Characteristics The arctic hare is one of the largest living lagomorphs.

Arctic exploration is the physical exploration of the Arctic region of the Earth.

The North Pole in Peril

The Vanishing Arctic

Using a magnetic compass A magnetic compass points to magnetic north pole, which is approximately 1,000 miles from the true geographic North Pole.

Ben Saunders skis to the North Pole

Lewis Pugh swims the North Pole

Santa lives at the North Pole.

This is the largest known earthquake north of the Arctic Circle.

The Arctic is only water, with the North Pole itself 4,200 meters under the surface.

The Arctic is warming twice as fast as the global average.

S. A. Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition of 1897 was an effort to reach the North Pole in which all three expedition members perished.

Arctic explorer Ben Saunders recounts his harrowing solo ski trek to the North Pole, complete with engaging anecdotes, gorgeous photos and never before seen video.

The Arctic is the area round the North Pole.

Taming the Arctic Oil Rush

A rescue expedition leaves for the Pole on May 30.

The political heat is also being turned up in the Arctic Council, a body set up to facilitate cooperation between states with Arctic territories.

It is situated amongst the islands of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.

The North Pole turned into a lake for the first time in 2000.

The Arctic, Antarctica and the International Polar Year 2007 2008

The melting of arctic ice is one example.

In other parts of the Arctic, though, exploratory drilling has continued.

The climate of the Arctic region has varied significantly in the past.

Franklin's lost expedition was a British voyage of Arctic exploration led by Captain Sir John Franklin that departed England in 1845.

In the southern hemisphere the situation is exactly reversed, with the South Pole oriented opposite the direction of the North Pole.

Not only states are playing for position in the Arctic. The large oil and gas companies are very active, too.

Where are such people to be found in the Arctic?

This sea is one of the least studied in the Arctic area.

The major indigenous organizations in the Arctic are also permanent participants in the Council.

The meridian 3 east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, Europe, Africa, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.

On May 11th last year, I stood alone at the North geographic Pole.

They found the arctic ice impenetrable, and soon gave up their quest.

Today, a far greater Arctic tragedy is unfolding the Arctic sea ice cap is melting.

The territories claimed by Russia include the North Pole and a huge oil field.

In the Arctic, all of those resources are thousands of kilometers away.

Much of the Arctic ice pack is also covered in snow for about 10 months of the year.

The entire route lies in Arctic waters and parts are free of ice for only two months per year.

The Swede Salomon August Andrée shared these enthusiasms, and proposed a plan for letting the wind propel a hydrogen balloon from Svalbard across the Arctic Sea to the Bering Strait, to fetch up in Alaska, Canada, or Russia, and passing near or even right over the North Pole on the way.

The meridian 8 east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Europe, Africa, the Atlantic Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.

There isn't even a pole at the Pole. There's nothing there, purely because it's sea ice. It's drifting.

But ice free arctic waters are more than a symptom of global warming.

North of the Appalachians, the Arctic Cordillera runs along the eastern coast of Canada.

External links Andrzej M. Kobos Orłem do bieguna, high quality photos from the expedition.

The future evolution of ozone in the Arctic is more difficult to estimate, due to the more complex feedback processes involved.

We were trying to ski from this group of islands up here, Severnaya Zemlya, to the North Pole.