sea ice extentsummer average

2000-2006

60

60

60

30 30

50

40

50

40

70

70

80

80

0

60

90E90 W

120120

150150 180

Arctic Circle

Arctic Circle

HudsonBay

Great SlaveLakeLake

Athabasca

Great BearLake

BaffinBay

ChukchiSea

Davis Strait

B er i n g S ea

Barents Sea

Ob’

Ob’

NorwegianSea

GreenlandSea

KaraSea

EastSiberian

Sea

BalticSea

LakeOnega

LakeLadoga

A r c t i cO c e a n

BeaufortSea

White Sea

Sea ofAzov

BristolBay

LabradorSea

TatarStrait

Sea ofJapan

BeringStrait

Black Sea

Denmark Strait

Gulf ofAlaska

LaptevSea

ZalivShelikhova

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

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

Sea ofOkhotsk

NorthSea

Lena Vilyuy

Yenisey

Lena

Aldan

Amur

Irtys

h

Dvina

Vych

egda

Severnaya

Sukh

ona Kam

aVo

lga

Dneiper

Don

Pechora

Yuko

n Ri

ver

Mackenzie River

River

Peace

Kolyma

C A N A D A

C H I N A

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 LE U

T IA N

I S L

A N DS K U

R I L I S

L A N D S

Alert

Arviat

CambridgeBay

Churchill

Dawson

Juneau

FortMcMurray

FortNelson

GjoaHaven

Inuvik

Iqaluit

Kuujjuaq

PondInlet

PrinceGeorge

RankinInlet

RepulseBay

Resolute

Whitehorse

Yellowknife

Ilulissat(Jakobshavn)

Ittoqqorttoormiit(Scoresbysund)

Nord

Nuuk(Godthåb)

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

Reykjavík

Tallinn

Brussels

Minsk

Kyiv

Berlin

Copenhagen

Dublin

Vilnius

Stockholm

Moscow

Amsterdam

Oslo

London

Warsaw

Prague

Helsinki

Tórshavn

Longyearbyen

Riga¯

Chişinau(

0 500 Kilometers

0 500 Miles

Scale 1:39,000,000

Lambert Azimuthal Equal-Area Projection

ARCTIC REGION

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