]> Sea Kara Bay Bay A r c t i c Beaufort Laptev Barents Sea Greenland Baffin Hudson Sea Sea Sea Sea of Okhotsk Lake Lake Great Bear Great Slave Sea Baltic Black Sea Sea Bering Strait Chukchi average minimum extent of sea ice n e L a a m y l o K n a d l A y u y l i V n o k u Y a n e L r e v i R y e s i n e Y Lake Lake Ladoga Onega a g l o V v i R r e n e k c a M e i z North Sea East Siberian N o r t h P a c i f i c Lake Athabasca 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 Labrador Sea Norwegian Sea c e P a r o h ' b O ' b O h s y t r I m a K a n o D r e p e i n D Sea r u m A Alaska Gulf of e c a e P e r v R i h k u S a n o Dvina g e h c y V a d S e v e r n a y a R U S S I A C A N A D A U.K. IRE. ICELAND NORWAY SWEDEN FINLAND LATVIA LITH. BELARUS UKRAINE POLAND DENMARK GERMANY EST. KAZ. JAPAN (DENMARK) Greenland (NORWAY) Svalbard (NORWAY) (NORWAY) CHINA UNITED STATES Faroe Islands 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 Nizhniy Novgorod Kazan' Perm' Whitehorse Yellowknife Echo Bay Nome Bay Prudhoe Fairbanks Alert Nord Tasiilaq Kangerlussuaq (Ammassalik) Okhotsk Oymyakon Verkhoyansk BjĂžrnĂžya Tiksi Moscow Tallinn Vilnius Qaanaaq (Thule) Kaujuitoq (Resolute) Cambridge Bay (Frobisher Bay) Iqaluit Kangiqcliniq (Rankin Inlet) Narsarsuaq (FrederikshĂ„b) Itseqqortoormiit (Scoresbysund) Noril'sk Dikson Lake Watson Hay River Rostov Volgograd Saratov Samara Yakutsk Helsinki Oslo Riga Kharkiv Kiev Minsk Warsaw Berlin Copenhagen Kodiak Bethel Valdez Pevek Repulse Bay TromsĂž (SĂžndre StrĂžmfjord) ReykjavĂ­k Nuuk (GodthĂ„b) Stockholm TĂłrshavn Paamiut Longyearbyen Murmansk Sakhalin administered by Russia, claimed by Japan. K U R I L I S L A N D S A L E U T I A N I S L A N D S occupied by the Soviet Union in 1945, Kamchatskiy Petropavlovsk- Island Wrangel NOVAYA ZEMLYA FRANZ JOSEF LAND SEVERNAYA ZEMLYA NEW SIBERIAN ISLANDS Ellesmere Island ISLANDS QUEEN ELIZABETH Banks Island Victoria Island SHETLAND ISLANDS Baffin Island e l c r i C c i t c r A 30 30 0 6 0 7 60 0 5 e l c r i C c i t c r A 150 120 180 150 120 60 North Pole 0 8 90 E 90 W 0 0 8 0 7 0 6 0 5 0 0 500 Kilometers Azimuthal Equal-Area Projection 500 Miles average temperature for the warmest month is below 10ÂșC. The Arctic region is often defined as that area where the ARCTIC REGION Scale 1:39,000,000 802916AI (R02112) 6-02