Geography of the Arctic Regions
Arctic Regions, the area centering on the North Pole and including the Arctic Ocean, its outlying waters and islands, and the northern rims of North America, Europe, and Asia.
See more »The geography of the Artic Regions is quite rugged. The lands are low and flat and were heavily glaciated during the last Ice Age and are dominated by mountains.
Franz Josef Land, (Russian: Zemlya Frantsa Iosifa), a group of about 85 Russian islands in the Arctic Ocean some 800 miles (1,290 km) north of the Russian mainland. See more »
Arctic Regions, the area centering on the North Pole and including the Arctic Ocean, its outlying waters and islands, and the northern rims of North America, Europe, and Asia.
See more »Baffin Bay, a large, deep body of water between Greenland and Canada's Ellesmere, Devon, Bylot, and Baffin islands.
See more »Baffin Island, an island in the Arctic archipelago of Canada and a part of Nunavut.
See more »Ellesmere Island, a large island in the Arctic Ocean off northwestern Greenland. It is part of Nunavut, a Canadian territory.
See more »Franz Josef Land, (Russian: Zemlya Frantsa Iosifa), a group of about 85 Russian islands in the Arctic Ocean some 800 miles (1,290 km) north of the Russian mainland.
See more »Jan Mayen Island, a Norwegian island in the Arctic Ocean. It is 660 miles (1,060 km) west of Tromso, Norway, and 280 miles (450 km) east of Greenland.
See more »Novaya Zemlya, an island group in the Arctic Ocean belonging to Russia and forming part of Archangel Oblast.
See more »Svalbard, the group name for all the Norwegian islands in the Arctic Ocean north of the Norwegian coast.
See more »Arctic Circle, COD22, in geography, an imaginary line running parallel to the Equator and circling the earth at about 66° 33' north latitude.
See more »Davis Strait, a sea passage connecting the Atlantic Ocean to Baffin Bay and separating southern Greenland from Canada's Baffin Island.
See more »Victoria Island, an island in the Arctic Ocean. It belongs to Canada and lies partly in the Northwest Territories and partly in Nunavut.
See more »Wrangel Island, a Russian island in the Arctic Ocean off the northeastern coast of Siberia.
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