Arctic

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People call the Arctic the area around the North Pole, it is the point that lies furthest to the north. While the south pole lies on the continent Antarctic, the north pole is only water. This Arctic ocean is frozen throughout the whole year.

It's hard to say exactly were the Arctic is located a lot of researchers think that there is a pacific boarder the Arctic ends right there, were even in July it doesn't get hotter than 10 degrees Celsius that is about as cold as a fall day in Germany. The border doesn't only go through the Pacific Ocean, but also part of north America, and Europa and Asia  

In the Arctic it gets super cold, there is snow almost every were but only in the southern part of the Arctic, the snow and the ice melts away in the summer. There is a small amount of plants in the Arctic and there are also not many animals or humans.

For a long time, people in Europa didn't even know about the Antarctic until around the 19 hundred the people started to venture further north with sleds and boats. In 1909 a group of north Americans claimed that they reached the north pole You cannot prove that this happened though. But then in 1937 a Russian explorer flew to the Arctic and he landed this was the first time that people knew that someone went to the Arctic.  

Global warming is strongly affecting the Arctic; A lot of ice melts there. Because of that the sea level is rising all over the world. A lot of small ice chunks are floating all over the water. Because of that it is a lot harder for ice bears and their cubs to move around freely on the ice. The global warming also affects a lot of other animals.