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Longitude	Country, territory or sea	Notes
5° 5th meridian east The meridian 5? east of Prime Meridian is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Europe, Africa, the Atlantic Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole....  10° 10th meridian east The meridian 10? east of Prime Meridian is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Europe, Africa, the Atlantic Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole....	Arctic Ocean Arctic Ocean The Arctic Ocean, located in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Arctic North Pole region, is the smallest and shallowest of the world's five major oceanic divisions....	Norwegian Sea Norwegian Sea The Norwegian Sea is part of the North Atlantic Ocean northwest of Norway, located between the North Sea and the Greenland Sea.It adjoins the Iceland Sea to the west and the Barents Sea to the northeast....
15° 15th meridian east The meridian 15? east of Prime Meridian is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Europe, Africa, the Atlantic Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole....		Rødøy Rødøy R?d?y is a Municipalities of Norway in Nordland Counties of Norway, Norway. It is part of the Helgeland Districts of Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of V?gaholmen.... , Svartisen Svartisen Svartisen is a collective term for two glaciers located in northern Norway. The system consists of two separate glaciers,* Vestre Svartisen , which is the second largest glacier on the Norwegian mainland after Jostedalsbreen... , Saltfjell, Bogvatnet Bogvatnet Bogvatnet is a Norway lake that lies in Rana, Norway municipalities of Norway in Nordland....
20° 20th meridian east The meridian 20? east of Prime Meridian is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Europe, Africa, the Atlantic Ocean and Indian Ocean oceans, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole....		Jokkmokk Jokkmokk Jokkmokk is a urban areas of Sweden in Lapland, Sweden and the seat of Jokkmokk Municipality, Norrbotten County. The S?mi name of the place means "River's Curve", due to the meandering river that runs through it....
25° 25th meridian east The meridian 25? east of Prime Meridian is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Europe, Africa, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole....		Rovaniemi Rovaniemi Rovaniemi is a List of cities and towns in Finland and Municipalities of Finland of Finland. It is the administrative Capital and the centre of commerce of Finland's northernmost Province, Lapland, Finland.... , Lake Kemijärvi Lake Kemijärvi Kemij?rvi is a lake in the northern Finland.References...
30° 30th meridian east The meridian 30? east of Prime Meridian is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Europe, Turkey, Africa, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.... 40° 40th meridian east The meridian 40? east of Prime Meridian is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Europe, Asia, Africa, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole....	Karelia Republic of Karelia The Republic of Karelia is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia ....	Kandalaksha Gulf Kandalaksha Gulf The Kandalaksha Gulf is located in the Republic of Karelia, and Murmansk Oblast in northwestern Russia. Forming the north-western corner of the White Sea, it is one of four large bays and gulfs of this sea, the others being the Onega Bay , the Dvina Bay , and the Mezen Bay .... , Kola Peninsula Kola Peninsula The Kola Peninsula is a peninsula in the far north of Russia, part of the Murmansk Oblast. It borders upon the Barents Sea on the North and the White Sea on the East and South.... , Northern Sea Route Northern Sea Route The Northern Sea Route is a shipping lane from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean along the Russian coasts of the Russian Far East and Siberia....  (east)
41°-43°	White Sea White Sea The White Sea is an inlet of the Barents Sea on the northwest coast of Russia. It is surrounded by Karelia to the west, the Kola peninsula to the north, and the Kanin Peninsula to the northeast....
45° 45th meridian east The meridian 45? east of Prime Meridian is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Europe, Asia, Africa, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.... 50° 50th meridian east The meridian 50? east of Prime Meridian is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Europe, Asia, Africa, the Indian Ocean, Madagascar, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole....	Nenetsia Nenets Autonomous Okrug Nenets Autonomous Okrug , or Nenetsia, is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia .It has an area of 176,700 km? and population of 41,546 as of the Russian Census , 18,611 of whom live in Naryan-Mar, the administrative center....
55° 55th meridian east The meridian 55? east of Prime Meridian is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Europe, Asia, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.... 60° 60th meridian east The meridian 60? east of Prime Meridian is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Europe, Asia, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole....	Komi Komi Republic The Komi Republic is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia ....
65° 65th meridian east The meridian 65? east of Prime Meridian is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Europe, Asia, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole....  70° 70th meridian east The meridian 70? east of Prime Meridian is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Asia, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole....  75° 75th meridian east The meridian 75? east of Prime Meridian is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Asia, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole....  80° 80th meridian east The meridian 80? east of Prime Meridian is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Asia, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole....	Yamalia Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug , or Yamalia, is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia .The Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug is the largest administrative division of Tyumen with an area 750,300 km?....	Salekhard Salekhard Salekhard is a types of inhabited localities in Russia and the administrative center of Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia. It is believed to be the only town in the world that is located right on the Polar circle.... , Gulf of Ob Gulf of Ob The Gulf of Ob is an immense headlands and bays of the Arctic Ocean in Northern Russia, at the head of which is the mouth of the Ob River....
85° 85th meridian east The meridian 85? east of Prime Meridian is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Asia, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole....	Krasnoyarsk Krasnoyarsk Krasnoyarsk is the administrative center of Krasnoyarsk Krai of Russia, and the third largest types of inhabited localities in Russia in Siberia....
90° 90th meridian east The meridian 90? east of Prime Meridian is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Asia, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole....  100° 100th meridian east The meridian 100? east of Prime Meridian is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Asia, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole....  105° 105th meridian east The meridian 105? east of Prime Meridian is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Asia, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole....	Evenkia
