Besides those mentioned, other large bodies of water adjacent to the Atlantic are the Caribbean Sea ; the Gulf of Mexico ; Hudson Bay ; the Arctic Ocean ; the Mediterranean Sea ; the North Sea ; the Baltic Sea and the Celtic Sea.

In 1968, the Atlantic-Richfield Company discovered oil at Prudhoe Bay on the Arctic coast, catapulting the issue of land ownership into headlines.

The Nelson and Mackenzie watersheds are separated by a divide between streams flowing to the Arctic Ocean and those of the Hudson Bay watershed.

On the way to the fort, he defeated three ships of the Royal Navy in the Battle of Hudson's Bay, the largest naval battle in the history of the North American Arctic.

The American military left Iqaluit in 1963, as intercontinental ballistic missiles ( ICBM ) diminished the strategic value of the DEW line and Arctic airbases, but Frobisher Bay remained the government's administrative and logistical centre for much of the eastern Arctic.

They are reported as seasonally common in the Canadian Arctic, including Baffin Bay between Greenland and Nunavut, and around Tasmania and Macquarie Island.

From Hudson Bay, in 1690 Henry Kelsey reached the lower Saskatchewan River, in 1754 Anthony Henday followed the Saskatchewan almost to the Rocky Mountains and in 1771 Samuel Hearne reached the Arctic coast at the Coppermine River.

The province has 14 major drainage basins made up of various rivers and watersheds draining into the Arctic Ocean, Hudson Bay and the Gulf of Mexico.

This Act also allowed the Canadian parliament and the legislatures of Ontario and Quebec to redraw the boundaries of the Province of Ontario and the Province of Quebec in order to include parts of these land acquisitions, specifically in northern ( Arctic ) Canada around Hudson Bay.

In the western Atlantic Ocean, cod has a distribution north of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, and around both coasts of Greenland ; in the eastern Atlantic, it is found from the Bay of Biscay north to the Arctic Ocean, including the Baltic Sea, the North Sea, Sea of the Hebrides, areas around Iceland and the Barents Sea.

Sometimes the Hudson Bay and Hudson Strait basins are considered part of Arctic Ocean despite that their waters flow predominantly to the Atlantic.

Some sources describe Hudson Bay as a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, or the Arctic Ocean.

The Arctic Bridge shipping route is hoped to link North America to market s in Europe and Asia using ice-free routes across the Arctic OceanThe longer periods of ice-free navigation and the reduction of Arctic Ocean ice coverage have led to Russian and Canadian interest in the potential for commercial trade routes across the Arctic and into Hudson Bay.

James Bay represents the southern extent of the Arctic Archipelago Marine ecozone.

It is bounded on the west by the Beaufort Sea ; on the northwest by the Arctic Ocean ; on the east by Greenland, Baffin Bay and Davis Strait ; and on the south by Hudson Bay and the Canadian mainland.

Tragically, 17 of the 24 Americans involved in the Arctic expedition starved to death during the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition, which was commanded by Adolphus Greely and was part of the first IPY of 1882-83.

The remainder of modern-day Canada was made up of Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory ( both of which were controlled by the Hudson's Bay Company and sold to Canada in 1870 ) and the Arctic Islands, which were under direct British control and became a part of Canada in 1880.

The Arctic and Hudson Bay Lowlands comprise a substantial part of the geographic region often considered part of the Canadian Shield ( in contrast to the sole geological area ).

The Arctic watershed ( or drainage basin ) drains northern parts of Manitoba, Alberta and British Columbia, most of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut as well as parts of Yukon into the Arctic Ocean, including the Beaufort Sea and Baffin Bay.

In 2011, Horatio Valens and Paul Veneti presented a two-hour " Lazeria Map Collection " video on centuries-old maps of the Arctic region and the North Pole, making a case for a 100-mile wide canyon in the center of the physical North Pole, into which north-flowing rivers drain into a hollow Earth.

