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Hace 3 días · Arctic, northernmost region of Earth, centered on the North Pole and characterized by distinctively polar conditions of climate, plant and animal life, and other physical features. The term is derived from the Greek word arktos (‘bear’), referring to the northern constellation of the Bear.
- Political and Environmental Issues
Arctic - Climate Change, Pollution, Wildlife: The eight...
- Climate
Arctic - Polar, Tundra, Climate: The climates of polar lands...
- The Economy
Arctic - Resources, Shipping, Tourism: The Arctic has been...
- The People
Arctic - Indigenous, Inuit, Sami: The Arctic, or...
- Transportation
Arctic - Shipping, Railways, Airplanes: Because the Arctic...
- Traditional Culture
Arctic - Indigenous, Wildlife, Climate: With the exception...
- Political and Environmental Issues
Hace 5 días · In particular, the presence of ice cover and sea ice makes the North Pole and the South Pole colder than they would have been without it. Consequently, recent Arctic sea ice decline is one of the primary factors behind the Arctic warming nearly four times faster than the global average since 1979 (the year when continuous satellite ...
Hace 1 día · Nansen first began to consider the possibility of reaching the North Pole after reading meteorologist Henrik Mohn's theory on transpolar drift in 1884. Artefacts found on the coast of Greenland were identified to have come from the Jeannette expedition .
- Norwegian
- 5, including Odd Nansen
- 10 October 1861, Store Frøen, Christiania, Norway
- Royal Frederick University
Hace 2 días · Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton CVO OBE FRGS FRSGS (15 February 1874 – 5 January 1922) was an Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic. He was one of the principal figures of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration . Born in Kilkea, County Kildare, Ireland, Shackleton and his Anglo ...
Hace 5 días · Planet Uranus – North Pole – Cyclone (VLA; October 2021) The outermost layer of the Uranian atmosphere is the thermosphere and corona, which has a uniform temperature of around 800 K (527 °C) to 850 K (577 °C).
Hace 3 días · Lying almost concentrically around the South Pole, Antarctica’s name means “opposite to the Arctic.” It would be essentially circular except for the outflaring Antarctic Peninsula , which reaches toward the southern tip of South America (some 600 miles [970 km] away), and for two principal embayments, the Ross Sea and the ...
Hace 3 días · Inuit (/ ˈ ɪ nj u ɪ t / IN-ew-it; Inuktitut: ᐃᓄᐃᑦ 'the people', singular: Inuk, ᐃᓄᒃ, dual: Inuuk, ᐃᓅᒃ; Iñupiaq: Iñuit 'the people'; Greenlandic: Inuit) are a group of culturally and historically similar Indigenous peoples traditionally inhabiting the Arctic and subarctic regions of North America, including Greenland, Labrador, Quebec, Nunavut, the Northwest Territories ...
