Sea Kara Bay Bay A r c t i c Beaufort Laptev Barents Sea Greenland Baffin Hudson Sea Sea Sea Sea of Okhotsk Lake Lake Great Bear Great Slave Sea Baltic Black Sea Sea Bering Strait Chukchi average minimum extent of sea ice (as of 1975) Lena Kolyma Aldan Vilyuy Yukon Lena River Yenis ey Lake Lake Ladoga Onega Volga River Mackenzie North Sea East Siberian N o r t h P a c i f i c Lake Athabasca O c e a n Bering Sea O c e a n Denmark Strait Davis Strait N o r t h A t l a n t i c O c e a n Labrador Sea Norwegian Sea Pechora Ob' Ob' Irtysh Kam a Don Dnieper Sea Amur Alaska Gulf of Peace e r v R i Sukh ona Dvina Vychegda S e v e r n a y a R U S S I A C A N A D A U.K. IRE. ICELAND NORWAY SWEDEN FINLAND LATVIA LITH. BELARUS UKRAINE POLAND DENMARK GERMANY EST. KAZ. JAPAN (DENMARK) Greenland (NORWAY) Svalbard (NORWAY) (NORWAY) CHINA UNITED STATES Faroe Islands Jan Mayen RUS. (DENMARK) 10°C (50°F) isotherm, July Belfast Dublin Juneau Anchorage Dawson Inuvik Barrow Provideniya Anadyr' Cherskiy Arkhangel'sk Saint Petersburg Magadan Khabarovsk Nizhniy Novgorod Kazan' Perm' Whitehorse Yellowknife Echo Bay Nome Bay Prudhoe Fairbanks Alert Nord Tasiilaq Kangerlussuaq Okhotsk Oymyakon Verkhoyansk Bjørnøya Tiksi Moscow Tallinn Vilnius Qaanaaq (Thule) Resolute Cambridge Bay Iqaluit Rankin Inlet Narsarsuaq (Frederikshåb) Ittoqqortoormiit (Scoresbysund) Noril'sk Dikson Lake Watson Hay River Rostov Volgograd Saratov Samara Yakutsk Helsinki Oslo Riga Kharkiv Kyiv Minsk Warsaw Berlin Copenhagen Kodiak Bethel Valdez Pevek Repulse Bay Tro m s ø (Søndre Strømfjord) Reykjavík Nuuk (Godthåb) Stockholm Tórshavn Paamiut Longyearbyen Murmansk Sakhalin administered by Russia, claimed by Japan. K U R I L I S L A N D S A L E U T I A N I S L A N D S occupied by the Soviet Union in 1945, Kamchatskiy Petropavlovsk- Island Wrangel NOVAYA ZEMLYA FRANZ JOSEF LAND SEVERNAYA ZEMLYA NEW SIBERIAN ISLANDS Ellesmere Island ISLANDS QUEEN ELIZABETH Banks Island Victoria Island SHETLAND ISLANDS Baffin Island Circle Arctic 30 30 60 70 60 50 Circle Arctic 150 120 180 150 120 60 North Pole 80 90 E 90 W 0 80 70 60 50 0 0 500 Kilometers Azimuthal Equal-Area Projection 500 Miles average temperature for the warmest month is below 10ºC. The Arcticregion is often defined as that area where the ARCTICREGION Scale 1:39,000,000 803301AI (R02112) 5-07 . temperature for the warmest month is below 10ºC. The Arctic region is often defined as that area where the ARCTIC REGION Scale 1:39,000,000 803301AI (R02112) 5-07. Island Victoria Island SHETLAND ISLANDS Baffin Island Circle Arctic 30 30 60 70 60 50 Circle Arctic 150 120 180 150 120 60 North Pole 80 90 E 90 W 0 80 70