110° 110th meridian east The meridian 110? east of Prime Meridian is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Asia, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.... 120° 120th meridian east The meridian 120? east of Prime Meridian is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Asia, the Indian Ocean, Australia, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.... 130° 130th meridian east The meridian 130? east of Prime Meridian is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Asia, Australia, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.... 135° 135th meridian east The meridian 135? east of Prime Meridian is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, Australasia, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.... 140° 140th meridian east The meridian 140? east of Prime Meridian is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, Australasia, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.... 150° 150th meridian east The meridian 150? east of Prime Meridian is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, Australasia, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.... 155° 155th meridian east The meridian 155? east of Prime Meridian is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, Australasia, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole....	Sakha Sakha Republic The Sakha Republic is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia . At half the size of the Far Eastern Federal District, it is the list of the largest country subdivisions by area in the world at 3,100,000 km? with a population of less than one million....	Udachnaya pipe Udachnaya pipe Udachnaya pipe is a diamond deposit in the Daldyn-Alakit kimberlite field in Sakha Republic, Russia. It is an Open-pit mining, and is located just outside the Arctic circle at ....
160° 160th meridian east The meridian 160? east of Prime Meridian is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.... 170° E 170th meridian east The meridian 170? east of Prime Meridian is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, New Zealand, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.... 180° 180th meridian The 180th meridian or antimeridian is the meridian defined as 180? longitude. It is the line of longitude exactly opposite the Prime Meridian....	Chukotka Chukotka Autonomous Okrug Chukotka Autonomous Okrug , or Chukotka , is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia located in the Far Eastern Federal District federal districts of Russia....
170° W 170th meridian west The meridian 170? west of Prime Meridian is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole....	Arctic Ocean Arctic Ocean The Arctic Ocean, located in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Arctic North Pole region, is the smallest and shallowest of the world's five major oceanic divisions....	Chukchi Sea Chukchi Sea Chukchi Sea is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean. It is bounded on the west by the De Long Strait, off Wrangel Island, and in the east by Point Barrow, Alaska, beyond which lies the Beaufort Sea.... , Northwest Passage Northwest Passage The Northwest Passage is a sea route through the Arctic Ocean, along the northern coast of North America via waterways amidst the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, connecting the Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Oceans....  (west), Northern Sea Route Northern Sea Route The Northern Sea Route is a shipping lane from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean along the Russian coasts of the Russian Far East and Siberia....  (west)
165° 165th meridian west The meridian 165? west of Prime Meridian is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, North America, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole....	Alaska Alaska Alaska is the largest U.S. state of the United States by area; it is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait....	Seward Peninsula Seward Peninsula The Seward Peninsula is a large peninsula on the western coast of the U.S. state of Alaska. It projects about into the Bering Sea between Norton Sound, the Bering Strait, the Chukchi Sea, and Kotzebue Sound, just below the Arctic Circle....
163°	Arctic Ocean Arctic Ocean The Arctic Ocean, located in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Arctic North Pole region, is the smallest and shallowest of the world's five major oceanic divisions....	Kotzebue Sound Kotzebue Sound Kotzebue Sound is an arm of the Chukchi Sea in the western region of the U.S. state of Alaska, located at . It is on the north side of the Seward Peninsula and bounded the east by the Baldwin Peninsula....
165° 165th meridian west The meridian 165? west of Prime Meridian is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, North America, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.... 160° 160th meridian west The meridian 160? west of Prime Meridian is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, North America, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.... 150° 150th meridian west The meridian 150? west of Prime Meridian is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, North America, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole....	Alaska Alaska Alaska is the largest U.S. state of the United States by area; it is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait....	Selawik Lake Selawik Lake Selawik Lake is a lake located southwest of Selawik, Alaska, Alaska. It is long. It is adjacent to the Selawik National Wildlife Refuge and just inland from Kotzebue Sound.... , Fort Yukon Fort Yukon, Alaska Fort Yukon is a city in the Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska in the U.S. state of Alaska. At the United States Census, 2000 the population was 595....
140° 140th meridian west The meridian 140? west of Prime Meridian is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, North America, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.... 130° 130th meridian west The meridian 130? west of Prime Meridian is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, North America, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole....	Yukon Yukon Yukon is the westernmost and smallest of Canada three Territories of Canada. It was named after the Yukon River, Yukon meaning "Great River" in Gwich?in language....
120° 120th meridian west The meridian 120? west of Prime Meridian is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, North America, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole....	Northwest Territories Northwest Territories The Northwest Territories are a provinces and territories of Canada of Canada.Located in northern Canada, it borders Canada's two other territories, Yukon to the west and Nunavut to the east, and three provinces: British Columbia to the southwest, Alberta and Saskatchewan to the south....	Great Bear Lake Great Bear Lake Great Bear Lake is the largest lake entirely within Canada , the third largest in North America, and the List of world's largest lakes in the world....
