Table of Contents
43 relations: Adélie penguin, Alberta, Alexander Archipelago, Andøya, Andes, Baranof Island, Biome, Brachyptery, Chichagof Island, Chum salmon, Continental shelf, Coronation Island (Alaska), Cypress Hills (Canada), Endemism, Forrester Island (Alaska), Galaxias, Glacier Bay Basin, Ground beetle, Haida Gwaii, Hot spring, Last Glacial Maximum, Laurentide ice sheet, Macquarie Island, Nothofagus menziesii, Nunatak, Patagonian Ice Sheet, Petrel, Pine, Pinus contorta, Pleasant Island (Alaska), Prince of Wales Island (Alaska), Proglacial lake, Pseudochorthippus parallelus, Refugium (population biology), Saskatchewan, Southern elephant seal, Southern river otter, Spruce, Temperate climate, Tsuga mertensiana, Victoria Land, Warren Island (Alaska), Wisconsin glaciation.
Adélie penguin
The Adélie penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae) is a species of penguin common along the entire coast of the Antarctic continent, which is the only place where it is found.
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Alberta
Alberta is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.
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Alexander Archipelago
The Alexander Archipelago (Архипелаг Александра) is a long archipelago (group of islands) in North America lying off the southeastern coast of Alaska.
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Andøya
Andøya is the northernmost island in the Vesterålen archipelago, situated about inside the Arctic Circle.
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Andes
The Andes, Andes Mountains or Andean Mountain Range are the longest continental mountain range in the world, forming a continuous highland along the western edge of South America.
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Baranof Island
Baranof Island is an island in the northern Alexander Archipelago in the Alaska Panhandle, in Alaska.
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Biome
A biome is a distinct geographical region with specific climate, vegetation, and animal life.
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Brachyptery
Brachyptery is an anatomical condition in which an animal has very reduced wings.
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Chichagof Island
Chichagof Island (Остров Чичагова), or Shee Kaax, is an island in the Alexander Archipelago of the Alaska Panhandle.
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Chum salmon
The chum salmon (Oncorhynchus keta), also known as dog salmon or keta salmon, is a species of anadromous salmonid fish from the genus Oncorhynchus (Pacific salmon) native to the coastal rivers of the North Pacific and the Beringian Arctic, and is often marketed under the trade name silverbrite salmon in North America.
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Continental shelf
A continental shelf is a portion of a continent that is submerged under an area of relatively shallow water, known as a shelf sea.
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Coronation Island (Alaska)
Coronation Island is located in Alaska off the northwest coast of Prince of Wales Island, south of Kuiu Island, and west of Warren Island.
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Cypress Hills (Canada)
The Cypress Hills are a geographical region of hills in southwestern Saskatchewan and southeastern Alberta, Canada.
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Endemism
Endemism is the state of a species only being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere.
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Forrester Island (Alaska)
Forrester Island (Haida: Gasḵúu) is an island in the U.S. state of Alaska.
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Galaxias
Galaxias is a genus of small freshwater fish in the family Galaxiidae, and are frequently referred to as the galaxiids.
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Glacier Bay Basin
Glacier Bay Basin in southeastern Alaska, in the United States, encompasses the Glacier Bay and surrounding mountains and glaciers, which was first proclaimed a U.S. National Monument on February 25, 1925, and which was later, on December 2, 1980, enlarged and designated as the Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve under the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, covering an area of.
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Ground beetle
Ground beetles are a large, cosmopolitan family of beetles, the Carabidae, with more than 40,000 species worldwide, around 2,000 of which are found in North America and 2,700 in Europe.
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Haida Gwaii
Haida Gwaii (X̱aaydag̱a Gwaay.yaay / X̱aayda gwaay, literally "Islands of the Haida people"), also known as the Queen Charlotte Islands, is an archipelago located between off the northern Pacific coast of Canada.
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Hot spring
A hot spring, hydrothermal spring, or geothermal spring is a spring produced by the emergence of geothermally heated groundwater onto the surface of the Earth.
