Animals of the Arctic: Award-winning Thinkquest site offers stories, facts, and pictures of the animals that live in this icy region.
Arctic Exploration Online: Information on a scientific mission of the US Coast Guard icebreaker Polar Star, its crew, its discoveries, Arctic peoples, and the northern environment. Includes an image, sound, and video archive.
Arctic Ocean: Provides basic facts about the world's smallest ocean, including geography, economic significance, and transportation.
Arctic Region: Offers basic facts about the region, along with pictures of wildlife.
Arctic Region: Offers a look at life in the northern-most parts of Alaska.
Arctic: The White Cap of the Earth: Examines the region's geography, climate, plant and animal life, and natural resources. Includes interactice quizzes.
Canada's Polar Life: Information about environments, geography, organisms, and research, along with photographs.
EnchantedLearning.com: Arctic Animal: Provides a simple description of the region and a look at the animals native to it. Includes printable coloring pages.
Exactly Where is the Arctic Region?: Examines where the Arctic ends and more temperate regions begin.
Inuit Life in Nunavik: Offers a glimpse into life in Canada's coldest territory. Includes photos of the land itself, sketches of winter clothing, and profiles of native animals.
Live from the North Pole: Arctic photographs from a North Pole web cam maintained by the U.S. National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.
MSN Encarta: North Pole: Concise look at the area and its history.
Polar Passage: Follow four men in a 19-foot open boat as they brave unforgiving Arctic waters and seek to circumnavigate the polar ice cap.
PolarHusky.com: Join 31 Polar Huskies and six educators/explorers on a 3,000-mile adventure as they attempt to transect the Arctic.
The Arctic: Offers a brief overview of the northern regions.
The Arctic: Learn about life within the Arctic Circle in northern Canada. Includes description about the land, plants, animals, weather, seas, and the Inuit residents.
The Arctic Website: Dedicated to the history, science, and adventure of the Arctic, Alaska, and the 1898 Gold Rush. Includes images, maps, and wildlife, environmental, and glacier information.