DeCS

Descriptor English:

Arctic Regions

Descriptor Spanish:

Regiones Árticas

Spanish from Spain

Descriptor	regiones árticas
Scope note:	Comprende el océano Ártico y las islas dentro del mismo y adyacentes. Incluye Punta Barrow, Alaska, la mayor parte del Distrito de Franklin en Canadá, dos terceras partes de Groenlandia, Svalbard, la Tierra de Francisco José, Laponia, Nueva Zembla y norte de Siberia del.

Descriptor Portuguese:

Regiões Árticas

Descriptor French:

Régions arctiques

Entry term(s):

Arctique
Régions de l'Arctique

Tree number(s):

Z01.208

RDF Unique Identifier:

https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001110

Scope note:

The Arctic Ocean and the lands in it and adjacent to it. It includes Point Barrow, Alaska, most of the Franklin District in Canada, two thirds of Greenland, Svalbard, Franz Josef Land, Lapland, Novaya Zemlya, and Northern Siberia. (Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p66)

Annotation:

note spelling: arctic: neither spelled nor pronounced "artic"

Allowable Qualifiers:

EH ethnologie
EP épidémiologie

DeCS ID:

1114

Unique ID:

D001110

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Date Established:

1966/01/01