The Arctic Ocean and the lands in it and adjacent to it. It includes Point Barrow, Alaska, most of the Franklin District in Canada, two thirds of Greenland, Svalbard, Franz Josef Land, Lapland, Novaya Zemlya, and Northern Siberia. (Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p66)
    

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Inuit snow goggles and wooden case

A polar bear encountered by Captain Cook on his third voyage (1777-1780). Engraving by P. Mazell, 1784, after J. Webber.

Arctic regions

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Monument to Sir John Franklin in the Painted Hall at Greenwich Hospital. Wood engraving after R. Westmacott, 1859.

Ross, Rear-Admiral Sir John, (1777-1856), Arctic explorer

Trial by ice : the true story of murder and survival on the 1871 Polaris expedition / Richard Parry.

Arctic doctor / by Joseph P. Moody with W. de Groot van Embden.

Science and the Canadian Arctic : a century of exploration, 1818-1918 / Trevor H. Levere.