Tundra Location
- The Tundra is located at the top of the world near the North Pole, between 60 and 30 degrees North. It is found in many cities in Canada including: Aklavik, Fort McPherson, Inuvik, Iqaluit, Old Crow, Qausuittuq and Tuktoyaktuk. In Russia, the cities of Anadyr, Dikson, Kahabarovo, Kara, Matochkin Shar, Murmansk, Nordvik, Polyarnyy and Tiksi are all in the tundra. The Norwegian cities of Alta, Bodo, Hammerfest, Harstad, Nesna, Svolvaer, Tramso and Vardo are all in the tundra, as are the cities of Eskifjordur and Saudarkrokur in Iceland, and Etah, Godhavn and Thule in Greenland. The tundra also extends into parts of Lapland, Scandinavia and Siberia, but there are no cities in these places.
- The tundra covers about one fifth of the land surface found on Earth. Tundra is the coldest and driest of all the biomes. The ground is subject to permafrost (land that is permanently frozen), but the surface layer melts in the summer.
- The ecotone (or ecological boundary region) between the tundra and the forest is known as the tree-line or timberline.