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	Arctic islands pitch climate tourism - Breaking News - World - Breaking News
		A remote chain of Arctic islands is advertising itself as a showcase of bad things to come from global warming.
		Visitors to Svalbard can see reindeer, seals or polar bears in the Arctic, where UN scientists say warming is happening twice as fast as on the rest of the planet in what may be a portent of changes further south.
		Experts say the Arctic warms faster than the rest of the planet because darker water and land, when exposed by melting ice and snow, soaks up more heat and accelerates the thaw.
	www.smh.com.au /news/World/Arctic-islands-pitch-climate-tourism/2007/05/17/1178995330288.html (789 words)

	North America Arctic Islands
		Composed of Greenland and the adjacent Canadian Arctic islands, this vast area is a largely barren expanse of tundra, icecap, and peaks surrounded by an endless maze of often-frozen waterways.
		The bounaries of the North American Arctic Islands Range2 are clear--it includes Greenland and all islands north of the Canadian mainland and Hudson Bay.
		The western Canadian Arctic Islands (for example, Banks, Victoria, and Melville) are very low and flat, but the eastern edge of this group rises to high, impressive cliffs and summits that border Baffin Bay on Baffin, Bylot, Devon, and Ellesmere Islands.
	www.peakbagger.com /range.aspx?rid=11 (328 words)

	Arctic - MSN Encarta
		The principal geological elements of the Arctic include parts of three ancient landmasses, composed predominantly of granite and gneiss, which are called shields—the Baltic-Scandinavian-Russian Shield, the Angara Shield or Siberian Platform (in north central Siberia), and the Canadian Shield (including all the Canadian Arctic except for the Queen Elizabeth Islands).
		Mountain ranges are in the eastern Arctic region of Canada (notably on Baffin Island), in Yukon Territory, in northern Alaska, in coastal Greenland, in Iceland, and in northeastern Siberia.
		The North Pole is not the coldest spot in the Arctic, because its climate is moderated by the ocean.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761577860/Arctic.html (664 words)

	Arctic Islands (Canada)
		Other islands in the archipelago are Banks Island, Prince of Wales Island[?], Devon Island[?], Prince Patrick Island[?], Melville Island[?], Sverdrup Island[?], Axel Heiberg Island[?], Southampton Island[?] and King William Island[?].
		British claims on the islands were based on the explorations in the 1570's by Martin Frobisher.
		In addition, Canada claims the water between the Arctic Islands as internal waters, a claim that is not recognized by the United States, and which has cause some conflict with respect to the enforcement of environmental laws.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ar/Arctic_islands_(Canada).html (206 words)

	Canadian Arctic islands:
		It is bounded on the west by the Beaufort Sea; on the north by the Arctic Ocean; on the east by Greenland, Baffin Bay and Davis Strait; and on the south by Hudson Bay and the Canadian mainland.
		The climate of the islands is arctic, and the terrain consists of tundra except in mountainous areas.
		Most of the islands are uninhabited; human settlement is extremely thin and scattered, being mainly coastal Inuit settlements on the southern islands.
	www.winelib.com /wiki/Canadian_Arctic_islands (356 words)

	Svalbard Sea Kayaking Tours
		These islands first referred to in an Icelandic saga from 1130 AD are now a Norwegian territory and much of the area is maintained as ecological reserve similar to Antarctica.
		Comfortable accommodation is aboard a modern Arctic outfitted mothership that provides a vehicle for exploring more of the islands as well as a viewing platform for wildlife and sights (camping ashore is restricted to minimize environmental impact not to mention the significant risk posed by the numerous polar bears).
		These arctic islands are an unrivaled paddling experience in a starkly beautiful land alive with wildlife and steeped in history.
	www.force-ten.com /Tofino/svalvard-intro.htm (207 words)

	Jack's Arctic Page
		A territory of northern Canada including the Arctic Archipelago, islands in the northern Hudson Bay, and the mainland north of latitude 60° north and consists of 33% of all the land area in Canada.
		Summers in the Arctic Islands and along the continental coast are relatively cool (July average, 4.4› C/40› F) in contrast to the warm temperatures of the Mackenzie Valley and much of the mainland (July average, 15.6› C/60› F).
		Settlements on the Arctic coast and in the Arctic Islands receive most supplies in a summer supply visit by ships from the south, which are often escorted by icebreakers.
	www.croatianmall.com /lupic/arctic (2541 words)

