Arctic animals
The animals of the far north: polar bears, walruses, narwhals and belugas at sea, and Arctic foxes, muskox, reindeer and lemmings on the tundra.
Most of them also live further south for part of the year or part of their range, so they appear on other lists too.
15 animals, A to Z.
- Arctic foxArctic regions right around the Northern Hemisphere.
- BelugaArctic and sub-Arctic waters.
- BumblebeeMostly the Northern Hemisphere, north to Greenland; also South America and North Africa; introduced to New Zealand and Tasmania.
- GrouseTemperate and subarctic North America, Europe and Asia, as far north as 83°N.
- HalibutThe North Atlantic (Labrador and Greenland to the Barents Sea, Biscay and Virginia), the North Pacific and Bering Sea, and the Arctic Ocean.
- LemmingIn or near the Arctic across North America, Europe and Asia, including Norway and Siberia.
- MuskoxGreenland, Arctic Canada and Alaska; reintroduced to Siberia, and introduced to Norway, from where some spread to Sweden.
- NarwhalArctic waters.
- Polar bearArctic sea ice and coasts around the North Pole: Canada, Alaska, Greenland, Russia and Norway’s Svalbard.
- PuffinNorth Atlantic coasts: Iceland, Norway, Britain, Ireland, the Faroes, Greenland and Canada, south to Maine and Brittany.
- RavenAcross the Northern Hemisphere, the most widespread of all crows.
- ReindeerCircumpolar: the Arctic, subarctic, tundra and mountain regions of North America, Europe and Asia.
- SealOceans worldwide, mostly at sea but with a few species in fresh water, such as the Baikal seal.
- WalrusShallow Arctic seas over the continental shelves.
- WolverineNorthern forests and tundra of the Northern Hemisphere: Canada, Alaska, the Nordic countries, Russia and Siberia.
How each answer is decided: How we answer. Every animal, in one list: All animals.