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  • An Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica) flies over the northern tip of Grímsey, the northernmost point in Iceland. The northern tip of the island lies within the Arctic Circle. The Arctic Ocean is visible in the background. The towering cliffs of Grímsey are used by thousands of nesting birds in the summer, including Atlantic puffins, gulls and fulmars.
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  • Numerous icebergs are visible as the ice breaks up on James Bay in early summer. James Bay is located at the southern end of the Hudson Bay in northern Canada. Both bodies of water extend from the Arctic Ocean.
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  • An arctic tern (Sterna paradisaea) guards the two eggs in her nest in Iceland's West Fjords. The arctic tern migrates farther than any other known animal, spending the southern hemisphere summer in the ocean off Antarctica and breeding during the northern hemisphere summer near the Arctic Circle. One study found the average arctic tern flies 44,300 miles (70,900 km) per year.
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  • An arctic tern (Sterna paradisaea) flies with a capelan it caught in Jökulsárlón, Iceland (Glacier Lagoon). Arctic terns nest throughout Iceland during the summer. The bird migrates farther than any other. The arctic tern is found off South Africa and in the Antarctic Ocean during summer in the southern hemisphere.
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  • Water from the Greenland Sea, considered part of the Arctic Ocean, washes into Öxarfjörður, Iceland, exposing part of a black sand beach that was covered with snow.
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  • An Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica), surrounded by summer wildflowers, rests on a bluff above the Atlantic Ocean on the island of Grímsey, Iceland. Tens of thousands of puffins breed on Iceland's cliffs during the summer. They spend the rest of the year at sea. The island of Grímsey, which straddles the Arctic Circle, is the northernmost inhabited Icelandic territory.
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  • The winter sea ice on James Bay in Canada begins to break up in late spring. James Bay is located at the southern end of the Hudson Bay in northern Canada. Both bodies of water extend from the Arctic Ocean.
    JamesBay_SeaIce_6133.jpg
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