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70th parallel north

Index 70th parallel north

The 70th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 70 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane, in the Arctic. [1]

62 relations: Alaska, Amundsen Gulf, Arctic, Arctic Ocean, Asia, Atlantic Ocean, Ayon Island, Baffin Bay, Baffin Island, Barents Sea, Beaufort Sea, Boothia Peninsula, Chukchi Sea, Circle of latitude, Clarence Islands, Crown Prince Frederik Island, Davis Strait, Degree (angle), Disko Island, Earth, East Siberian Sea, Equator, Europe, Finnmark, Fury and Hecla Strait, Greenland Sea, Gulf of Boothia, Gulf of Ob, Jakobshavn Glacier, James Ross Strait, Kara Sea, Karlsøya, Troms, Kågen, King William Island, Larsen Sound, Murray Maxwell Bay, North America, Northwest Territories, Norwegian Sea, Nunavut, Nuorgam, Nuussuaq Peninsula, Parry Peninsula, Prime meridian, Rebbenesøya, Reinøya, Troms, Ringvassøy, Skorpa, Troms, Steensby Inlet, Sullorsuaq Strait, ..., Summer solstice, Sun, Torsukattak Fjord (Disko Bay), Troms, True north, Vaygach Island, Victoria Island (Canada), Victoria Strait, Winter solstice, Yamal Peninsula, 69th parallel north, 71st parallel north. Expand index (12 more) »

Alaska

Alaska (Alax̂sxax̂) is a U.S. state located in the northwest extremity of North America.

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Amundsen Gulf

Amundsen Gulf is a gulf located in Canada's Northwest Territories, between Banks Island and Victoria Island and the mainland.

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Arctic

The Arctic is a polar region located at the northernmost part of Earth.

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Arctic Ocean

The Arctic Ocean is the smallest and shallowest of the world's five major oceans.

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Asia

Asia is Earth's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the Eastern and Northern Hemispheres.

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Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's oceans with a total area of about.

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Ayon Island

Ayon Island is an island in the coast of Chukotka in the East Siberian Sea.

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Baffin Bay

Baffin Bay (Inuktitut: Saknirutiak Imanga; Avannaata Imaa; Baie de Baffin), located between Baffin Island and the southwest coast of Greenland, is a marginal sea of the North Atlantic Ocean.

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Baffin Island

Baffin Island (ᕿᑭᖅᑖᓗᒃ, Qikiqtaaluk, Île de Baffin or Terre de Baffin), in the Canadian territory of Nunavut, is the largest island in Canada and the fifth largest island in the world.

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Barents Sea

The Barents Sea (Barentshavet; Баренцево море, Barentsevo More) is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean, located off the northern coasts of Norway and Russia divided between Norwegian and Russian territorial waters.

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Beaufort Sea

The Beaufort Sea (Mer de Beaufort) is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean, located north of the Northwest Territories, the Yukon, and Alaska, west of Canada's Arctic islands.

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Boothia Peninsula

Boothia Peninsula (formerly Boothia Felix, Inuktitut Kingngailap Nunanga) is a large peninsula in Nunavut's northern Canadian Arctic, south of Somerset Island.

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Chukchi Sea

Chukchi Sea (p) is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean.

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Circle of latitude

A circle of latitude on Earth is an abstract east–west circle connecting all locations around Earth (ignoring elevation) at a given latitude.

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Clarence Islands

The Clarence Islands are a Canadian Arctic island group in the Nunavut Territory.

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Crown Prince Frederik Island

Crown Prince Frederik Island (Île du Prince-Héritier-Frederik) is an island in Nunavut, Canada.

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Davis Strait

Davis Strait (Détroit de Davis) is a northern arm of the Labrador Sea.

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Degree (angle)

A degree (in full, a degree of arc, arc degree, or arcdegree), usually denoted by ° (the degree symbol), is a measurement of a plane angle, defined so that a full rotation is 360 degrees.

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Disko Island

Disko Island (Qeqertarsuaq, Diskoøen) is a large island in Baffin Bay, off the west coast of Greenland.

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Earth

Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life.

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East Siberian Sea

The East Siberian Sea (r) is a marginal sea in the Arctic Ocean.

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Equator

An equator of a rotating spheroid (such as a planet) is its zeroth circle of latitude (parallel).

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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Finnmark

Finnmark (italic; Finnmark; Фи́ннмарк, Fínnmark) is a county ("fylke") in the extreme northeastern part of Norway.

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Fury and Hecla Strait

Fury and Hecla Strait is a narrow (from) channel of water located in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada.

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Greenland Sea

The Greenland Sea is a body of water that borders Greenland to the west, the Svalbard archipelago to the east, Fram Strait and the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Norwegian Sea and Iceland to the south.

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Gulf of Boothia

The Gulf of Boothia is a body of water in Nunavut, Canada.

