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Arctic  

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  • 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]

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

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