Encyclopedia of the Arctic, Volume 3"The Encyclopedia of the Arctic offers a rich and dynamic view of, and introduction to, an enormous, incredibly diverse, and rapidly changing part of the world. Its three volumes comprise overviews of hundreds of topics, events, places, people, human cultures, animals, and environments, ranging from geological history, exploration, the cultures and livelihoods of indigenous peoples, geopolitics, international environmental cooperation, natural history, physical processes, life sciences, and environmental change."--Page xxxix. |
Contents
Thematic List of Entries xxiii | 1556 |
Map of Arctic Populations xliii | 1633 |
Map of Arctic Indigenous Peoples xliv | 2158 |
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19th century aboriginal activities Alaska American Arctic Council Arctic Ocean Atlantic Baffin Baffin Island Barents Basin Bering birds breeding Canada Canadian Arctic Chukchi Chukotka Circumpolar climate coast communities Council culture Danish drift East eastern economic ecosystems edited environment environmental Eskimo established expedition exploration fish Further Reading Geographical glaciers global Greenland groups High Arctic hunting Iceland indigenous Inughuit Inuit Island Kamchatka Lake land language layer located mammals marine ment Moscow Museum National Native North America North Pole northern Northern Sea Route Northwest Norway Norwegian Nunavik Nunavut Nuuk obshchinas organization Peninsula permafrost plants polynyas population Press Québec region reindeer River Saami Sahtu Sakha Republic Sakhalin sea ice seals settlement shaman ship Siberia skuas snow social Society soil Soviet species station summer surface Svalbard taiga Taymyr temperature territory Thule tion tourism traditional tundra University whales winter Yakutia Yukon