110° 110th meridian west The meridian 110? west of Prime Meridian is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, North America, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.... 100° 100th meridian west The meridian 100? west of Prime Meridian is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, North America, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.... 90° 90th meridian west The meridian 90? west of Prime Meridian is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, North America, the Gulf of Mexico, Central America, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.... 85° 85th meridian west The meridian 85? west of Prime Meridian is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, North America, the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean Sea, Central America, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole....	Nunavut Nunavut Nunavut is the largest and newest Provinces and territories of Canada of Canada; it was separated officially from the Northwest Territories on April 1, 1999 via the Nunavut Act and the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement Act, though the actual boundaries had been established in 1993....	Repulse Bay Repulse Bay, Nunavut Repulse Bay is an Inuit Hamlet located on the shore of Hudson Bay, Kivalliq Region, in Nunavut, Canada....
80° 80th meridian west The meridian 80? west of Prime Meridian is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, North America, the Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea, Central America, South America, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole....	Foxe Basin Foxe Basin Not to be confused with Fox Bay, Falkland IslandsFoxe Basin is a shallow oceanic basin north of Hudson Bay, in Nunavut, Canada, located between Baffin Island and the Melville Peninsula....
70° 70th meridian west The meridian 70? west of Prime Meridian is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, North America, the Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea, South America, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.... 65° 65th meridian west The meridian 65? west of Prime Meridian is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, North America, the Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea, South America, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole....	Nunavut Nunavut Nunavut is the largest and newest Provinces and territories of Canada of Canada; it was separated officially from the Northwest Territories on April 1, 1999 via the Nunavut Act and the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement Act, though the actual boundaries had been established in 1993....	Baffin Island Baffin Island Baffin Island in the territory of Nunavut is the largest member of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. It is the List of Canadian islands by area and the List of islands by area, with an area of and has a population of 11,000 .... , Mount Thor Mount Thor Mount Thor, officially gazetted as Thor Peak, is a mountain in Auyuittuq National Park, on Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada. The mountain is located 46 km northeast of Pangnirtung, Nunavut and features the Earth's Extremes on Earth at , with an average angle of 105 degrees....
60° 60th meridian west The meridian 60? west of Prime Meridian is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Greenland, North America, the Atlantic Ocean, South America, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.... 55° 55th meridian west The meridian 55? west of Prime Meridian is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, North America, the Atlantic Ocean, South America, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole....	Atlantic Ocean Atlantic Ocean The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's oceanic divisions; with a total area of about 106.4 million square kilometres . It covers approximately one-fifth of the Earth's surface....	Davis Strait Davis Strait Davis Strait ; lies between mid-western Greenland and Baffin Island in the Canada territory of Nunavut.With a water depth of between one and two thousand meters the strait is substantially shallower than the Labrador Sea to the south or Baffin Bay to the north.... , Northwest Passage Northwest Passage The Northwest Passage is a sea route through the Arctic Ocean, along the northern coast of North America via waterways amidst the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, connecting the Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Oceans....  (east)
50° 50th meridian west The meridian 50? west of Prime Meridian is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Greenland, the Atlantic Ocean, South America, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.... 45° 45th meridian west The meridian 45? west of Prime Meridian is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Greenland, the Atlantic Ocean, South America, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.... 40° 40th meridian west The meridian 40? west of Prime Meridian is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Greenland, the Atlantic Ocean, South America, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.... 35° 35th meridian west The meridian 35? west of Prime Meridian is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Greenland, the Atlantic Ocean, South America, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole....		Helheim Glacier Greenland ice sheet The Greenland ice sheet is a vast body of ice covering 1.71 million km?, roughly 80% of the surface of Greenland. It is the second largest ice body in the World, after the Antarctic Ice Sheet....
30° 30th meridian west The meridian 30? west of Prime Meridian is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Greenland, the Atlantic Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.... 25° 25th meridian west The meridian 25? west of Prime Meridian is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Greenland, the Atlantic Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole....	Atlantic Ocean Atlantic Ocean The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's oceanic divisions; with a total area of about 106.4 million square kilometres . It covers approximately one-fifth of the Earth's surface....	Denmark Strait Denmark Strait The Denmark Strait is a strait between Greenland and Iceland . The Norway island of Jan Mayen is located northeast of the strait.It connects the Greenland Sea, an extension of the Arctic Ocean, to the Atlantic Ocean and is 300 miles long and 180 miles wide at its narrowest....
20° 20th meridian west The meridian 20? west of Prime Meridian is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Greenland, Iceland, the Atlantic Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.... 15° 15th meridian west The meridian 15? west of Prime Meridian is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Greenland, Iceland, the Atlantic Ocean, Africa, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole....		Island of Grímsey Grímsey Gr?msey is a small island north of Iceland, situated directly on the Arctic Circle. The island constitutes the Municipalities of Iceland Gr?mseyjarhreppur, which is part of the Counties of Iceland Eyjafjar?ars?sla....
10° 10th meridian west The meridian 10? west of Prime Meridian is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, Ireland, Africa, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.... 5° 5th meridian west The meridian 5? west of Prime Meridian is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, Europe, Africa, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole....	Arctic Ocean Arctic Ocean The Arctic Ocean, located in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Arctic North Pole region, is the smallest and shallowest of the world's five major oceanic divisions....	Norwegian Sea Norwegian Sea The Norwegian Sea is part of the North Atlantic Ocean northwest of Norway, located between the North Sea and the Greenland Sea.It adjoins the Iceland Sea to the west and the Barents Sea to the northeast....

