On July 29, 1881, Navy Lt. Cmdr. George Washington De Long raised the U.S. flag on a desolate, snow-capped rocky island in the far northern Arctic Ocean. “I take possession of it in the name of ...

The Northwest Passage connects the Atlantic and the Pacific via the Arctic Ocean along the northernmost part of North America. It’s long been sought as a shorter alternative shipping route ...

The Arctic ocean floors just got a little less mysterious now that a team of international researchers has compiled the most detailed map of the Arctic seabed to date.

Shifting borders . Click for full image ... countries can claim rights to seabed resources in the Arctic Ocean, ... Redrawing the Arctic map: The new north. Nature 478, 172–173 (2011). https ...

Winchell Delano on his upcoming 5,200-mile cross-continental quest to rediscover North America. Skip ... of Mexico to the Arctic Ocean over a period of nine ... at the U.S.-Canadian border.

The European ice sheet spanned a distance of more than 5,000 kilometres (3,100 miles), from Ireland and Scotland via Scandinavia to the Eastern rim of the Kara Sea (Arctic Ocean). In North America ...