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a frozen ocean wearing ice as a disguise, melting out of its own costume
means Relating to the region around the North Pole, or simply extremely cold and frozen.
from From Greek 'arktikos,' meaning 'of the bear' — but not the polar bear you'd expect. It points to the constellation Ursa Major, the Great Bear, which wheels through the northern sky. To the ancient Greeks, 'the bear's quarter' simply meant 'the far north,' and the word drifted down through Latin 'arcticus' into English, still pointing at the cold end of the compass.
- no land
- It's sea ice over deep ocean, not solid ground
- means bear
- Named from Greek arktos, the constellation Great Bear
- sun tricks
- Months of unbroken daylight, then months of dark
- shrinking fast
- Summer ice has halved since satellites began watching
- polar bears only
- No penguins here, they live the opposite pole
arctic council — 8-member intergovernmental forum including canada, denmark, finland, iceland, norway, russia, sweden, and the united states
northwest passage — sea route through canadian arctic archipelago connecting atlantic and pacific, ice-free summers since 2007
arctic tern — migratory bird with longest migration on earth, 44,000 miles annually between arctic and antarctic