Arctic Archipelago


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all the islands that lie to the north of mainland Canada and the Arctic Circle

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The project will see the construction of an approximately 1,700km submarine cable from Nuuk, Greeenland to Iqaluit, another territory in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, going through the Davis Strait.
They faced freezing temperatures, open patches of water in the sea ice, as well as the constant threat of polar bears during their adventure which started on April 15 when the team departed the remote Arctic archipelago of Svalbard.
Many countries, and particularly the United States do not recognize Canada's claim to sovereignty over the Northwest Passage and the lands and waters of the Arctic Archipelago that were transferred to Canada by a British Imperial Order-in-Council in 1880.
The type genus, Poraspis, has a wide geographic distribution having been reported from Spitsbergen, eastern and western Europe as well as Canada's District of Mackenzie and Arctic Archipelago, and the western United States (see Elliott & Petriello 2011 and references therein).
JUNE: POLAR BEARS IN SVALBARD SPRING ice melt allows expedition ships to get further around this Arctic archipelago in search of bears on sea ice.
Fearing starvation, she takes things into her own hands and travels back to Earth to access the Svalbard Seed Vault on a remote Norwegian arctic archipelago. Her efforts to gain precious crop seeds unravel however after her ship crashes off course on a nearby glacier known as Spitsbergen.
Summary: Stockholm [Sweden], Oct 27 (ANI): A Russian helicopter, carrying eight people, crashed off the coast of Arctic archipelago, Svalbard, 800 kilometers north of Norway's mainland.
Norwegian rescuers searched in vain on Thursday for a Russian helicoptermissing at sea with eight people aboard off the coast of the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard.
MOSCOW, Oct 26 (KUNA) -- Russia's emergency department on Thursday announced a helicopter is missing at sea with eight people aboard off the coast of the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard.
Location of such repository is yet to be decided; one option under consideration and approved by county authorities in Arkhangelsk is the Arctic archipelago of Novaya Zemlya.
Nunavut, the eastern half of the Canadian Arctic, includes most of the Arctic Archipelago. The two-million-square-kilometre territory showcases edgy architecture, such as Nakasuk Elementary School, which flows across the horizon like a block of ice with its white fibreglass exterior.
The animals live mostly on the more than 36,000 islands of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, rarely coming south to the mainland to mingle with other subspecies.
The Arctic archipelago Franz Josef Land is part of which country?