National Geographic UK - 09.2019
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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 ...
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the Arctic loses nearly 21,000 square miles of ice each year, and the experts who prepared the 2014 National Climate Assessment ...
point, a mother polar bear appeared near camp with two cubs, which made the act of heading off alone to relieve oneself—already ...
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The attack submarine U.S.S. Connecticut pro- trudes through an ice floe in the Beaufort Sea. For decades the U.S. and Russian na ...
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