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Topographic map of the Arctic ds an Isl n Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky ia ut le A PACIFIC Bering OCEAN Sea Sea of Kamchatka Okhotsk Gulf of Amur Alaska Koryaks r Mts. e v Anadyr Anchorage i R e n g o ains n k ount a u lyma M Juneau a R Y Ko Alask ALASKA Bering r e yma Rive Whitehorse Fairbanks (USA) Kol g Straight n e a Teslin ng R Dawson a y tains R k oun s Chukchi s Yakutsk M k Wrangel e cky o r e g Ro Mackenzie ro Sea h B Barrow Island C n Mountains a Prudhoe Bay East Verkhoyansk R cke a nzie River Inuvik k M Siberian s Sea an Beaufort oy Northwest Territories h r k e Sea er iv Great Bear V R New a Lake S Great Slave Lake Tiksi en B as Yellowknife Siberian L ai k Lake ka a l tc Lake Islands h Canada e Athabasca Basin w Banks a Laptev n Island Central R ARCTIC Sea . CANADA Victoria OCEAN Siberian Island Lake Nunavut Upland Winnipeg Ta Makarov im y Basin r Churchill ge North P Arviat id ge Land e RUSSIAN R id n Resolute a R Rankin Inlet h v in p s FEDERATION l so A o u Norilsk n l Naujat Ellesmere o a m nisey River Hudson Island o AmundsenBasin Ye Alert L e r Bay i v Franz R Foxe b d Qaanaaq Josef N O Basin n Nansen James la Land o West Is Nansen-GakkelBasin Ridge v Yam Bay a al Pe Siberian fin y nin Ungava Hudson af Baffin a su Kara la Strait B Z Plain Peninsula Bay Sea SVALBARD e Salekhard O Québec m b Iqaluit (NORWAY) l R Khanty-Mansiysk y i v e r I a Vorkuta rty Longyearbyen s h Ilulissat Fram Barents Naryan-Mar E Strait L Ural Mountains Davis Sisimiut Sea C Strait Bjørnøya IR GREENLAND C Greenland IC Nuuk (DENMARK) T Sea C K Labrador R a A Syktyvkar m Murmansk a Perm R i Ammassalik Jan Tromsø Kola Arkhangelsk v N. Dvina e Mayen Peninsula White r F Sea I Norwegian N L Lake Sea Y A V Onega o A N l g N a D W Lake R Reykjavik E i v R D Ladoga e r O E Helsinki Moscow FAROE St. Petersburg N Torshavn W ISLANDS S Baltic (DENMARK) Oslo Sea ATLANTIC Stockholm OCEAN North Sea Copenhagen DENMARK CAFF area (Source: CAFFs Arctic Biodiversity Trends 2010: selected indicators of change).

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