It is served by daily twin turbo-prop airline service to Anchorage by PenAir, Era Alaska, and Everts Air Cargo ( EvertsAir. com ), and Boeing 737 all-cargo service on Northern Air Cargo, as well as daily flights to Nome and outlying villages by Bering Air, Alaska Transportation Service ( freight only ), and Era Aviation, now known as Era Alaska and parent company of Era Aviation, Hageland Aviation Services, Frontier Flying Service, and Arctic Circle Air, with the Unalakleet-based Era operations being the subject of The Discovery Channel's 2011 series " Flying Wild Alaska.

* Arctic Tern – 1, 180 pairs in 2011 ( not counted in 2012 )

* The Arctic Marauder-Le Démon des glaces ( Fantagraphics, 2011 )

On 30 March 2011, Rocard was on a visit to Stockholm, Sweden to attend an meeting regarding the Arctic Council and in an break at noon, he became ill and was taken to the Karolinska University Hospital.

In March 2009, Handley expressed an interest in running for the Liberals under Michael Ignatieff in the 2011 federal election in the Western Arctic riding.

In 2011, heavy equipment for the Sayano-Shushenskaya Hydro Power Plant was shipped from Saint Petersburg via the canal, the Arctic seas, and the Yenisei River.

The vessel was eventually sold to a private company specializing in Arctic research and was towed away from the Maritime College pier early in 2011.

* F. Stuart Chapin III, professor of Ecology at the Department of Biology and Wildlife of the university's Institute of Arctic Biology and President of the Ecological Society of America ( 2010 – 2011 )

In 2011, Simonon spent time aboard the Greenpeace vessel Esperanza incognito under the guise of " Paul the assistant cook " in response to Arctic oil drilling in Greenland by Cairn oil.

Also in 2011, Beach returned to Canada to star in the TV series Arctic Air, which premiered on January 12, 2012.

In September 2011, Arctic scientists criticised HarperCollins for claiming a 15 % reduction in the cover of the Greenland ice pack between its 1999 10th edition and its 2011 13th edition.

Arctic Oscillation time series for the extended ( DJFM ) winter season 1899 – 2011.

" This said, chemical ozone destruction in the 2011 Arctic polar vortex attained, for the first time, a level clearly identifiable as an Arctic " ozone hole ".

* 2011: Foo Fighters, Incubus, Arcade Fire, The Chemical Brothers, Portishead, Arctic Monkeys, Kaiser Chiefs, My Chemical Romance, Clueso, The Hives, Suede, Kasabian, The Subways, Gogol Bordello, Flogging Molly, Elbow, The Wombats, Jimmy Eat World, Sublime with Rome, Two Door Cinema Club, Boysetsfire, Monster Magnet, The Kills, Lykke Li, Selig, Kashmir, Glasvegas, Band of Horses, The Sounds, Bright Eyes, Sum 41, All Time Low, Klaxons, Eels, Sick of It All, Parkway Drive, William Fitzsimmons, Blood Red Shoes, Jupiter Jones, I Blame Coco, Irie Révoltés, Young Rebel Set, I Am Kloot, Friendly Fires, Darwin Deez, Comeback Kid, Converge, The Asteroids Galaxy Tour, Portugal.

A feature film-partly shot in the area-and based on Duthie's journal ' I Cycled Into The Arctic Circle ' ( first published in 1955 ) is due to be released in 2011.

It encompasses Serious Jungle ( 2002 ), Serious Desert ( 2003 ), Serious Arctic ( 2005 ), Serious Amazon ( 2006 ), Serious Andes ( 2007 ), Serious Ocean ( 2008 / 09 ) and Serious Explorers ( 2011 ).

Although Nanisivik Mine closed in September 2002 the airport was in operation until 2011 and served the community of Arctic Bay.

However, on January 13, 2011, First Air transferred all scheduled air services to Arctic Bay's newly expanded airport.

Population: Despite its rapidly declining population, Murmansk remains the largest city north of the Arctic Circle.

On 8 September 2010 the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced a revised 12 month finding on the petition to list the upper Missouri River Distinct Population Segment ( Missouri River DPS ) of Arctic grayling

However, the Canadian Wildlife Service's 1999 to 2008 Field Project at the Anderson River Delta entitled " Impact of Increased Harvest on the Western Arctic Snow Goose Population " shows a decline in Snow Goose.