2019-09-01_National_Geographic_Interactive

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Wrangel I.Wrangel I. ALASKA (U.S.) Bering Strait Chukchi Sea Bering Sea Beaufort Sea East Siberian Sea East Siberian Sea East Si ...

Oden Swedish research vessel Selected gas or oil pipeline September 10, 2018 sea ice extent Median September sea ice extent 1981 ...

Canadian soldiers climb on the wreckage of a plane, roughly a thou- sand miles south of the North Pole, to scout the area during ...

BY NEIL SHEA PHOTOGRAPHS BY LOUIE PALU AS THE ARCTIC THAWS, NATIONS ARE RACING TO CONTROL RESOURCES AND SHIPPING ROUTES BURIED B ...

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U.S. soldiers eat high- calorie rations to help their bodies deal with the cold at the Northern Warfare Training Center in Alask ...

Some 400 U.S. soldiers practice parachute jumps near Alaska’s Fort Greely. The multinational exercise, which includes Cana- dian ...

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Marines simulate seizing a building in Utqiaġvik, Alaska, the northernmost city in the United States. Marine Corps com- mandant ...

GPS training, military-style target practice, search-and-rescue scenarios, and plenty of hunt- ing and ice fishing. I stood at t ...

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Susie Hiqinit (left) and Andy Issigaitok (above), reservists with the Canadian Rangers, serve alongside many other Inuit. These ...

Wrangel I. C A N A D A ALASKA (U.S.) Yakutsk Fairbanks Ft. Greely Northern Warfare Training Center Utqiaġvik (Barrow) U.S. EEZ B ...

ARCTIC CIRCLE 60 ̊N MENDELEEV RIDGE North Pole LO M O N OS OV (^) R ID G E Hans Island Cornwallis I. New Siberian Is. North Land ...

U.S. soldiers practice climbing a hill while wearing skis at Alaska’s Northern Warfare Train- ing Center, where troops learn a r ...

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in other words, is open for business. For most of human history, the world above 66 degrees latitude has remained largely out of ...

LEFT U.S. aviators practice deploying signal flares in the event of a crash or forced landing. With millions of square miles of ...

U.S. Special Forces troops and Marines simulate capturing an Arctic radar station at Point Barrow, Alaska, the nation’s northern ...