Arctic Archipelago

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Arctic Archipelago

A group of more than 36,000 islands of northern Canada in the Arctic Ocean between North America and Greenland. Baffin Island is the largest; Ellesmere Island is the northernmost.

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Arctic Archipelago - all the islands that lie to the north of mainland Canada and the Arctic Circle

Canada - a nation in northern North America; the French were the first Europeans to settle in mainland Canada; "the border between the United States and Canada is the longest unguarded border in the world"

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It forms most of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago that Canada separated from the Northwest territories in 1999.

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But it is currently unable to monitor and track airborne entries into Canadian airspace around the northern coastal border of the Arctic Archipelago, the report said.

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The team also faced open patches of water in the sea ice, as well as the constant threat of polar bears during their adventure which started on April 15 when the team departed the remote Arctic archipelago of Svalbard.

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The team departed the remote Arctic archipelago of Svalbard in the early hours of April 15.