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

The North Pole in Peril

Lewis Pugh swims the North Pole

Santa lives at the North Pole.

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

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

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

Taming the Arctic Oil Rush

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

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.

A rescue expedition leaves for the Pole on May 30.

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

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

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

The melting of arctic ice is one example.

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

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.

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

The Arctic, Antarctica and the International Polar Year 2007 2008

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

That takes months in the best of circumstances it could take a year or more in the Arctic.

Last winter, temperature records led scientist to speak of Arctic heatwaves.

Since 2002 the society has sponsored an annual seasonal ice base in the Arctic, Camp Barneo.

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

It is a perennial that is found throughout Alaska, from Hyder to the Arctic Coast, and west to the Aleutians.

Day and night The sun at the North Pole is continuously above the horizon during the summer and continuously below the horizon during the winter.

This fact has also been confirmed by the results of the independent Arctic Climate Impact Assessment, published in 2004.

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.

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