Towns and industrial activities in the Arctic

Anchorage Juneau Whitehorse Fairbanks

Alaska (USA)

Anadyr I

Yellowknife CANADA

RUSSIAN FEDERATION Norilsk

Kayerkan Novy Urengoy

Major towns in and around the Arctic

Thousands people 350

100 20

Settlements and villages

Areas inhabitated by Indigenous Peoples

Sea activities

Northwest Passage and Northern Sea Route

Future central Arctic shipping route

Major fishing areas Other actual shipping routes

Oil and gas

Existing pipelines Extraction fields

Main offshore extraction regions (actual and potential)

UK Reykjavik Hafnarfjörður NORWAY SWEDEN

Sources: AMAP Assessment Acidifying Pollutants, Arctic Haze, and Acidification in the Arctic, 2006; USGS, 2002; National statistics offices; Philippe Rekacewicz, UNEP/GRID-Arendal, Vital Arctic Graphics, 2004; Arctic Portal, Interactive Data Map, accessed on September 2010.

LIMITATIONS AND STRENGTHS OF ENVIRONMENTAL AGREEMENTS 19 Kópavogur Nuuk Greenland Murmansk Lenvik Rana Tromsø

Narvik Bodo

Harstad Kiruna

Labytnangi Vorkuta

Severomorsk Apatity

Salekhard Naryah Mar Pechora

Archangelsk Severodvirsk

Onega

Kandalaksha Monchegorsk

Rovaniemi

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