	Arctic wolves
		Arctic wolves (Canis lupus arctos) are a subspecies of grey wolf (Canis lupus arctos) that occur on Canada's arctic islands and the eastern and northern shores of Greenland.
		The land that arctic wolves live on is covered in snow for most of the year with the exception of mid June to August when it melts and can support a variety of small plant and lichen species that are eaten by the animals the wolves prey upon.
		Arctic wolves are most likely to attack and kill lone musk oxen because the defensive ring often formed by groups of musk oxen is very efficient in driving off wolves.
	www.ualberta.ca /~jzgurski/arctic.html (989 words)

	Canadian Arctic islands - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Other islands in the archipelago are Banks Island, Prince of Wales Island, Devon Island, Prince Patrick Island, Melville Island, Sverdrup Island, Axel Heiberg Island, Southampton Island, Somerset Island and King William Island.
		The group of islands is bounded on the west by the Beaufort Sea, on the north by the Arctic Sea, on the east by Greenland, Baffin Bay and Davis Strait, and on the south by Hudson Bay and the mainland of Canada.
		Canada claims sovereignty in a sector continuing to the North Pole, a claim that is not universally recognized.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Canadian_Arctic_islands (226 words)

	Geography of the Arctic - All Things Arctic
		Extending some 7,000 miles from the Aleutian Islands in the west to Greenland and Labrador in the east, it consists of a vast area of permanently frozen ice floating in the middle of the Arctic Ocean and surrounded by continental land masses and islands.
		The major islands are those of the Canadian Archipelago (including Baffin, Banks, Ellesmere, Victoria, Sverdrup, Parry, Prince of Wales, and Axel-Heiberg); the Norwegian island group of Svalbard (including Spitsbergen); and Franz Josef Land, Novaya Zemlya, and the New Siberian Islands, all of which are part of Russia.
		Whether Iceland is placed within, or excluded from, the Arctic depends on the criteria used to define the southern limit of the region.
	www.allthingsarctic.com /geography/index.aspx (693 words)

	Islands of the Arctic Ocean - Wikitravel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The edges of the Arctic Ocean are littered with islands, mostly fragments of the North American, European, and Asian continental masses.
		The largest number of Arctic islands are parts of the Nunavut and Northwest Territories of Canada, and several are part of northern Russia; most of these are barren and uninhabited, and are covered (to the extent that there's anything to say about them) in their respective countries' articles.
		The Faroe Islands are closer to mainland Europe than any of the others (not much further out to sea than the Shetland Islands), but their small size leaves them somewhat more isolated.
	wikitravel.org /en/Islands_of_the_Arctic_Ocean (558 words)

	The Canadian Arctic Islands, an introduction
		The islands are located East of Northern Greenland, at the fringes of the Arctic Ocean, and mark the northern boundary of Canada.
		Axel Heiberg Island at 79-81 degrees latitude has the same size as Switzerland or Holland, rough 300 by 150 km, a population of zero people and a small reseach station, a single simple cabin, near the 10 km wide Thompson Glacier [1] and was built in the 60's by glaciologists of McGill University of Montreal.
		On Ellesmere Island, Eureka, the weather station, and Lake Hazen, the only national park allowed to be visited by tourists, are enclosed by mountain ranges and form a warm oasis with temperatures of 4-8 degrees Celsius in the summer.
	p6.hostingprod.com /@treks.org/a_intro.htm (2665 words)

	Arctic Map (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Conditions typical of Arctic lands are extreme fluctuations between summer and winter temperatures; permanent snow and ice in the high country and grasses, sedges, and low shrubs in the lowlands; and permanently frozen ground (permafrost), the surface layer of which is subject to summer thawing.
		Three major factors are involved: the advantages of the North Pole route as a shortcut between important centres of population, the growing realization of economic potentialities such as mineral (especially petroleum) and forest resources and grazing areas, and the importance of the regions in the study of global meteorology.
		Subsequent touristic has elevated marine beaches and sediments to considerable heights in many parts of the Arctic, where their origin is easily recognized from the presence of marine shells, the skeletons of sea mammals, and driftwood.
	www.geographicguide.com /arctic-map.htm (3745 words)

