Geographicals

Arctic Regions

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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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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2 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings epidemiology, ethnology.

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note spelling: arctic: neither spelled nor pronounced "artic"

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  1. Z01w.208w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Arctic Regions. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D001110. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D001110
  2. Arctic Regions. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic
  3. Arctic Regions. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25322