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This is a list of the largest deserts in the world by area. ... Arctic Desert: ... 5,366,820: Eastern Europe Northern America Northern Asia Northern Europe:
Arctic Desert – the second largest "desert" in the world, though it consists of frozen ocean, land ice, and tundra, so (like the rest of this section) not a desert climate in any conventional sense North American Arctic – a large tundra in Northern America. Greenland – mostly covered by land ice, like Antarctica
The Arctic desert ecoregion (WWF ID: PA1101) is a terrestrial ecoregion that covers the island groups of Svalbard, Franz Josef Land, Severny Island and Severnaya Zemlya in the Arctic Ocean, above 75 degrees north latitude. The region is covered with glaciers, snow, and bare rock in a harshly cold environment.
Devon Island, in the Canadian North, is the world's largest uninhabited island. Northeast Greenland National Park, which is the world's largest terrestrial protected area, has had a census population of 0 for many years since the only mine in the region closed. Nevertheless parts of this remote area can see seasonal use: 31 people and about 110 ...
The word Arctic comes from the Greek word ἀρκτικός (arktikos), "near the Bear, northern" [4] and from the word ἄρκτος (arktos), meaning bear. [5] The name refers either to the constellation known as Ursa Major, the "Great Bear", which is prominent in the northern portion of the celestial sphere, or to the constellation Ursa Minor, the "Little Bear", which contains the celestial ...
It is one of the largest in Europe and the 17th-largest in the world. ... The Arctic desert on Nordaustlandet High alpine tundra in Hurrungane.
The ten largest deserts [7 ... 5,482,651 2 Arctic Desert ... produce solar energy to power Europe and the Middle East. Deserts are increasingly ...
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