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
(as of 1975)
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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
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Labrador
Sea Norwegian
Sea
Pechora
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Alaska
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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)
10C (50F) isotherm,
July
Belfast
Dublin
Juneau
Anchorage
Dawson
Inuvik
Barrow
Provideniya Anadyr'
Cherskiy
Arkhangel'sk
Saint
Petersburg
Magadan
Khabarovsk
Nizhniy
Novgorod
Kazan'
Perm'
Whitehorse
Yellowknife
Echo Bay
Nome
Bay
Prudhoe
Fairbanks
Alert
Nord
Tasiilaq
Kangerlussuaq
Okhotsk
Oymyakon
Verkhoyansk
Bjrnya
Tiksi
Moscow
Tallinn
Vilnius
Qaanaaq
(Thule)
Resolute
Cambridge
Bay
Iqaluit
Rankin Inlet
Narsarsuaq
(Frederikshb)
Ittoqqortoormiit
(Scoresbysund)
Noril'sk
Dikson
Lake
Watson
Hay
River
Rostov
Volgograd
Saratov
Samara
Yakutsk
Helsinki
Oslo
Riga
Kharkiv
Kyiv
Minsk
Warsaw
Berlin
Copenhagen
Kodiak
Bethel
Valdez
Pevek
Repulse Bay
Troms
(Sndre Strmfjord)
Reykjavk
Nuuk
(Godthb)
Stockholm
Trshavn
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
NOVAYA
ZEMLYA
FRANZ
JOSEF
LAND
SEVERNAYA
ZEMLYA
NEW
SIBERIAN
ISLANDS
Ellesmere
Island
ISLANDS
QUEEN
ELIZABETH
Banks
Island
Victoria
Island
SHETLAND
ISLANDS
Baffin
Island
Circle
Arctic
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7
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Circle
Arctic
150
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180 150
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North
Pole
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500 Kilometers
Azimuthal Equal-Area Projection
500 Miles
average temperature for the warmest month is below 10C.
The Arctic region is often defined as that area where the
ARCTIC REGION
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