Review of Arctic fox. Life at the top of the world, by Gary Hamilton

• Published in: Polar Research
• Main Author: Ims, Rolf A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Norwegian Polar Institute 2009
• Subjects: Arctic; Fridtjof; North Pole; Arctic Fox; Fridtjof Nansen; Polar Research
• Online Access: https://polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/2838; https://doi.org/10.3402/polar.v28i2.6126

The Arctic fox is the only truly Arctic species among the terrestrial carnivorous mammals of the world. It is distributed across the circumpolar Arctic region. Like polar bears, Arctic foxes regularly traverse the pack ice of the polar basin, a fact that astonished Fridtjof Nansen during his attempt...