The ArcticEveryone intuitively has a sense of where the Arcticis however many people working within the Arcticdo not consider themselves Arctic researchers.

Am I an Arcticresearcher?

Contrary to what manypeople think the Arcticregion does not stop at

the Arctic circle

The map below shows the variety in the definition of theArctic as outlined by the Arctic council's six working

groups

Finland, Iceland, Greenland and theFaroe Islands all consider their entire

territory to be ArcticNorway uses the Arctic

circle to define it's Arcticregion

The US, Canada and Russia havemore complex boundaries that

include northern Russia, northernCanada and northern and western

Alaska