skip to main content
LOTERRE

LOTERRE

Search from vocabulary

Lengua del contenido

| français English
Ayuda para la búsqueda

Concept information

Término preferido

Arctic  

Definición

  • The Arctic is the region of Earth where the sun never rises for one24-hour period in the winter and never sets for one 24-hour period in the summer. This area has been demarcated as north of the 66.5° north latitude and includes the northern parts of Alaska, Canada,Greenland, Siberia, and the Svalbard archipelago, which lies 700 km north of Norway. [Source: Encyclopedia of Anthropology; Arctic]

Concepto genérico

Pertenece al grupo

URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-GVHVPZDQ-4

Descargue este concepto: