area Projection
0 0 500 Kilometers 500 Miles
Helsinki
Tallinn EST.
Lake Ladoga St. Petersburg
KAZ.
Tórshavn
Moscow Saratov
Don
SHETLAND ISLANDS
Oslo
Stockholm
50
LATVIA
The Arctic region is often defined as that area where the average temperature for the warmest month is below 10ºC.
30
Belfast Dublin
IRE.
North Sea
Copenhagen
DENMARK
Riga Vilnius Minsk LITH. Baltic Sea RUS. BELARUS
Dnieper
Volgograd
Kharkiv
Rostov
Warsaw
POLAND
Kiev
U.K. 0
Berlin
GERMANY
UKRAINE
30
Black Sea
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