This 1599 map by Dutch navigator Willem Barentsz shows Spitsbergen — the main island in Norway’s Svalbard archipelago — mapped for the first time. Labelled as Het Nieuwe Land, meaning “the new land” ...

The Geological Survey of Canada has published, for the first time, 1,222 comprehensive maps of the Arctic, ... Bathurst Island in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, for example, ...

More sampling is needed particularly in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, northern Greenland, northern Taimyr, and central and eastern Siberia. Global warming is driving rapid environmental change ...

Google set out to take users of its free online mapping service on an Arctic adventure with help from an Inuit community in the Canadian tundra. Photo illustration shows people on a dogsled crossing a ...

Cambridge Bay - Google set out to take users of its free online mapping service on an Arctic adventure with help from an Inuit community in the Canadian tundra. Prime Minister Stephen Harper joined ...