While neighbouring Nunavut is mostly Arctic tundra, the Northwest Territories has a slightly warmer climate and is mostly boreal forest ( taiga ), although about half of the territory is north of the tree line.

While the South Pole lies on a continental land mass, the North Pole is located in the middle of the Arctic Ocean amid waters that are almost permanently covered with constantly shifting sea ice.

While it is commonly accepted that Herschel Island ( in the Arctic Ocean, part of the Yukon Territory ) was named after him, the entries in the expedition journal of Sir John Franklin state that the latter wished to honour the Herschel name, about which John Herschel ’ s father ( Sir William Herschel ) and his aunt ( Caroline Herschel ) constitute two other notable members of this family.

While there has never been a freeze reported in the Bahamas, the temperature can fall to during Arctic outbreaks that affect nearby Florida.

While the largest part of the Arctic is composed of permanent ice and tundra north of the tree line, it encompasses geological regions of varying types: the Innuitian Mountains, associated with the Arctic Cordillera mountain system, is geologically distinct from the Arctic Region ( which consists largely of lowlands ).

While perhaps Bowdoin's better-known alumnus in the sciences is the controversial entomologist-turned-sexologist Alfred Kinsey, class of 1916, the College's reputation in this area was cemented in large part by the Arctic explorations of Admiral Robert E. Peary, class of 1877, and Donald B. MacMillan, class of 1898. View of the campus from Coles Tower ( constructed as the " Senior Center "), the second tallest building in Maine Peary led the first successful expedition to the North Pole in 1908, and MacMillan, a member of Peary's crew, became famous in his own right as he explored Greenland, Baffin Island and Labrador in the schooner Bowdoin between 1908 and 1954.

While the fiery and magnificent Spaniard, inflamed with the mania for gold, has extended his discoveries and conquests over those brilliant countries scorched by the ardent sun of the tropics, the adroit and buoyant Frenchman, and the cool and calculating Briton, have pursued the less splendid, but no less lucrative, traffic in furs amidst the hyperborean regions of the Canadas, until they have advanced even within the Arctic Circle.

While most airways in the United States are based on VORs, NDB airways are common elsewhere, especially in the developing world and in lightly populated areas of developed countries, like the Canadian Arctic, since they can have a long range and are much less expensive to operate than VORs.

While fledglings can fall prey to rats, cats or the Arctic Fox, healthy adults are threatened only by greater raptors such as the Golden Eagle and the White-tailed Eagle, and more rarely by the Orca whale.

While some consumers view the Arctic Roll as comfort food, others view it as old fashioned and the food writer Nigel Slater has even described it as tasting of " frozen carpet ".

While there are no permanent settlements on this Canadian Arctic island, Inuit from Pond Inlet and elsewhere regularly travel to Bylot Island.

While losing this position, he also gained the Lieutenant Governorship of Keewatin District, a new territory which stretched up into the Arctic.

While Cambridge Bay has no cars ( only snowmobiles, ATVs and trucks ), Google responded to a proposal by Cambridge Bay resident Chris Kalluk to include Arctic communities in Street View in order to educate the rest of the world.

While at the Pole, her crew scattered the ashes of Arctic explorer Sir Hubert Wilkins.

While Arctic temperatures have generally increased, there is some discussion over the temperatures over Greenland.

While Petermann was honored in 1876 by the American Geographical Society, during the last week of a 3 weeks visiting the U. S. A., Dr. Isaac I. Hayes disputed the hypothesis of Petermann ’ s land tongue stretching from Greenland to the Bering Sea, though he agreed that the Arctic Ocean would possibly be open water.

While it proved unfruitful, Spence became a sailor and Kennedy joined a search for the Arctic explorer, Sir John Franklin.

While not having a particularly distinguished career, he is remembered for the entertaining journals he kept and for the watercolour paintings he completed in the Arctic.

While there are no permanent settlements on this Canadian Arctic island, Inuit from Pond Inlet and elsewhere regularly travel to Bylot Island.

While progressing through the four distinct sections of the space station — Euro-Eden, Arctic Kingdom, Jungle Safari, and Desert Adventure — the player collects the scattered remains of Evo's protective shell suit, eventually re-assembling him for the final level.

While the Cape Breton Regional Municipality is in transition from an industrial to a service-based economy, the rest of Cape Breton Island outside of the industrial area surrounding Sydney-Glace Bay has been more stable, with a mixture of fishing, forestry, small-scale agriculture, and tourism.