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Last Glacial Maximum
The Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), also referred to as the Last Glacial Coldest Period, was the most recent time during the Last Glacial Period where ice sheets were at their greatest extent 26,000 and 20,000 years ago. Examples of refugia and Last Glacial Maximum are ice ages.
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Laurentide ice sheet
The Laurentide ice sheet was a massive sheet of ice that covered millions of square miles, including most of Canada and a large portion of the Northern United States, multiple times during the Quaternary glacial epochs, from 2.58 million years ago to the present. Examples of refugia and Laurentide ice sheet are ice ages.
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Macquarie Island
Macquarie Island is an island in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, about halfway between New Zealand and Antarctica.
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Nothofagus menziesii
Nothofagus menziesii, commonly known as silver beech (tawhai, tahina), is a tree of the southern beech family endemic to New Zealand.
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Nunatak
A nunatak (from Inuit nunataq) is the summit or ridge of a mountain that protrudes from an ice field or glacier that otherwise covers most of the mountain or ridge.
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Patagonian Ice Sheet
Map showing the extent of the Patagonian Ice Sheet in the Strait of Magellan area during the last glacial period. Selected modern settlements are shown with yellow dots. Sea level was much lower than shown here. The Patagonian Ice Sheet was a large elongated and narrow ice sheet centered in the southern Andes that existed during the Llanquihue glaciation.
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Petrel
Petrels are tube-nosed seabirds in the bird order Procellariiformes.
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Pine
A pine is any conifer tree or shrub in the genus Pinus of the family Pinaceae.
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Pinus contorta
Pinus contorta, with the common names lodgepole pine and shore pine, and also known as twisted pine, and contorta pine, is a common tree in western North America.
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Pleasant Island (Alaska)
Pleasant Island (Lingít: Wanachích) is the largest island in the Icy Strait between northern Chichagof Island and the mainland of the Alaska Panhandle.
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Prince of Wales Island (Alaska)
Prince of Wales Island (Tlingit: Taan) is one of the islands of the Alexander Archipelago in the Alaska Panhandle.
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Proglacial lake
In geology, a proglacial lake is a lake formed either by the damming action of a moraine during the retreat of a melting glacier, a glacial ice dam, or by meltwater trapped against an ice sheet due to isostatic depression of the crust around the ice.
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Pseudochorthippus parallelus
Pseudochorthippus parallelus (often known by its synonym Chorthippus parallelus), the meadow grasshopper, is a common species of grasshopper in the tribe Gomphocerini.
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Refugium (population biology)
In biology, a refugium (plural: refugia) is a location which supports an isolated or relict population of a once more widespread species.
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Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan is a province in Western Canada, bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, to the northeast by Nunavut, and to the south by the United States (Montana and North Dakota).
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Southern elephant seal
The southern elephant seal (Mirounga leonina) is one of two species of elephant seals.
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Southern river otter
The southern river otter (Lontra provocax), or South American river otter, is an otter species that lives in the southern regions of Argentina and Chile, including parts of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego.
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Spruce
A spruce is a tree of the genus Picea, a genus of about 40 species of coniferous evergreen trees in the family Pinaceae, found in the northern temperate and boreal (taiga) regions of the Earth.
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Temperate climate
In geography, the temperate climates of Earth occur in the middle latitudes (approximately 23.5° to 66.5° N/S of Equator), which span between the tropics and the polar regions of Earth.
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Tsuga mertensiana
Tsuga mertensiana, known as mountain hemlock, is a species of hemlock native to the west coast of North America, found between Southcentral Alaska and south-central California.
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Victoria Land
Victoria Land is a region in eastern Antarctica which fronts the western side of the Ross Sea and the Ross Ice Shelf, extending southward from about 70°30'S to 78°00'S, and westward from the Ross Sea to the edge of the Antarctic Plateau.
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Warren Island (Alaska)
Warren Island is an island in the Alexander Archipelago of southeastern Alaska, United States.
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Wisconsin glaciation
The Wisconsin glaciation, also called the Wisconsin glacial episode, was the most recent glacial period of the North American ice sheet complex, peaking more than 20,000 years ago. Examples of refugia and Wisconsin glaciation are ice ages.
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References
Also known as Examples of Refugia in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.