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Gulf of Ob

The Gulf of Ob (also known as Ob Bay) (О́бская губа́, Obskaya guba) is a bay of the Arctic Ocean, located in Northern Russia at the mouth of the Ob River.

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Jakobshavn Glacier

Jakobshavn Glacier (Sermeq Kujalleq (in Greenlandic) and the Jakobshavn Isbræ (in Danish)), is a large outlet glacier in West Greenland.

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James Ross Strait

James Ross Strait, an arm of the Arctic Ocean, is a channel between King William Island and the Boothia Peninsula in the Canadian territory of Nunavut.

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Kara Sea

The Kara Sea (Ка́рское мо́ре, Karskoye more) is part of the Arctic Ocean north of Siberia.

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Karlsøya, Troms

Karlsøya is an island in the municipality of Karlsøy in Troms county, Norway.

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Kågen

Kågen (Gávvir) is an island in the municipality of Skjervøy in Troms county, Norway.

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King William Island

King William Island (Île du Roi-Guillaume; previously: King William Land; Inuktitut: Qikiqtaq) is an island in the Kitikmeot Region of Nunavut, which is part of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.

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Larsen Sound

Larsen Sound is an Arctic waterway in the Kitikmeot Region, Nunavut, Canada.

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Murray Maxwell Bay

Murray Maxwell Bay (formerly: Murray Maxwell Inlet; Inuktitut: Tasiujaq) is an uninhabited waterway in Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada.

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North America

North America is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere; it is also considered by some to be a northern subcontinent of the Americas.

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Northwest Territories

The Northwest Territories (NT or NWT; French: les Territoires du Nord-Ouest, TNO; Athabaskan languages: Denendeh; Inuinnaqtun: Nunatsiaq; Inuktitut: ᓄᓇᑦᓯᐊᖅ) is a federal territory of Canada.

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Norwegian Sea

The Norwegian Sea (Norskehavet) is a marginal sea in the Arctic Ocean, northwest of Norway.

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Nunavut

Nunavut (Inuktitut syllabics ᓄᓇᕗᑦ) is the newest, largest, and northernmost territory of Canada.

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Nuorgam

Nuorgam is a village in the Utsjoki municipality in the region of Lapland, Finland.

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Nuussuaq Peninsula

Nuussuaq Peninsula (old spelling: Nûgssuaq) is a large (180x48 km) peninsula in western Greenland.

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Parry Peninsula

The Parry Peninsula on the north coast of Canada's Northwest Territories is bounded on the west by Franklin Bay, on the north by Amundsen Gulf, and on the east by Darnley Bay.The nearest settlement is Paulatuk.

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Prime meridian

A prime meridian is a meridian (a line of longitude) in a geographic coordinate system at which longitude is defined to be 0°.

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Rebbenesøya

Rebbenesøya (Ruobbá) is an island in Troms county, Norway.

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Reinøya, Troms

Reinøya is an island in the municipality of Karlsøy in Troms county, Norway.

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Ringvassøy

Ringvassøya (Ráneš) is a large island in Troms county, Norway.

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Skorpa, Troms

Skorpa (Skárfu) is an uninhabited island in the municipality of Kvænangen in Troms county, Norway.

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Steensby Inlet

Steensby Inlet is a waterway in Nunavut's Qikiqtaaluk Region.

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Sullorsuaq Strait

Sullorsuaq Strait (old spelling: Suvdlorssuaq, Vaigat) is a strait on the western coast of Greenland.

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Summer solstice

The summer solstice (or estival solstice), also known as midsummer, occurs when one of the Earth's poles has its maximum tilt toward the Sun.

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Sun

The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System.

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Torsukattak Fjord (Disko Bay)

Torsukattak is a fjord in western Greenland.

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Troms

Troms (italic; Tromssa) is a county in Northern Norway.

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True north

True north (also called geodetic north) is the direction along Earth's surface towards the geographic North Pole.

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Vaygach Island

Vaygach Island (Vajgač) is an island in the Arctic Sea between the Pechora Sea and the Kara Sea.

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Victoria Island (Canada)

Victoria Island (or Kitlineq) is a large island in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago that straddles the boundary between Nunavut and the Northwest Territories of Canada.

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Victoria Strait

Victoria Strait is a strait in northern Canada that lies in Nunavut off the mainland in the Arctic Ocean.

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Winter solstice

The winter solstice (or hibernal solstice), also known as midwinter, is an astronomical phenomenon marking the day with the shortest period of daylight and the longest night of the year.

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Yamal Peninsula

The Yamal Peninsula (полуо́стров Яма́л) is located in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug of northwest Siberia, Russia.

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69th parallel north

The 69th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 69 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane, in the Arctic.

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71st parallel north

The 71st parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 71 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane, in the Arctic.

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70 degrees north, 70° northern latitude, Latitude 70 degrees N.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/70th_parallel_north

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