ARCTIC CIRCLE 3 



River and other smaller streams. Fish Lake, 

 Eighteen miles north of Arcola, is a summer 

 resort, with good boating, bathing and fishing. 

 The town is the center of the Cannington 

 judicial district (Southeastern Saskatchewan), 

 and has the district Land Titles building, 

 erected in 1913, and a courthouse, completed 

 in 1910. Population in 1911, 794; in 1916, 

 estimated. 1.200. P.B.T. 



} ARCTIC LANDS AND SEAS 



desolate northern region. The Arctic Circle 

 just touches the northern headlands of Ice- 

 land, cuts off the southern and narrowest por- 

 tion of Greenland, crosses Fox's Strait, north 

 of Hudson Bay, whence it extends westward 

 to Bering Strait, continuing across Northern 

 Russia, the White Sea and the Scandinavian 

 Peninsula to Iceland. See map accompanying 

 the article ARCTIC LANDS AND SEAS. 



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LANDS AND WATERS OP THE FROZEN NORTH 



ARCTIC CIRCLE. At the North Pole the 

 year is divided into six months of night and 

 six months of day. The Arctic Circle, repre- 

 sented on the globe as a circle twenty-three 

 and one-half degrees distant from the north 

 pole and parallel to the equator, indicates 

 roughly the boundary of this alternate daylight 

 and nightime zone. The name comes from 

 arktos, by which the constellation Great Bear 

 was known to the Greeks (see BEAR, GREAT). 



When the sun reaches the Tropic of Cancer 

 on its northward journey, its rays shine day 

 and night over the whole area between the 

 Arctic Circle and the North Pole. When, how- 

 ever, it reaches the Tropic of Capricorn, 

 twenty-three and one-half degrees from the 

 South Pole, darkness prevails over this same 



ARCTIC, ark' tik, LANDS AND SEAS, bar- 

 ren, inhospitable regions of snow-covered lands 

 and ice-bound seas situated between the Arctic 

 Circle and the North Pole. The name Arctic 

 Ocean is applied collectively to all the gulfs, 

 bays and seas within the Arctic region. The 

 ocean washes the most northerly shores of 

 Europe, Asia and America, is connected with 

 the Pacific Ocean by Bering Strait and with the 

 Atlantic Ocean by Davis Strait, and by a wide 

 passage between Greenland and Norway. It 

 contains numerous islands, the largest of which 

 are Greenland, Spitzbergen, Franz-Josef Land 

 and Baffin Land, although only part of the 

 latter is within the Arctic Circle. To the 

 north of Canada there are the ice-bound islands 

 which constitute the Arctic Archipelago. 



