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Sometimes the islands of the Pacific Ocean are taken to be a special “oceanic” part of the world, Oceania, whose area is usually considered together with Australia. The world ocean is divided by the continents into the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, and Arctic oceans (see Table 3); some ...
SST conditions had relatively high levels of protection in the Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn, the Arctic, and Antarctic Circle (Fig. 5 a), whereas areas with low protection were mostly at the poles and east of New Guinea. SSS was well-protected along the west coast of the United...
Latitude is the measurement of distance north or south of the Equator. It is measured with180 imaginary linesthat form circles around the Earth east-west, parallel to the Equator. These lines are known as parallels. A circle of latitude is an imaginary ring linking all points sharing a parall...
Polar bears live mostly inside the Arctic Circle, in the surrounding areas of the Arctic Ocean and the landmasses around it. They are top of the food-chain predators and are carnivorous. These huge bears hunt for seals and walruses with agile movements from ice floats and also eat carcasses...
experienced the Northern Lights in the Arctic Circle in Finland, stood on a smoking volcano in Nicaragua, floated down the river on a traditional Mekong Delta riverboat in Laos, spent the night with a hill tribe in Thailand, stood too close to wild baboons in Ethiopia, floated in a rowboat...
The centre tries to cooperate with all academic institutions involved with Arctic research and it has signed co-production agreements with Germany, Russia, the United States and Scandinavia. Additionally, the centre hosts International Arctic Studies Centre's Arctic global change programme and the Northe...
NatureHonorary AwardA mother polar bear and a little polar bear stand on a huge ice mountain in Davis Straight in the Arctic Circle in Canada. Compared to the tip of an iceberg, huge animals seem small. Third PrizeAtacama ...
I was fortunate to be invited to speak at an event inIcelandback in 2010. What wasn’t so fortunate was that the event was scheduled for the month of February. Considering Iceland’s proximity to the North Pole (just south of the Arctic Circle) I knew I was in for a colder travel ex...