The Arctic
The Arctic is a freezing cold area that is barely within the limits that humans can survive, yet there's one tribe of people that have chosen this freezing cold place as their home: The Inuit. The Arctic is often referred to as the "Frozen land", there is little vegetation in the area. Winters are long and cold, while summers are short and cool. The place is covered in snow nine months of the year and even with these extreme conditions, the Inuit have chosen to live here over 4,000 years. In mid winter the sky is lit with the many colours of the northern lights. It is one of the most remote and harsh places on earth. In the Arctic’s ocean, there are many icebergs; an iceberg is a large floating piece of ice. Certain plants and other vegetation have managed to survive the fierce climate. They look very different than the plants farther south. They twist and bend closer to the ground where the harsh, cold winds can’t blow them over. The Arctic has many animals like seals, whales, walruses, caribou, musk oxen, arctic foxes and polar bears. The experts theorize that the Inuit’s ancestors traveled to the North America on foot on a pathway that once connected Asia and North America 10,000 years ago, this pathway is now covering in water.
In summer, numerous mosquitoes and back flies come to the waterlogged tundra of the arctic. The amount of these pests is so vast that even large animals can lose their lives to the many bites.