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Compare Arctic Ocean (2001) - Europa Island (2003)

Compare Arctic Ocean (2001) z Europa Island (2003)

 Arctic Ocean (2001)Europa Island (2003)
 Arctic OceanEuropa Island
Airports - 1 (2002)
Airports - with unpaved runways - total: 1


914 to 1,523 m: 1 (2002)
Area total:
14.056 million sq km

note:
includes Baffin Bay, Barents Sea, Beaufort Sea, Chukchi Sea, East Siberian Sea, Greenland Sea, Hudson Bay, Hudson Strait, Kara Sea, Laptev Sea, Northwest Passage, and other tributary water bodies
total: 28 sq km


land: 28 sq km


water: 0 sq km
Area - comparative slightly less than 1.5 times the size of the US about 0.16 times the size of Washington, DC
Background The Arctic Ocean is the smallest of the world's five oceans (after the Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, and the recently delimited Southern Ocean). The Northwest Passage (US and Canada) and Northern Sea Route (Norway and Russia) are two important seasonal waterways. A sparse network of air, ocean, river, and land routes circumscribes the Arctic Ocean. A French possession since 1897, the island is heavily wooded; it is the site of a small military garrison that staffs a weather station.
Climate polar climate characterized by persistent cold and relatively narrow annual temperature ranges; winters characterized by continuous darkness, cold and stable weather conditions, and clear skies; summers characterized by continuous daylight, damp and foggy weather, and weak cyclones with rain or snow tropical
Coastline 45,389 km 22.2 km
Country name - conventional long form: none


conventional short form: Europa Island


local long form: none


local short form: Ile Europa
Dependency status - possession of France; administered by a high commissioner of the Republic, resident in Reunion
Disputes - international some maritime disputes (see littoral states) claimed by Madagascar
Economy - overview Economic activity is limited to the exploitation of natural resources, including petroleum, natural gas, fish, and seals. no economic activity
Elevation extremes lowest point:
Fram Basin -4,665 m

highest point:
sea level 0 m
lowest point: Indian Ocean 0 m


highest point: unnamed location 24 m
Environment - current issues endangered marine species include walruses and whales; fragile ecosystem slow to change and slow to recover from disruptions or damage; thinning polar icepack NA
Flag description - the flag of France is used
Geographic coordinates 90 00 N, 0 00 E 22 20 S, 40 22 E
Geography - note major chokepoint is the southern Chukchi Sea (northern access to the Pacific Ocean via the Bering Strait); strategic location between North America and Russia; shortest marine link between the extremes of eastern and western Russia; floating research stations operated by the US and Russia; maximum snow cover in March or April about 20 to 50 centimeters over the frozen ocean; snow cover lasts about 10 months wildlife sanctuary
Irrigated land - 0 sq km (1998 est.)
Land boundaries - 0 km
Land use - arable land: 0%


permanent crops: 0%


other: 100% (mangrove forests and woodlands) (1998 est.)
Legal system - the laws of France, where applicable, apply
Location body of water between Europe, Asia, and North America, mostly north of the Arctic Circle Southern Africa, island in the Mozambique Channel, about one-half of the way from southern Madagascar to southern Mozambique
Map references Arctic Region Africa
Maritime claims - exclusive economic zone: 200 NM


territorial sea: 12 NM
Military - note - defense is the responsibility of France
Natural hazards ice islands occasionally break away from northern Ellesmere Island; icebergs calved from glaciers in western Greenland and extreme northeastern Canada; permafrost in islands; virtually ice locked from October to June; ships subject to superstructure icing from October to May NA
Natural resources sand and gravel aggregates, placer deposits, polymetallic nodules, oil and gas fields, fish, marine mammals (seals and whales) NEGL
Population - no indigenous inhabitants


note: there is a small French military garrison and a few meteorologists; visited by scientists (July 2003 est.)
Ports and harbors Churchill (Canada), Murmansk (Russia), Prudhoe Bay (US) none; offshore anchorage only
Terrain central surface covered by a perennial drifting polar icepack that averages about 3 meters in thickness, although pressure ridges may be three times that size; clockwise drift pattern in the Beaufort Gyral Stream, but nearly straight-line movement from the New Siberian Islands (Russia) to Denmark Strait (between Greenland and Iceland); the icepack is surrounded by open seas during the summer, but more than doubles in size during the winter and extends to the encircling landmasses; the ocean floor is about 50% continental shelf (highest percentage of any ocean) with the remainder a central basin interrupted by three submarine ridges (Alpha Cordillera, Nansen Cordillera, and Lomonosov Ridge) low and flat
Waterways - none
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