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ARCTIC REGION 180 150 50 A North Pacific LE U A TI N IS N LA DS R KU PetropavlovskKamchatskiy DS 150 AN IS L IL occupied by the Soviet Union in 1945, administered by Russia, claimed by Japan. JAPAN Bering Sea Sakhalin Ocean Sea of Okhotsk Kodiak Provideniya Bering Strait Anchorage Riv er Fairbanks Chukchi Sea Yuk on Whitehorse Dawson Yakutsk Great Slave Lake na Le NEW SIBERIAN ISLANDS Laptev Sea Arctic Ocean QUEEN Kangiqcliniq (Rankin Inlet) 10˚C (50˚F) isotherm, July SEVERNAYA ZEMLYA ELIZABETH Kaujuitoq (Resolute) North Pole ISLANDS Noril'sk Ellesmere Island Repulse Bay Hudson Bay Qaanaaq (Thule) 80 Nord Svalbard (NORWAY) Longyearbyen Greenland Davis Strait Kangerlussuaq (Søndre Strømfjord) Paamiut (Frederikshåb) Greenland Sea Itseqqortoormiit (Scoresbysund) Murmansk S ev Arctic Tórshavn FINLAND SWEDEN Faroe Islands (DENMARK) Scale 1:39,000,000 Oslo SHETLAND ISLANDS Azimuthal Equal-Area Projection 500 Miles 30 Belfast IRE. Dublin U.K. 0 Helsinki Lake Ladoga St. Petersburg Samara Nizhniy Novgorod Moscow Saratov Tallinn EST. Stockholm North Sea Copenhagen DENMARK Berlin GERMANY Riga Vilnius Minsk LITH. Baltic Sea RUS. BELARUS Kharkiv Dnieper Warsaw POLAND KAZ. 50 Don LATVIA