ARCTIC REGION 180
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North Pacific
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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
Ocean
Sea of Okhotsk Kodiak
Provideniya Bering Strait
Anchorage
Riv er
Fairbanks
Chukchi Sea
Yuk on
Whitehorse Dawson
Yakutsk
Great Slave Lake
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NEW SIBERIAN ISLANDS
Laptev Sea
Arctic Ocean
QUEEN
Kangiqcliniq (Rankin Inlet)
10˚C (50˚F) isotherm, July SEVERNAYA ZEMLYA
ELIZABETH
Kaujuitoq (Resolute)
North Pole
ISLANDS
Noril'sk
Ellesmere Island
Repulse Bay
Hudson Bay
Qaanaaq (Thule)
80
Nord
Svalbard (NORWAY)
Longyearbyen
Greenland
Davis Strait
Kangerlussuaq (Søndre Strømfjord) Paamiut (Frederikshåb)
Greenland Sea
Itseqqortoormiit (Scoresbysund)
Murmansk S
ev
Arctic
Tórshavn
FINLAND SWEDEN
Faroe Islands (DENMARK)
Scale 1:39,000,000
Oslo
SHETLAND ISLANDS
Azimuthal Equal-Area Projection 500 Miles
30
Belfast IRE.
Dublin
U.K. 0
Helsinki
Lake Ladoga St. Petersburg
Samara Nizhniy Novgorod
Moscow Saratov
Tallinn EST.
Stockholm
North Sea
Copenhagen DENMARK
Berlin GERMANY
Riga Vilnius Minsk LITH. Baltic Sea RUS. BELARUS
Kharkiv Dnieper
Warsaw POLAND
KAZ.
50 Don
LATVIA
500 Kilometers
The Arctic region is often defined as that area where the average temperature for the warmest month is below 10ºC.
Kazan'
Circle
Volga
North Atlantic Ocean
e r n aya Dvina
Lake Onega
NORWAY
60
Perm'
Arkhangel'sk
Norwegian Sea
Reykjavík
0
Pechor a
Tromsø
(NORWAY)
Denmark Strait
Irty sh
(NORWAY)
ICELAND
0
Ob'
70
Bjørnøya
Jan Mayen
Tasiilaq (Ammassalik) Narsarsuaq
Labrador Sea
NOVAYA ZEMLYA
Barents Sea
(DENMARK)
Nuuk (Godthåb)
Kara Sea
FRANZ JOSEF LAND
Baffin Bay
Iqaluit (Frobisher Bay)
90 E
Yenisey
Dikson
Alert
Baffin Island
60
RUSSIA
Ob '
90 W
80
Victoria Island
CANADA
Len a
Tiksi
Banks Island
Cambridge Bay
120
Verkhoyansk
Beaufort Sea
Yellowknife Lake Athabasca
CHINA
Aldan
Vy ch eg da
Echo Bay
Oymyakon
y lyu Vi
R iver
Inuvik Great Bear Lake
Okhotsk
Cherskiy
East Siberian Sea
Barrow average minimum Prudhoe extent of sea ice Bay
River
zie
Wrangel Island
lym Ko
Circle
Sukh ona 60
Macken
Hay River
Pevek
70
Watson Lake
Pea ce
Arctic
UNITED STATES
Juneau
120
a
Nome
Valdez
Magadan
Anadyr'
Kam a
Gulf of Alaska
Khabarovsk Amur
Bethel 60
Kiev
Volgograd
Rostov
UKRAINE 30
Black Sea
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