ARCTIC REGION

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

JAPAN

North Pacific Ocean

Kodiak Bethel 60

LE

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

10C (50F) 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 (Godthb)
Tasiilaq (Ammassalik) Narsarsuaq

Greenland
(DENMARK)
Kangerlussuaq (Sndre Strmfjord)

Barents Sea

Pechor a

60

Paamiut (Frederikshb)

Murmansk
Jan Mayen
(NORWAY)

Vy ch eg da

Itseqqortoormiit (Scoresbysund)

Greenland Sea

Bjrnya
(NORWAY)

70

Ob '
Irty sh

Perm'
Kam a

60

Troms

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

Reykjavk

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.

Trshavn

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 10C.
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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