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Geographic Locations > Arctic Regions

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Arctic Regions  

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Definition

  • The Arctic Ocean and the lands in it and adjacent to it. It includes Point Barrow, Alaska, most of the Franklin District in Canada, two thirds of Greenland, Svalbard, Franz Josef Land, Lapland, Novaya Zemlya, and Northern Siberia. (Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p66)

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-K7RLVM1K-M

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