World map showing the Arctic Circle in red.

* Polar maps of the Arctic or Antarctic regions are conventionally centred on the pole ; the direction North would be towards or away from the centre of the map, respectively.

Artificially coloured topographical map of the Arctic region.

Northern Canada ( depicted to the left ) on a map of the Arctic Circle.

Arctic continent on the Gerardus Mercator map of 1595.

In spring, the birds arrive on the High Arctic breeding grounds ( see map ), where they lay 3 – 4 eggs in a ground scrape.

* The Arctic ice sheet True color satellite map with daily updates.

Davis's explorations in the Arctic were published by Richard Hakluyt and appeared on his world map.

The Eskimo – Aleut languages are spoken by native peoples of the Arctic regions of Alaska and Canada and Greenland, generally to the North of Na-Dene linguistic areas ( shown on the map on the left ).

Nested among the ice-locked waters of the Arctic Ocean, Severnaya Zemlya was not put on the map until the 1913 – 1915 Arctic Ocean Hydrographic Expedition of icebreakers Taimyr and Vaigach.

Frisland detail from Gerardus Mercator | Mercator's 1623 Arctic map

From his notes and diaries Peter Pond drew a map showing rivers and lakes of the Athabasca region, including what was known of the whole area from Hudson Bay to the Rocky Mountains and interpolating his information to the Arctic Ocean or Northwest Passage.

Between 1899 to 1902, he overwintered three more times on Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic with the Fram, continuing to explore and map, culminating in the discovery of the islands to the west of Ellesmere Island, namely Axel Heiberg, Amund Ringnes and Ellef Ringnes, collectively known as the Sverdrup Islands.

Point Barrow is also an important geographical landmark, marking the limit between two marginal seas of the Arctic, the Chukchi Sea on its western side and the Beaufort Sea on the eastern, both delimited to the North by the edge of the map as seen here.

The first map, scale 1: 40, 000, 000 covers both the Arctic and Antarctica, with the routes of the explorers from Cook to 1861.

He published the same map of the Arctic and Antarctic as in 1865, but now with Greenland stretching over the Arctic and ending in Wrangel Island close to the Bering Strait.

In 1869 he published a map of the Arctic Ocean North of Wrangel Island with all exploration routes between 1648 and 1867 and a map with sea-temperatures in the Greenland Sea and the Norwegian Sea as observed by the German expedition.

In 1874 he again published an overview map of the Arctic scale 1: 16, 000, 000 now with all the routes from 1616 to the end of 1874, complemented with the new meteorological weather stations.

In 1931, a chartist lands a plane in the Arctic to map unrecorded regions.

Mercator's map from 1595 showing the Arctic continent.

The Arctic map inset on Mercator's 1569 world map ( seen here )-- was the prototype for the influential and widely circulated Septentrionalium Terrarum of 1595, posthumously published by his son, and the maps in Ortelius's Theatrum Orbis Terrarum of 1570.

A map depicting the location of the Bosphorus ( red ) relative to the Dardanelles ( yellow ) and the Sea of Marmara.

This electrostatic potential map shows how the oxygen atom has a more negative charge ( red ) than the positive ( blue ) hydrogen atoms of a water molecule.

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He liked to " paint the map United Kingdom | British red ," and declared: " all of these stars ... these vast worlds that remain out of reach.

Location of Lake Toba shown in red on map.

1905 administrative map of Province of Silesia showing the historical locations of Upper Silesia ( Oppeln ) in red, Middle Silesia ( Breslau ) in yellow, and Lower Silesia ( Liegnitz ) in green

Political map of the Angevin and Welsh revolt in 1140 ; red indicates those areas under Stephen's control ; blue – Angevin ; grey – indigenous Welsh

A political map of England in 1153 ; red indicates those areas broadly under Stephen's control ; blue – Angevin ; grey – indigenous Welsh ; cream – Ranulf of Chester and Robert of Leicester ; green – David I of Scotland

AD 1, map of Eurasia with the Roman Empire ( red ), Parthian Empire ( brown ), Chinese Han dynasty ( yellow ) and other states / areas with smaller states ( light yellow ).

Image: Map of territorial growth 1775. svg | In 1775, the British claimed authority over the red and pink areas on this map and Spain claimed the orange.

There is a red line marking the boundary between New York and Quebec, and the upper third of the map shows the Richelieu River extending north to meet the Saint Lawrence River at Sorel, with Montreal southwest of that point.

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This map shows the location of the majority of the Tohono O ' odham Nation in Pima County, Arizona | Pima County, highlighting the large Tohono O ' odham Reservation as well as the smaller San Xavier Reservation in red.

It refers to the practice of marking a red line on a map to delineate the area where banks would not invest ; later the term was applied to discrimination against a particular group of people ( usually by race or sex ) irrespective of geography.

The thin red circular contour line in the middle of the map indicates the top of the oil reservoir.

World map with the intertropical zone highlighted in red.

The Central line is a London Underground line, coloured red on the tube map.

The map on the right shows, in red, a typical, non-competitive, route for a sailing circumnavigation of the world by the trade winds and the Suez and Panama canals ; overlaid in yellow are the points antipodal to all points on the route.

The map on the left shows the route of the Vendée Globe round-the-world race in red ; overlaid in yellow are the points antipodal to all points on the route.

This map shows areas of upwelling in red.

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Political map of Wales and southern England in 1140 ; red = areas under Stephen's control, blue = Matilda, grey = indigenous Welsh

A political map of southern Great Britain in 1153 ; red = areas broadly under Stephen's control, blue = Angevin, grey = indigenous Welsh, cream = Ranulf of Chester and Robert of Leicester, green = David I of Scotland