Few people live north of the Arctic Circle due to the Arctic climate

Climate of the Arctic

The Climate of the Arctic is characterized broadly by long, cold winters and short, cool summers. There is a large amount of variability in climate across the Arctic, but all regions experience extremes of solar radiation in both summer and winter....
. The three largest communities above the Arctic Circle are situated in Russia; Murmansk

Murmansk

Murmansk is a types of inhabited localities in Russia and seaport in the extreme northwest part of Russia, on the Kola Bay, 12 km from the Barents Sea on the northern shore of the Kola Peninsula, not far from Russia's borders with Norway and Finland....
 (population 325,100), Norilsk

Norilsk

Norilsk is a major types of inhabited localities in Russia in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. It was granted city status in 1953. It is the northernmost city in Siberia and the world's second largest city above the Arctic Circle....
 (135,000), and Vorkuta

Vorkuta

Vorkuta is a coal mining types of inhabited localities in Russia in the Komi Republic, Russia, situated just north of the Arctic circle in the Pechora coal basin at the Usa River river....
 (85,000). Tromsø

Tromsø

is a List of cities in Norway and Municipalities of Norway in Troms Counties of Norway, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Troms?....
 (in Norway) has about 62,000 inhabitants, whereas Rovaniemi

Rovaniemi

Rovaniemi is a List of cities and towns in Finland and Municipalities of Finland of Finland. It is the administrative Capital and the centre of commerce of Finland's northernmost Province, Lapland, Finland....
 (in Finland), which lies slightly south of the line, has slightly fewer than 58,000.

See also

• Arctic haze
  Arctic Haze
  
  Arctic haze is the phenomenon of a visible reddish-brown haze in the atmosphere at high latitudes in the Arctic due to air pollution. A major distinguishing factor of Arctic haze is the ability of its chemical ingredients to persist in the atmosphere for an extended period of time compared to other pollutants....
  
• Scott Polar Research Institute
  Scott Polar Research Institute
  
  The Scott Polar Research Institute is a centre for research into the polar regions and glaciology worldwide. It is a sub-department of the Department of Geography in the University of Cambridge, England....
  
• Territorial claims in the Arctic
  Territorial claims in the Arctic
  
  Under international law, no country currently owns the North Pole or the region of the Arctic Ocean surrounding it. The five surrounding Arctic states, Russia, the United States , Canada, Norway and Denmark , are limited to a economic zone around their coasts....
  
• Tropic of Cancer
  Tropic of Cancer
  
  The Tropic of Cancer, or Northern tropic, is one of five major degree measures or major circle of latitude that mark maps of the Earth. It is the northernmost latitude at which the Sun can appear directly overhead at noon....
  
• Tropic of Capricorn
  Tropic of Capricorn
  
  The Tropic of Capricorn, or Southern tropic, is one of the five major circle of latitude that mark maps of the Earth. It lies 23degree 26' 22? south of the Equator, and marks the most southerly latitude at which the sun can appear directly overhead at noon....
  

External links

• —Historical essay about early expeditions to the Canadian Arctic, illustrated with maps, photographs and drawings