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Arctic: Media

northernmost region of the Earth

Videos

Life of polar bear cubs in the Canadian Arctic
Two polar bear cubs playing in the Canadian Arctic.
Video: Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz
Latitude, longitude, and the prime meridian explained
A female polar bear taking her cubs to the sea to search for food in the Canadian...
Video: Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz
Polar bear triplets' first steps into the Arctic
Polar bear cubs leaving their den for the first time.
Video: Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz
See a desperately hungry polar bear hunting for fish due to scarcity of food in the Russian Arctic
With food in short supply, a polar bear hunting for fish in the Russian Arctic.
Video: Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz
Join a climate-change research team collecting samples from the bottom of Greenland's Arctic lakes
Learn how scientists collect lake bed sediment samples in Greenland for investigations...
Video: Courtesy of Northwestern University (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
What would happen if Earth's temperature rose by 2 °C?
Overview of the impact on Earth of an increase in global average temperature.
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

Images

Arctic Ocean
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Svalbard, Norway
Summer landscape on Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Norway.
© erectus/Fotolia
subarctic and Arctic regions
Division of subarctic and Arctic regions showing distribution of permafrost and glaciers.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
mountain peaks, Nunavut, Canada
Mountain peaks (nunataks) projecting through the ice cap on northern Ellesmere Island,...
© Fred Bruemmer
Arctic fox
“White” phase of Arctic fox (Vulpes lagopus) changing to its summer coat
Russ Kinne/Photo Researchers
white-tailed ptarmigan with winter plumage
White-tailed ptarmigan (Lagopus leucurus) with winter plumage.
Kenneth W. Fink—Root Resources/EB inc.
white-tailed ptarmigan with summer plumage
White-tailed ptarmigan (Lagopus leucurus) with brown mottled summer plumage.
C.A. Morgan
musk oxen
Musk oxen (Ovibos moschatus).
Leonard Lee Rue III
Distribution of Arctic peoples
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Sami gathering reindeer
Sami gathering their reindeer prior to the start of the spring migration, near Kautokeino,...
© Bryan and Cherry Alexander
Inuit family
Inuit family from Alaska wearing fur parkas, early 19th century.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-DIG-ppmsc-02276)
sea ice extent
The extent of sea ice expands and contracts with the seasons, reaching a maximum...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Dorset ivory amulet
Stylized ivory amulet from the Dorset culture, found in Labrador or Quebec, Canada.
Courtesy of the Museum of the American Indian, New York City
traditional semisubterranean dwelling of North American Arctic and subarctic peoples
Cross section of a traditional semisubterranean dwelling of North American Arctic...
© Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.; adapted using information from The Field Museum, Chicago
Inupiat shaman's figure.
Kinugumiut Inupiat incised walrus ivory shaman's figure, c. 1890; in the National...
Courtesy of the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, New York
Kuskokwim Yupiit mask
Kuskokwim Yupiit mask depicting a walrus and another creature, c. 1875; in the National...
Courtesy of the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, New York
major Arctic exploration routes
Routes of major Arctic explorations.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Fridtjof Nansen
Norwegian polar explorer Fridtjof Nansen, leader of the Fram expedition.
© Photos.com/Jupiterimages
Robert E. Peary
Robert E. Peary dressed in polar expedition gear aboard the Roosevelt.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Fokker used by Byrd and Bennett in their attempt to fly to the North Pole
The Fokker trimotor airplane used by Richard Byrd and Floyd Bennett in their attempt...
General Photographic Agency/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
tundra on Bathurst Island
Rock-strewn tundra of the barren Arctic lands of Polar Bear Pass on Bathurst Island,...
Brian Milne/First Light
decline in Arctic sea-ice coverage
Sea-ice loss in the Arctic since the end of the 20th century has lowered...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc./Kenny Chmielewski
Arctic map
The average location of the 50 °F July isotherm in the Northern Hemisphere—the climatological...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

Podcasts

“The Incredible Shrinking World of the Polar Bear”
John Rafferty of Encyclopædia Britannica discusses the polar bear, a mammal that...