#arctic geography

• Anadyr — An Arctic port town and the administrative center of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug in the Russian Federation, structurally recognized as the easternmost settlement with town status in the country, located at the mouth of the homonymous river on the Bering Sea coast. The correlated hydronym designates a major Siberian river over one thousand kilometers long that traverses frozen mountain plateaus, playing a vital role in subpolar transport and the Arctic tundra ecosystem.
• Baffin Island — An international geographical proper name designating a large Arctic island belonging to Canada (Baffin Island), the largest in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, as well as the sea located between this island and Greenland (Baffin Bay). The area is characterized by an extreme polar climate, deep fjords, and a frost-adapted biodiversity, inhabited predominantly by Inuit communities.