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Pages in category "Arctic land animals" The following 54 pages are in this category, out of 54 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. *
Arctic land animals (1 C, 54 P) Birds of the Arctic (5 C, 58 P) Freshwater fish of the Arctic (34 P) Insects of the Arctic (72 P) Mammals of the Arctic (3 C, 38 P) *
But reindeer populations in the northern lands closest to the North Pole have been falling rapidly. ... and a herd of muskoxen share the same territory at Alaska’s Large Animal Research Station ...
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The North Pole, also known as the Geographic North Pole or Terrestrial North Pole, is the point in the Northern Hemisphere where the Earth's axis of rotation meets its surface. It is called the True North Pole to distinguish from the Magnetic North Pole .
The word Arctic comes from the Greek word ἀρκτικός (arktikos), "near the Bear, northern" [4] and from the word ἄρκτος (arktos), meaning bear. [5] The name refers either to the constellation known as Ursa Major, the "Great Bear", which is prominent in the northern portion of the celestial sphere, or to the constellation Ursa Minor, the "Little Bear", which contains the celestial ...
The range of the polar bear encircles the North Pole.. A circumpolar distribution is any range of a taxon that occurs over a wide range of longitudes but only at high latitudes; such a range therefore extends all the way around either the North Pole or the South Pole.
They are found at elevations up to 3,000 m (9,800 ft) above sea level and have been seen on sea ice close to the North Pole. [43] The Arctic fox is the only land mammal native to Iceland. [44] It came to the isolated North Atlantic island at the end of the last ice age, walking over the frozen sea.