176°0'0"E 180°0'0" 176°0'0"W 172°0'0"W 168°0'0"W 164°0'0"W 160°0'0"W 156°0'0"W 152°0'0"W 148°0'0"W 144°0'0"W 140°0'0"W 136°0'0"W 132°0'0"W 128°0'0"W Arctic Marine Synthesis: January 2010 Atlas of the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas C a n a d a 72°0'0"N B a s i n A R C T I C O C E A N Wrangel Island Herald Island Hanna C h u k c h i Shoal B e a u f o r t Liverpool Bay S e a Point S e a 70°0'0"N Long Strait Barrow Barrow Herald Peard Smith Shoal Bay Bay Kugmallit Ryrkaypiy Wainwright Harrison Atqasuk Prudhoe Bay Bay Kaktovik Tuktoyaktuk Icy Cape Teshekpuk L. Bay Stefansson Camden Kasegaluk Sound Bay Demarcation Lagoon Bay Point Nuiqsut Deadhorse Mackenzie C Lay U Bay A A S N I . E N S R I T C A a S T A Ledyard a D m U T n E 68°0'0"N ue n Inuvik Amg R S Bay D i A n M Cape Lisburne , g D R S a e R E ll i c v . T l T Vankarem o k I C Point e A n N T z Hope i U e E R S . Kolyuchin Cape Arctic Bay Hope Thompson Anaktuvuk Village Basin No R U S S I A atak Pass Kivalina R. Old Crow Enurmino Noatak Kotzebue Sound Long-tailed Duck 66°0'0"N Clangula hyemalis Chukotka n R. ou Inch Inchoun Kotzebue Noorvik Distribution Peninsula Kobuk R. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Uelen Shishmaref Terrestrial Use Area Mechigmen (Areas used for nesting, foraging, staging, or R. Diomede kuk wintering in southern areas of the map) Enmelen oyu Mechig- K Concentrated Breeding Area5 mensk Bering Strait Brevig 1 6 7 Bay Mission Marine Use Area Provideniya Seward (Areas used for foraging, molting, staging, Anadyr Peninsula Yukon R. or wintering in open water areas) Gulf 1 2 6 8 Chaplino Chirikov Marine Concentration Area 64°0'0"N Basin Koyuk Fairbanks 9 Nome . on R Long-tailed Duck Important Bird Area Gambell Yuk 1 Savoonga Migration (May - June) Tana na R 1 St. Lawrence Island . Migration (September - November) Powooiliak Norton Unalakleet Sources: (1) NOAA. 1988. Bering, Chukchi, and Beaufort seas coastal and ocean zones strategic Bay Sound assessment data atlas; (2) NOAA. 2002. Environmental sensitivity index, version 3.0. NOAA, Seattle, TokWashington; (3) USFWS. 1992–2008. Arctic Coastal Plain aerial breeding pair survey; (4) USFWS. 1992–2006. Eider breeding population survey; (5) USFWS. 1992–2005. Density polygons (based on USFWS Eider breeding population survey and USFWS Arctic Coastal Plain aerial breeding pair survey); (6) Portenko, L.A. 1981. Birds of the Chukchi Peninsula and Wrangel Island (translated from Russian). R Published for the Smithsonian Institution and the National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C. B e r i n g S e a n o Amerind, Springfield, Virginia; (7) Audubon Alaska. 2009. Important Bird Areas. GIS feature class; (8) 62°0'0"N Emmonak k u Y Alexander, S.A., D.L. Dickson, and S.E. Westover. 1997. Spring migration of eiders and other waterbirds in offshore areas of the western Arctic. In King and Common eiders of the western Canadian Arctic. D.L. Dickson, editor. Occasional Paper Number 94. Canadian Wildlife Service, Edmonton, Alberta; (9) 150 75 0 150 300 This map is based on the best available data, which varies in quality across the project area. For more information on BirdLife International. 2009. Important Bird Areas. GIS feature class. Miles data quality and knowledge gaps, see the introduction to the Arctic Marine Synthesis and the description of this map..