The Arctic

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Term Paper Title	The Arctic
# of Words	855
# of Pages (250 words per page double spaced)	3.42

The Arctic

The Artic is a region at the upper most tip
of the Northern Hemisphere. The Artic includes the area
around Greenland, USSR, Canada and Alaska. Much of the
Artic circle is permanently frozen ice. The Artic is a pristine
environment, clean and void of human interference. However
as humans move into these areas and begin to extract what
ever they can be balance can be tipped, resulting in pollution
and destruction of the environment. Climate. The Artic
winters much longer than the Summer. In the winter the sun
never rises and in the summer it never sets. The average
temperature for the Artic is zero degrees of less. Industry
and the Artic. There was once a time when the land of the
Artic Circle was considered useless and only hospitable to
those native to it. However once vast quantities of oil and
fish had been found there was a rush of interest in the land.
Fishing in the Artic has occurred for thousands of years but
in recent years man has been fishing the Artic; in greater
numbers and taking more fish. Professional fishermen are
taking all kinds of fish as well as whales and seals. In some
areas fishermen have become so efficient at their job that
quotas have needed to be put on to limit or stop the capture
of certain animals. There are many mineral deposits within
the Artic Circle. In Russia: nickel, iron ore, apatite,
diamonds, gold, tin, coal, mica, and tungsten. In Sweden:
iron ore. In Greenland: lead, zinc, molybdenum and cryolite.
Spitsbergen: coal. Canada: uranium, copper, nickel, lead,
zinc, tungsten and iron ore. The digging out of minerals
would inevitably disturb the natural habitat as well as the
environment there would be a great cost to maintain the site.
Industry that is designed to process various minerals have
waste products that would be most unwelcome in the Artic.
A good example of this is the pollution that has arisen as a
result of the smelting of metals in the Artic. It is for this
reason that there is very little industry in the Artic. However
Russia, Canada, Greenland and Iceland have several small
scale manufacturing plants. The largest industry in the Artic is
oil. The rush began in 1968 when a large oil field was
discovered, there was a great deal of protest but the
development went ahead. Oil extracted from the felid makes
its way to Port Valdez via a 1300 kilometre pipeline.
Although steps were taken to limit the pipelines affect on the
environment it still disrupts the mig...

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