Arctic

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This article is about the Arctic. You may be looking for the Sparse Arctic or the Arctic Spires.

The Arctic regions are large biomes characterized by rugged, rocky terrain on the seafloor and icebergs on the surface.

There are two regions, located to the east and west.

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East Arctic= <infobox layout="stacked">

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</format> <label>Coordinates</label> <group> <label>Point of Interest</label> </group> <label>Music</label> </infobox> The East Arctic is located in the northeast, bordering the Lilypad Islands, Purple Vents, and Sparse Arctic. Various points of interest can be found on the icebergs here, with Marguerit's Greenhouse having been built on one, and another having a crashed Satellite built by The Architects. While the two Arctic regions share a similar seafloor, a dormant caldera can be found here, scarring the nearby landscape with small trenches. In the center of the caldera is a Ground Sampler. <tabber> Resources=

• Copper Ore
• Diamond
• Galena Outcrop
• Gold
• Ion Cube
• Large Copper Deposit
• Lead
• Limestone Outcrop
• Lithium
• Magnetite
• Pengwing Egg
• Ruby
• Titan Holefish Egg
• Titanium

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• Arctic Peeper
• Arctic Ray
• Boomerang
• Chelicerate
• Glow Whale
• Hoopfish
• Pengling
• Pengwing
• Pinnacarid
• Rockgrub
• Snowstalker
• Titan Holefish

|-| Flora=

• Blue Scrub Bush
• Fevered Pepper Tree
• Frost Anemone
• Frost Vase Plant
• Honeycomb Fungus
• Redwort
• Violet Beau

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Gallery

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  The Satellite iceberg

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  Marguerit Maida's icberg

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  Pengwings on an ice floe

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  Life under the Arctic sea

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  A Glow Whale reaching for the surface

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  An Ice Fruit Plant growing under an iceberg

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  The dormant caldera

|-| West Arctic= <infobox layout="stacked">

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</format> <label>Coordinates</label> <group> <label>Point of Interest</label> </group> <label>Music</label> </infobox> The West Arctic is located in the southwest, and borders the Arctic Kelp Forest, Glacial Connection, Glacial Bay, Thermal Spires, Tree Spires, and World Edge. The West Arctic's Northern reaches are dominated by a sprawling collection of lively icebergs, underwater vegetation being much more common in the West Arctic than its eastern counterpart. The southern portion of the biome lacks the floating icebergs of the north but is infested with multiple blooms of Jellyfish under the waves. Large, rocky formations cover the seafloor of the West Arctic, including large boulders and large hill ranges. the sea floor also hosts small pockets of Flora littered around the biome, especially in the northern portion. A Snowfox equipped with a Snowfox Hop Module is required to explore the full extent of the surface portion of the West Arctic. <tabber> Resources=

• Copper Ore
• Creepvine Sample
• Diamond
• Gold
• Limestone Outcrop
• Magnetite
• Pengwing Egg
• Silver Ore
• Titanium
• Titan Holefish Egg

|-| Fauna=

• Arctic Peeper
• Arctic Ray
• Bladderfish
• Boomerang
• Hoopfish
• Jellyfish
• Pengling
• Pengwing
• Pinnacarid
• Rockgrub
• Titan Holefish

|-| Flora=

• Creepvine
• Fevered Pepper Tree
• Hardy Cave Bush
• Honeycomb Fungus
• Pouch Bulb
• Redwort Relative
• Thermal Lily
• Violet Beau
• Violet Snowcone

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Gallery

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  The northern underwater portion during the day

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  The northern underwater portion during the night

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  An Iceberg

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  Underneath an Iceberg in the biome

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  The area leading to the major Ice Canyon in the biome

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  The Major Ice Canyon in the biome from an Underwater view

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  A part of the Ice Canyon

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  A storm in one section of the Ice Canyon

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  An Arctic Ray in the Ice Canyon's underwater portion

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  A part of a cave in one of the icebergs

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  Another part of an iceberg cave, with a bladderfish

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  An ore fissure in an above-water part of a cave

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  A southern portion of the biome, with jellyfish

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  An Aurora Borealis in the biome

Concept Art

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  Ice formation concepts #4 - by Dima Pertsula

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  Ice formation concepts #5 - by Dima Pertsula

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  Concept art for an unspecified area within the Arctic - by Pat Presley

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  Concept art for an unspecified area within the Arctic - by Pat Presley