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90E90 W

120120

150150 180

Arctic Circle

Arctic Circle

HudsonHudsonBayBay

Great SlaveLakeLake

Athabasca

Great BearLake

BaffinBaffinBayBay

ChukchiChukchiSeaSea

Davis StraitDavis Strait

B er i n g S eaB er i n g S ea

Barents Sea

Ob’

Ob’

NorwegianNorwegianSeaSea

GreenlandGreenlandSeaSea

KaraKaraSeaSea

EastEastSiberianSiberian

SeaSea

BalticSea

LakeOnega

LakeLadoga

A r c t i cO c e a n

BeaufortSea

White Sea

Sea ofAzov

BristolBay

LabradorLabradorSeaSea

TatarStrait

Sea ofJapan

BeringStrait

Black SeaBlack Sea

Denmark StraitDenmark Strait

Gulf ofAlaska

LaptevLaptevSeaSea

ZalivShelikhova

N o r t h P a c i f i cN o r t h P a c i f i cO c e a nO c e a n

N o r t h A t l a n t i c O c e a nN o r t h A t l a n t i c O c e a n

Sea ofSea ofOkhotskOkhotsk

NorthNorthSeaSea

Lena Vilyuy

Yenisey

Lena

Aldan

Amur

Irtys

h

Dvina

Vycheg

da

Severnaya

Sukh

ona Kam

aVo

lga

Dneiper

Don

Pechora

Yuko

n Ri

ver

Mackenzie River

River

Peace

Kolyma

C A N A D A

CHINA

G r e e n l a n d( D E N M A R K )

ICELAND

UNITED STATES

ROMANIABEL. CZECH REP.

U K R A I N E

IRE.

FINLAND

SWEDEN

U.K.

SLOV.REP.

RUS.

LATVIA

LITH.

DENMARK

GERMANY

J A PA N

NETH.

BELARUS

POLAND

NORWAY

HUNG.

MOL.

R U S S I A

T U R K E Y

KAZ.

EST.

Svalbard(NORWAY)

Jan Mayen(NORWAY)

FaroeIslands

(DENMARK)

Bjørnøya(NORWAY)

occupied by the Soviet Union in 1945;administered by Russia; claimed by Japan.

WrangelIsland

VictoriaIsland

BanksIsland

EllesmereIsland

BaffinIsland

NEWSIBERIANISLANDS

QUEEN

ELIZABETH

ISLANDSSEVERNAYA

ZEMLYA

NOVAYAZEMLYA

SHETLANDISLANDS

FRANZJOSEFLAND

A L E U T I AN I S L A N D S K U R I L I S L A N D S

MACKENZIEMACKENZIEMOUNTAINSMOUNTAINS

ALEUTIAN TRENCH

KURIL TRENCH

RID

GE

LOMONO

SOV

ROCKY MOUNTAINSROCKY MOUNTAINS

U R A L MO U N TA I N S

VERKHOYA

NS

KIY

KH

REB

ET

KOLYMSKOYE NAGOR’YE

BR

OOKS RANGE

ALDANSKOYENAGOR’YE

MACKENZIEMOUNTAINS

ALEUTIAN TRENCH

KURIL TRENCH

Molloy Deep(deepest point of

Arctic Ocean,-5607 m)

North Pole

LOMONO

SOV

RID

GE

sea ice extent summer average

2000-2006

Alert

Arviat

CambridgeBay

Churchill

Dawson

Juneau

FortMcMurray

FortNelson

GjoaHaven

Inuvik

Iqaluit

Kuujjuaq

PondInlet

PrinceGeorge

RankinInlet

RepulseBay

Resolute

Whitehorse

Yellowknife

Ilulissat(Jakobshavn)

Ittoqqorttoormiit(Scoresbysund)

Nord

Qaanaaq(Thule)

Qaqortoq(Julianehåb)

Sisimiut(Holsteinsborg)

Tasiilaq

Anadyr'

Arkhangel'sk

Cherskiy

Kaliningrad

Kazan'

Khabarovsk

Krasnodar

Magadan

Murmansk

NizhniyNovgorod

Noril'sk

Dikson

Okhotsk

Oymyakon

Perm'

Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy

Pevek

Provideniya

Rostov

SaintPetersburg

Samara

Saratov

Sochi

Tiksi

Verkhoyansk

Volgograd

Voronezh

Yakutsk

Yekaterinburg

Kharkiv

Belfast

Anchorage

Barrow

Bethel

Fairbanks

Kodiak

Nome

PrudhoeBay

Valdez

Reykjavik

Tallinn

Brussels

Minsk

Kyiv

Berlin

Copenhagen

Dublin

Riga

Vilnius

Stockholm

Moscow

Amsterdam

Oslo

ChisinauLondon

Warsaw

Prague

Helsinki

Tórshavn

Longyearbyen

Nuuk(Godthåb)

0 500 Kilometers

0 500 Miles

Scale 1:39,000,000

Lambert Azimuthal Equal-Area Projection

ARCTIC REGION

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