Vulpes lagopus ( arctic fox ) sleeping with its tail wrapped as a blanket.

The arctic fox lives in some of the most frigid extremes on the planet.

The arctic fox has such keen hearing that it can precisely locate the position of prey under the snow.

The arctic fox tends to be active from early September to early May.

The arctic fox will generally eat any small animal it can find: lemmings, voles, hares, owls, eggs, and carrion, etc.

During April and May the arctic fox also preys on ringed seal pups when the young animals are confined to a snow den and are relatively helpless.

If there is an overabundance of food hunted, the arctic fox will bury what the family cannot eat.

When its normal prey is scarce, the arctic fox scavenges the leftovers and even feces of larger predators, such as the polar bear, even though the bear's prey includes the arctic fox itself.

* Bering Islands arctic fox, Vulpes lagopus beringensis

* Pribilof Islands arctic fox, Vulpes lagopus pribilofensis

* Greenland arctic fox, Vulpes lagopus foragorapusis

The arctic fox has a circumpolar range, meaning that it is found throughout the entire Arctic, including the outer edges of Greenland, Russia, Canada, Alaska, and Svalbard, as well as in Subarctic and alpine areas, such as Iceland and mainland alpine Scandinavia.

The arctic fox is the only native land mammal to Iceland.

The Arctic Fox Center in Súðavík contains an exhibition on the arctic fox and conducts studies on the influence of tourism on the population.

The abundance of the arctic fox species tends to fluctuate in a cycle along with the population of lemmings and voles ( a 3-to-4-year cycle )..

The arctic fox is losing ground to the larger red fox.

The arctic fox is sometimes included in this genus as Vulpes lagopus based on the definitive mammal taxonomy list, as well as genetic evidence.

), moose ( Alces alces ), black bear ( Ursus americanus ), red fox ( Vulpes vulpes ), arctic fox ( Alopex lagopus ), wolverine, snowshoe hare ( Lepus americanus ), grouse ( Dendragapus spp.

* Alopex lagopus, the arctic fox

Its feet are feathered to the toes ( hence its scientific name, lagopus, meaning " hare-footed ") as an adaptation to its arctic home range.

* Lycopodium lagopus ( circumpolar arctic and subarctic )

Alopex lagopus ( arctic fox ) sleeping with its tail wrapped as a blanket.

Perhaps four of the most prominent nations to continuously practice arctic warfare in peacetime would be Canada, Russian Federation ( formerly the Soviet Union ), Sweden and Norway, with the latter one hosting the annual, multi national winter exercise Cold Response.

Pytheas is the first known scientific visitor and reporter of the arctic, polar ice, and the Germanic tribes.

The island is known for its birdlife, including corncrakes, arctic terns, gannets, corn buntings and Manx shearwaters.

The Nenets (, ), also known as Samoyeds, are an indigenous people in northern arctic Russia.

Freiherr Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld (), also known as A. E. Nordenskioeld ( 18 November 1832, Helsinki, Finland – 12 August 1901, Dalbyö, Södermanland, Sweden ) was a Finnish baron, geologist, mineralogist and arctic explorer of Finnish-Swedish origin.

The Grey Plover ( Pluvialis squatarola ), known as the Black-bellied Plover in North America, is a medium-sized plover breeding in arctic regions.

* Bear Island ( Norway ), an arctic island of Norway, also known as Bjørnøya

The Nenets people, also known as Samoyeds, are an indigenous people in northern arctic Russia, and some live at the Taymyr Peninsula.

Red Fox and arctic fox are also known to den on the island.

The best known attraction is Ranua Zoo, a wildlife park of arctic animal species which is the northernmost zoo in the world.

Since at least the late 19th century, the river has been known by its English name " Leaf River ", which was probably derived from the arctic willow and birch trees that grow sparsely along its banks.

Hope Bay is an 80 kilometer district in the Canadian arctic and is one of the last known undeveloped greenstone belts in the world.

The only known predators of arctic shrews are owls.

It is otherwise known as the aku, arctic bonito, mushmouth, oceanic bonito, striped tuna, or victor fish.

It was at the time the oldest known human-assisted germination of a seed ( surpassed in 2012 by a 32, 000-year-old arctic flower ).

The arctic fox's seasonal furs, summer ( top ), " blue " ( middle ) and winter ( bottom )

It includes an interview with Flaherty's widow ( and Nanook of the North co-editor ), Frances Flaherty, photos from Flaherty's trip to the arctic, and excerpts from a TV documentary, Flaherty and Film.

Then there is a cold zone to ( treeline ), a subarctic or alpine zone to and fully arctic climate above that.

The boreal forest is home to many types of berries ; some are confined to the southern and middle closed boreal forest ( such as raspberry ), others grow in most areas of the taiga ( such as cranberry and cloudberry ), and some can grow in both the taiga and the low arctic ( southern part of ) tundra ( such as bilberry and lingonberry ).

The word Arctic comes from the Greek ἀρκτικός ( arktikos ), " near the Bear, arctic, northern " and that from the word ἄρκτος ( arktos ), meaning bear.

Whether the initial forcing mechanism is internal or external, the response of the climate system might be fast ( e. g., a sudden cooling due to airborne volcanic ash reflecting sunlight ), slow ( e. g. thermal expansion of warming ocean water ), or a combination ( e. g., sudden loss of albedo in the arctic ocean as sea ice melts, followed by more gradual thermal expansion of the water ).

Although Rubiaceae are found in nearly every major region of the world ( with the exception of continental Antarctica, the high arctic, and portions of central Africa and Asia ), diversity is highest in the humid tropics.

Somerset is also the only place in Pennsylvania to receive accumulations of snow in June before ( other places at most received a partial dusting ), and due to the arctic air, it was powdery snow that was photographed being swept off porches with brooms.

* USS O-12 ( SS-73 ), an O-11-class submarine ( 1917 – 1931 ) which carried the name Nautilus during a civilian arctic expedition in 1931

* Julius von Payer ( 1841 – 1915 ), arctic explorer

The arctic hare ( Lepus arcticus ), or polar rabbit, is a species of hare which is adapted largely to polar and mountainous habitats.

This family consists of two genera: Balaena — with one species, the bowhead whale of the arctic ( B. mysticetus ), and Eubalaena — the " right whales ", also often called " black right whales ".

Venison originally described meat of any game animal killed by hunting, and was applied to any animal from the families Cervidae ( deer ), Leporidae ( hares ), and Suidae ( wild pigs ), and certain species of the genus Capra ( goats and ibex ), such as elk, red deer, fallow deer, roe deer, moose, reindeer / caribou, pronghorn, brown hare, arctic hare, blue hare, wild boar, and ibex but its usage is now almost entirely restricted to the flesh of various species of deer.

Cupressaceae is the most widely distributed conifer family, with a near-global range in all continents except for Antarctica, stretching from 71 ° N in arctic Norway ( Juniperus communis ) south to 55 ° S in southernmost Chile ( Pilgerodendron uviferum ), while Juniperus indica reaches 5200 m altitude in Tibet, the highest altitude reported for any woody plant.

Three species, the bearberries, A. alpina ( Alpine Bearberry ), A. rubra ( Red Bearberry ) and A. uva-ursi ( Common Bearberry ), have adapted to arctic and subarctic climates, and have a circumpolar distribution in northern North America, Asia and Europe.