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Wikipedia: The Arctic is the region around the Earth's North Pole, opposite the Antarctic region around the South Pole. The Arctic includes the Arctic Ocean (which overlies the North Pole) and parts of Canada, Greenland (a territory of Denmark), Russia, the United States, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Finland. The word Arctic comes from the Greek αρκτικός (arktikos), "near the Bear, arctic, northern" and that from the word άρκτος (arktos), which means bear.
![[Long-range pollution pathways to the Arctic]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Contamination_pathways_large_s.jpg "Long-range pollution pathways to the Arctic")
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![[Marine Fossils at Beechy Island, Canadian Arctic Category:Fossils Category:Images of the Arctic]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Arctic_fossils_s.jpg "Marine Fossils at Beechy Island, Canadian Arctic Category:Fossils Category:Images of the Arctic")
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![[Artificially coloured topographical map of the Arctic region.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Arctica_surface_s.jpg "Artificially coloured topographical map of the Arctic region.")
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![[MODIS image of the same region.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Sunny_Skies_over_the_Arctic_in_Late_June_2010_s.jpg "MODIS image of the same region.")
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