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North Pacific Ocean

50

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PetropavlovskKamchatskiy

occupied by the Soviet Union in 1945; administered by Russia; claimed by Japan.

JA PA N

B er ing S ea
Bristol Bay

Sea of Okhotsk

Sea of Japan
Tatar Strait

Khabarovsk
Zaliv Shelikhova

Kodiak Gulf of Alaska Valdez Bethel Nome

Bering Strait

Amur

Provideniya Anadyr'

Magadan Okhotsk
ALDANSKOYE NAGORYE

Anchorage
60

Juneau Prince George Whitehorse

U NITED STATES
Yuk on

ORYE Y E N AG M S KO ma KO LY Koly A rc t i c C i rc l e

Dawson R O C K Y M O U N TA I N S Fort 120 MACKENZIE Nelson

MOUNTAINS
Pea ce

BR

KS

EB YA NSKIY KHR

E NG RA

ET

Fairbanks

Chukchi Sea
Wrangel Island

Riv er

Oymyakon Pevek Cherskiy

Aldan

CHINA

Yakutsk
120

er Mac kenzie Riv

70

Prudhoe Bay

Barrow

Fort McMurray Yellowknife

Lake Athabasca Great Slave Lake

Great Bear Lake

Beaufort Sea

sea ice extent summer average 2000-2006

VE

RK

Le na

Inuvik

East Siberian Sea

Verkhoyansk

Churchill Arviat Rankin 90 W Inlet

ELIZABETH ISLANDS
Ellesmere Island
SO V

RI D GE

Hudson Bay

Alert Pond Inlet

Baffin Island

O M LO

Kuujjuaq

Greenland

Molloy Deep
(deepest point of Arctic Ocean, -5607 m)

(NORWAY)

Svalbard

Ob

Davis Strait
Nuuk (Godthb)

Sisimiut (Holsteinsborg)

Ilulissat (Jakobshavn)

(DENMARK)

Longyearbyen

Barents Sea

Pechor U a

RA

Bjrnya

60

Labrador Sea

Jan Mayen
(NORWAY)

Murmansk
White Sea

Denmark Strait
A rc t i c

C i rc l e

Norwegian Sea
NORWAY FINLAND SWEDEN

Lake Onega Lake Ladoga

Sukho na

Kazan' Samara
Volga

60

Reykjavik

ICELAND Faroe Islands

Nizhniy Novgorod Moscow

Kam a

Qaqortoq (Julianehb)

Tasiilaq

Sev ernaya Dvina

Arkhangel'sk

Vy ch egd a

Ittoqqorttoormiit (Scoresbysund)

Greenland Sea

(NORWAY)

70

U Yekaterinburg N TA IN 60 Perm' S

North Atlantic Ocean

Trshavn

(DENMARK)

Helsinki

Saint Petersburg

Saratov Volgograd

SHETLAND ISLANDS

Oslo

Stockholm Tallinn EST.

LATVIA Riga

Voronezh
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Lambert Azimuthal Equal-Area Projection
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Belfast Dublin
IRE. U.K.

North Sea

Copenhagen DENMARK

Baltic Sea

LITH. Vilnius
RUS.

Minsk
BELARUS

Kharkiv
Dneiper
Sea of Azov

Kaliningrad Warsaw Kyiv

Rostov Krasnodar Sochi

UKRAINE
MOL.

Berlin
Amsterdam
NETH.

POLAND Chisinau
SLOV. REP.

London

GERMANY

Prague
CZECH REP.

Black Sea
30

0 Brussels

BEL.

HUNG.

ROMANIA

40 TURKEY

803400AI (G01486) 6-09

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KAZ.

River

Vil yu
y

Tiksi
NEW SIBERIAN ISLANDS

Len a

Banks Island

80

Cambridge Victoria Island Bay

CANADA
Gjoa Haven Repulse Bay Resolute

QUEEN

Arc t i c Ocean
SEVERNAYA ZEMLYA

Laptev Sea

RUSSIA
Noril'sk
Yenisey
90E

North Pole

Kara Sea
FRANZ JOSEF LAND

Dikson

Qaanaaq (Thule) Nord

Baffin Bay

Ob

80

Iqaluit

NOVAYA ZEMLYA