	Russian Arctic - Severnaya Zemlya
		The islands are mountainous, rising to a height of 965 m at Mt. Karpinski on October Revolution Island.
		Komsomolets Island (top left) contains the largest ice cap of the Russian Arctic — the Academy of Sciences Ice Cap — which covers 5,575 km² of the island in a 819 m thick ice dome that reaches 749 m above sea level.
		Climatic conditions on the islands are severe, with an mean annual temperature of -16 °C. image: MODIS rapid response project at nasa/goddard space flight center.
	www.oceandots.com /arctic/russia/severnaya-zemlya.htm (298 words)

	Arctic Ocean - Russian Arctic
		The islands of the Russian Arctic are located within a vast region, wholly located within the Arctic Circle, stretching from the Arctic coast of European Russia in the west and along the northern coasts of central and far-eastern Siberia in the east — from the Barents Sea to the Chukchi Sea.
		Their low salinities and high latitudes mean that these arctic marginal seas are often the first to freeze as winter approaches and can remain frozen deep in to the brief Arctic summer — particularly in the east.
		There are also numerous small islands and island groups located just off the mainland coast, especially in the region of the Ob-Yenisey estuaries and along the coast of the Taymyr Peninsula.
	www.oceandots.com /arctic/russia (399 words)

	FUN ZONE - Fun Guides
		Arctic coasts, islands, and adjacent sea ice of Eurasia and North America.
		Temperate, subarctic, and arctic waters of the North Atlantic and North Pacific oceans.
		The arctic char is the most northerly species of freshwater fishes.
	www.seaworld.org /fun-zone/fun-guides/arctic/polar-profiles.htm (450 words)

	THE ARCTIC - the land, the people, the wildlife , the communities
		The Arctic is a very cold place in the most northern part of the world.
		In the northern part of the Arctic there are mountains, glaciers (mountains of ice), plains and islands.
		The steep cliffs of the arctic islands are home for murres, and other sea birds.
	www.saskschools.ca /~gregory/arctic/Aintro.html (596 words)

	The Arctic Fox Alopex lagopus
		Arctic Foxes inhabit areas of the Arctic regions of Europe, Asia and North America.
		The male Arctic Fox is about 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 feet long and the length of its tail is about one to two feet long.
		The Arctic Fox is the only member of the canid family that changes the color of its coat in the summer.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/arctic_wildlife/96538 (620 words)

	Quietly, State Dept. Turns Over American Islands to Russia, Others (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Arctic islands, which lie west of Alaska and north of Siberia, include the islands of Wrangell, Herald, Bennett, Jeannette and Henrietta.
		Geographically speaking, the island’s inhabitants would also be citizens of the state of Alaska since no other American state comes even close to the proximity of the islands.
		As is the case with most of the Arctic islands, the economic zones around each of the islands may be more important than the islands themselves.
	www.newsmax.com /articles/?a=2000/5/7/153932 (1195 words)

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		The western islands are lower in elevation, and the only ice masses are on the higher parts of southwestern Melville Island.
		On Axel Heiberg Island, the broad, lobate ice is on the east side, and the outlet valley-type glaciers are on the west (fig.
		The importance of glacier calving and basal-ice melt by the sea under floating glacier tongues in the High Arctic islands is poorly understood.
	pubs.usgs.gov /pp/p1386j/hiarctic/hiarctic.txt (14107 words)

	A-Z Arctic Islands quiz -- free game
		This Canadian island in British Columbia is the northernmost and largest of the Queen Charlotte Islands.
		This is an Alaskan island in Alexander archipelago.
		This Alaskan island is the largest of the Alexander archipelago.
	www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=105417 (331 words)

