Arctic Archipelago facts
While investigating facts about Arctic Archipelago Map and Arctic Archipelago Canada, I found out little known, but curios details like:
Champ Island in the Arctic Region of the Franz Josef Land Archipelago. It’s covered in thousands of perfectly round stone spheres ranging in size from ping-pong ball to meters in diameter. It’s still unknown where they came from or how they were formed.
how was the arctic archipelago formed?
The southern extent of the Arctic Archipelago Marine ecozone is considered to be James Bay.
What is the arctic archipelago?
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across answering what makes up the arctic archipelago. Here are 11 of the best facts about Arctic Archipelago Of Svalbard and Arctic Archipelago Of Norway I managed to collect.
what is the canadian arctic archipelago?
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The only cat in the arctic archipelago Svalbard (Norway) was smuggled in as an arctic fox
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One subspecies of caribou called the Peary caribou are only found in Canada's Arctic Archipelago islands. Their population is believed to be approximately 10,000. This subspecies does not migrate very much, and are smaller in size than other caribou.
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During the Cold War of 1950's; the Canadian Government forced some of the Inuit population to move into the Arctic Archipelago, just so they could make a claim a land claim on the islands.
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In 2015, a 400 million year old fossil forest was discovered on an archipelago situated in the Arctic Ocean. The fossils indicated the area would’ve been covered in extremely dense, 13-foot tall lycopod trees that actually helped reduce the CO2 levels in the atmosphere by 15-fold.
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That, despite being inside the Arctic Circle, the temperature of the Lofoten archipelago (Norway) rarely dips below freezing. This is due to the convergence of the Gulf Stream with the North Atlantic Current and the Norwegian Current.
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Bill Gates and some other investors have secured a 'doomsday seed vault' to preserve a wide variety of plant seeds in the remote Arctic Svalbard archipelago.
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Since 1945, 2475 nuclear bombs have been tested. The bigger one was Tsar Bomba -50 megatons, or 3,333 Hiroshima bombs over an archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. The blast was so intense, windows were shattered in Norway and Finland, and the shockwaves travelled around the entire globe 3 times
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The arctic archipelago Limberwisk. A country with both ties to Norway and Greenland.
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Despite being 200 kms north of the Arctic Circle, Norway's Lofoten Archipelago has islands where the average temperature is above freezing year round. The warm air from the Gulf Stream produces an average temperature of 1°C in January, and has gone as high as 30°C in July.
