Sea
Kara
Bay
Bay
A r c t i c
Beaufort
Laptev
Barents Sea
Greenland
Baffin
Hudson
Sea
Sea
Sea
Sea ofOkhotsk
Lake
Lake
Great Bear
Great Slave
SeaBaltic
Black Sea
Sea
BeringStrait
Chukchi
average minimumextent of sea ice
Lena
Kolyma
Aldan
Vilyuy
Yuko
n
Lena
Rive
r
Yenisey
Lake
LakeLadoga
Onega
Volga
RiverMackenzie
NorthSea
East Siberian
N o r t h P a c i f i c
LakeAthabasca
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
LabradorSea Norwegian
Sea
Pechora
Ob'
Ob'
Irtysh
Kam
a
Don
Dnieper
Sea
Amur
AlaskaGulf of
Peace
erv
Ri
Sukh
ona
Dvina
Vycheg
da
Severnaya
R U S S I AC A N A D A
U.K.IRE.
ICELANDNORWAY
SWEDEN
FINLAND
LATVIA
LITH.
BELARUS
UKRAINEPOLAND
DENMARK
GERMANY
EST.
KAZ.
JAPAN
(DENMARK)Greenland
(NORWAY)
Svalbard(NORWAY)
(NORWAY)
CHINA
UNITED STATES
FaroeIslands
Jan Mayen
RUS.
(DENMARK)
10˚C (50˚F) isotherm, July
Belfast
Dublin
Juneau
Anchorage
Dawson
Inuvik
Barrow
Provideniya Anadyr'
Cherskiy
Arkhangel'sk
St. Petersburg
Magadan
Khabarovsk
NizhniyNovgorod
Kazan'
Perm'
Whitehorse
Yellowknife
Echo Bay
Nome
BayPrudhoe
Fairbanks
Alert
Nord
Tasiilaq
Kangerlussuaq
(Ammassalik)
Okhotsk
Oymyakon
Verkhoyansk
Bjørnøya
Tiksi
Moscow
Tallinn
Vilnius
Qaanaaq(Thule)
Kaujuitoq(Resolute)
CambridgeBay
(Frobisher Bay)Iqaluit
Kangiqcliniq(Rankin Inlet)
Narsarsuaq
(Frederikshåb)
Itseqqortoormiit(Scoresbysund)
Noril'sk
Dikson
LakeWatson
HayRiver
Rostov
Volgograd
Saratov
Samara
Yakutsk
Helsinki
Oslo
Riga
Kharkiv
Kiev
Minsk
WarsawBerlin
Copenhagen
Kodiak Bethel
Valdez
Pevek
Repulse Bay
Tromsø
(Søndre Strømfjord)
Reykjavík
Nuuk(Godthåb)
StockholmTórshavn
Paamiut
Longyearbyen
Murmansk
Sakhalin
administered by Russia, claimed by Japan.
KU R I L I S L A N D S
A
L EUTIAN
IS L A N DSoccupied by the Soviet Union in 1945,
KamchatskiyPetropavlovsk-
IslandWrangel
NOVAYAZEMLYA
FRANZJOSEFLAND
SEVERNAYAZEMLYA
NEWSIBERIANISLANDS
EllesmereIsland
ISLANDS
QUEEN
ELIZABETH
BanksIsland
VictoriaIsland
SHETLANDISLANDS
BaffinIsland
CircleArctic
3030
60
70
60
50
CircleArctic
150
120
180150
120
60
NorthPole
80
90 E90 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 Arctic region is often defined as that area where the
ARCTIC REGION
Scale 1:39,000,000
802916AI (R02112) 6-02
Top Related