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The Arctic Landscape

They are formed from thousands and thousands of years of compacted snowfall.When a glacier reaches the land’s edge, its massive tip breaks off into the sea to become an iceberg. Many of theArctic’s glaciers are located inGreenland,where ice covers nearly 80 percent of the land’s surface. Though “south” is a relative term when talking about the Arctic, the further in that direction one goes, the more the land-

Though the Arctic is a very cold region, at its southern edges are vast boreal forests filled with evergreen trees and wildlife.