ARCTIC REGION

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180

North Pacific Ocean

Kodiak Bethel 60

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DS 150 AN IS L IL occupied by the Soviet Union in 1945, administered by Russia, claimed by Japan.

JAPAN

Bering Sea
Sakhalin

Sea of Okhotsk

Khabarovsk
Amur

Gulf of Alaska Valdez Juneau Whitehorse Dawson

120
Pea ce

Provideniya Anchorage Nome

Bering Strait

Anadyr'
Arctic

Magadan
lym Ko a

Okhotsk

UNITED STATES
Riv er

Circle

Fairbanks

Yuk on

Chukchi Sea
70

Pevek
Wrangel Island

Cherskiy

Oymyakon

Aldan

CHINA

Watson Lake
Macken zie
River

Yakutsk

Barrow average minimum Prudhoe extent of sea ice Bay Inuvik

East Siberian Sea

120

Verkhoyansk
y lyu Vi
na Le

Lake Athabasca

R iver

Hay River Echo Bay Yellowknife Great Slave Lake

Great Bear Lake

Beaufort Sea
NEW SIBERIAN ISLANDS

Tiksi

Len a

Banks Island

80

Laptev Sea

Cambridge Bay

Victoria Island

QUEEN ELIZABETH ISLANDS

Ellesmere Island Alert Qaanaaq (Thule)

Arctic Ocean
North Pole
SEVERNAYA ZEMLYA

10C (50F) isotherm, July

CANADA
90 W

Kangiqcliniq (Rankin Inlet)

RUSSIA
Noril'sk Dikson
Yenisey

Kaujuitoq (Resolute)

90 E

Repulse Bay

Hudson Bay
Baffin Island Iqaluit (Frobisher Bay)

Baffin Bay

Nord

80
NOVAYA ZEMLYA

Longyearbyen

Svalbard (NORWAY)

Ob'

Davis Strait
Nuuk (Godthb)
Tasiilaq (Ammassalik) Narsarsuaq

Greenland
(DENMARK)
Kangerlussuaq (Sndre Strmfjord)

Barents Sea Greenland Sea

Jan Mayen
(NORWAY)

Pechor a

Bjrnya
(NORWAY)

70

60

Paamiut (Frederikshb)

Murmansk Troms
ev S

Vy ch eg da

Itseqqortoormiit (Scoresbysund)

Ob '

FRANZ JOSEF LAND

Kara Sea

Irty sh

Perm'
Kam a

60

Arkhangel'sk
e r n aya Dvina

Denmark Strait
ICELAND

Arctic

Lake Onega

Sukh ona 60

Labrador Sea

Norwegian Sea
Circle

Kazan' Samara Nizhniy Novgorod

Volga

Reykjavk

NORWAY
Faroe Islands
(DENMARK)

FINLAND SWEDEN

North Atlantic Ocean

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Helsinki
Tallinn EST. Riga Vilnius

Lake Ladoga St. Petersburg

KAZ.

Trshavn

Moscow Saratov
Don

SHETLAND ISLANDS

Oslo

Stockholm

50

LATVIA

Volgograd

The Arctic region is often defined as that area where the average temperature for the warmest month is below 10C.
30

Belfast Dublin
IRE.

North Sea

Copenhagen
DENMARK

LITH. Baltic Sea RUS.

Minsk
BELARUS
Dnipro

Kharkiv

Rostov

Warsaw
POLAND

Kiev

U.K. 0

Berlin
GERMANY

UKRAINE
30

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