While he was born in a section of Mobile referred to as " Down the Bay ," he spent most of his youth in Toulminville.

While Kingston and Montego Bay are home to a number of retail stores, including American fast-food franchises such as Domino's, Burger King, and KFC, the majority of the towns in the interior of the country, such as Mandeville, May Pen, and Spanish Town, have small shops, public markets, and temporary roadside stands.

While Alden did not participate in the fight ( which left one person dead ) he was the highest-ranking member from Plymouth that the Massachusetts Bay colonists found to arrest.

While anchored in Dungeness Bay on the south shore of the Strait of Juan de Fuca, third lieutenant Joseph Baker made an observation of Mount Baker, which Vancouver recorded in his journal:

While crossing the Deccan Plateau and then turns to flow in a southeast direction until it empties into the Bay of Bengal through two mouths.

While there were almost no United States settlers in the future state of Washington in 1846, the United States had already demonstrated it could induce thousands of settlers to go to the Oregon Territory, and it would be only a short time before they would vastly outnumber the few hundred Hudson's Bay Company employees and retirees living in Washington.

In February and March 1945, P-40 fighter pilots from 133 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force operating out of RCAF Patricia Bay ( Victoria, British Columbia ), intercepted and destroyed two fire balloons, On 21 February, Pilot Officer E. E. Maxwell While shot down a balloon, which landed on Sumas Mountain, in Washington State.

While previously the contract work force was seen as " primitive " and " lack political consciousness ", the summer 1971 / 72 saw a general strike of 25 % of the entire working population ( 13, 000 people ), starting in Windhoek and Walvis Bay and soon spreading to Tsumeb and other mines.

While the British fleet lay at Lagos Bay, in Portugal, the Spanish prisoners received from the four prizes, numbering about 3000, were landed.

While the Thrashers ' playoff hopes were done for the year, they finished second in the Southeast Division to Tampa Bay and tenth in the Eastern Conference, only a handful of wins away from the playoffs.

While not as large as the scene in Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay Area hardcore scene of the 1980s included a number of noteworthy bands, including Crucifix, Flipper, Kwik Way, and Whipping Boy.

While I-95 in Rhode Island takes a diagonal path to Providence, U. S. 1 continues east along the coast through Westerly to Wakefield, where it turns north and follows Narragansett Bay.

While the law was chasing down the fictitious killer during the late hours, the group of Bay Minette men stealthily traveled the seventeen miles ( 27 km ) to Daphne, stole the Baldwin County Courthouse records, and delivered them to the city of Bay Minette, where Baldwin County's county seat remains.

While sunken ships from the Spanish Main ( such as Nuestra Señora de Atocha in the Florida Keys ) are the most commonly thought of type of treasure salvage, other types of ships including German submarines from World War II which can hold valuable historical artifacts, American Civil War ships ( the USS Maple Leaf in the St. Johns River, and the CSS Virginia in Chesapeake Bay ), and sunken merchant ships ( the SS Central America off Cape Hatteras ) have all been the subject of treasure salvage awards.

While in the early years the Chesapeake Bay Colony had a high ratio of men to women, gradually more women entered the colony and people started creating families.

While " Tanpa " may be the basis for the modern name " Tampa ", archaeologist Jerald Milanich places the Calusa village of Tanpa at the mouth of Charlotte Harbor, the original " Bay of Tanpa ".

While Grand Bay is unincorporated, the area is served by the Grand Bay Water Works Board for water service and an active volunteer fire department for fire protection.

While the post was actually in Russian America, the Hudson's Bay Company continued to trade there until the American traders expelled it in 1869, following the Alaska Purchase when the Alaska Commercial Company took over the post.

While they considered themselves to have a separate identity from other local tribes, modern scholars consider them to be a part of the Ohlone or Costanoan tribes that inhabited the Bay Area.

While early historians placed his approach to the Bay from the Pacific Ocean as coming over the San Carlos hills, present researchers believe this " discovery " actually occurred in present day Belmont.

While the missions continued to receive converts throughout the first half of the 19th century, the Native American way of life in the Bay Area was all but destroyed by that time.

While services such as stores increased in this period, by the beginning of World War II San Carlos was still known in the Bay Area as a rural community.