With detailed essays on the Arctic's environment, wildlife, climate, history, exploration, resources, economics, politics, indigenous cultures and languages, conservation initiatives, etc, this is the only major work and comprehensive reference

Alutiit Roald Amundsen Anchorage Animals in the world-views of indigenous peoples Arctic: definitions and boundaries Arctic Environmental Protection Strategy Arkhangel'sk Aurora Bear ceremonialism Vitus Bering Beringia Bioconcentration Bowhead (Greenland right) whale Bureau of Indian Affairs Caribou hunting Chukchi Sea Chukotskiy Autonomous Area Climate change Cod Wars Committee for Original Peoples' Entitlement (COPE) Denbigh Flint Culture Eirik the Red Eskimo-Aleut languages Food use of wild species Food Webs, Marine Fur trade Geological history of the Arctic Geopolitics of the Arctic Glacial geomorphology Grand Council of the Cree Gwich'in Settlement Area Hudson's Bay Company Ice caps Ice jams Ice shelves Iceland Indigenous knowledge Inuit Inuvialuit Kola Peninsula Local and transboundary pollution Masks Militarization of the Arctic in Russia Fridtjof Nansen Narwhal National Parks and protected areas: Canada Nunavut Final Agreement Oil exploration Pancake ice Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) Puffin Ribbon seal Saami Self-government Sustainable development Taiga Whaling, subsistence

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