	VICTORY ADVENTURE EXPEDITIONS Arctic Voyages. Pearls of Russian Arctic.
		During the expedition aboard powerful arctic icebreakers we will have the unique opportunity ones in the firsts to acquaint with beauties of the islands, most of which were inaccessible for visits.
		The мPearls of the Russian Arcticо is our new program aboard the i/b мKapitan Dranitsynо: in 2006 we are up to opening the Arctic lands, which have been closed for visitors for decades.
		Severnaya Zemlya is the vast Arctic Archipelago, and the Russian Hydrographic Expedition to the Arctic Ocean has discovered it at the beginning of the last century.
	www.victory-cruises.com /pearls.html (2244 words)

	Northern Arctic Ecozone
		The Northern Arctic Ecozone is the coldest and driest landscape in the Arctic.
		In contrast to the plateaus and open plains, the vegetation is extremely lush in the wetter areas of the coastal lowlands and in sheltered valleys, as well as on the banks of streams and rivers.
		Peary and Barren-ground caribou, muskox, wolves, arctic and red foxes, polar bears, arctic hares, and brown and collared lemmings are some of the area's inhabitants.
	www.arctic.uoguelph.ca /cpe/environments/land/northarctic/north_arctic.htm (596 words)

	Antarctica cruises. Cruises & holidays to Antarctica & the Arctic. World’s best responsible & ecotourism holidays to ...
		A choice of Antarctica holidays from leading specialist companies who operate with the highest environmental standards to help protect this pristine wilderness environment.
		This is a report sent from Antarctica on February 10th from David McGonigal,currently expedition leader on the Akademik Ioffe.
		Deep in the Southern Ocean, windswept and craggy, lie the Sub Antarctic Islands..
	www.responsibletravel.com /TripSearch/Antarctica_Arctic/Region100002.htm (730 words)

	The Arctic: the ocean, sea ice, icebergs, and climate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Much of the Arctic seasonal variation in ice cover can be found in the Bering Sea (mainly adjacent to the continents, and south to the Aleutian Islands), and in the Sea of Okhotsk, as far south as 42ºN, near Hokkaido, Japan.
		There is some evidence that the Arctic sea-ice cover has decreased about 6% during the last two decades, and that the mean ice thickness has decreased as well.
		The Arctic Basin receives a large amount of fresh water from the large rivers on the surrounding continents (mainly the MacKenzie in Canada and the Ob, the Yenisey and the Lena in Siberia), and during the short summer these freshwater sources spread out over large areas.
	www-das.uwyo.edu /~geerts/cwx/notes/chap17/arctic.html (1595 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Middle Arctic tundra (NA1115)
		This ecoregion is very large, stretching from the Banks Island lowlands in the west to the eastern tip of Baffin Island in the east.
		East of Prince of Wales and Somerset Islands, the terrain is composed mainly of Precambrian granitoid bedrock, and tends to consist of plateaux and rock hills.
		Although the area supports some shrub life (arctic willow (Salix arctica), for example) plant life is characterized by a continuous or discontinuous cover of herb (saxifrage (Saxifraga spp.), Dryas spp.) and lichen-dominated vegetation.
	www.worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/na/na1115_full.html (1083 words)

	Arctic Cruises - Great selection of Arctic cruises. Discounts and last minute deals on Arctic small ship cruises.
		Comfortable expedition vessels glide travelers beyond the Arctic Circle through dramatic ice floes to walk in the footsteps of the Vikings or marvel at the breaching of a humpback whale.
		A trip to the Arctic offers rare wildlife, intense natural beauty and unique cultures that have survived in one of the most extreme environments on Earth.
		During a cruise of the Arctic enjoy the celebrated landscapes of Greenland, Iceland, Canada, Norway, Finland, Russia, Scottish Isles, as well as a trip to the distant and remote North Pole, Svalbard and Norway's volcanic Jan Mayen island.
	www.alvoyages.com /arctic-cruises (773 words)

	Arctic Islands Caribou Hunting
		Description: Caribou are the largest members of the reindeer family (Rangifer tarandus) and are native to the arctic and sub-arctic regions of Siberia, North America and Greenland.
		Caribou were once essential to the survival and livelihood of native peoples of the Arctic.
		Although the Porcupine herd is not considered endangered, in 1987, the United States and Canada finalized a formal agreement for the conservation and management of this group of majestic caribou.
	www.bluewaterbiggame.com /game/north_american_arctic_islands_caribou.cfm (988 words)

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