First Children Encyclopedia

The Arctic

An American called Robert Peary, in 1909.^9

Keeping warm

Arctic animals

have to endure

bitterly cold

weather. Walruses

have a layer of

blubber (fat) to keep

them warm. Polar

bears and reindeer

have thick coats of fur.

Pole to pole

The Arctic tern spends

most of its life flying.

It breeds in the Arctic

during the northern

summer. Then it flies

all the way to the

Antarctic, where it

stays during the

southern summer.

Killer whale

The North Pole

Seal

Iceberg

The Arctic tern catches small

fish and shrimps by swooping

across the surface of the sea.

Walrus

Musk ox

Arctic wolf

Tromsø

Chukchi

Sea

Laptev

Sea

Kara

Sea

Arctic

Ocean

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Norwegian Sea
Barents
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Murmansk
Reindeer
Noril’sk
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