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. 2017 Oct 26;46(Suppl 3):486–496. doi: 10.1007/s13280-017-0959-x

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Fig. 5 — The Bering Strait and Chukchi Sea region. Blue and green hatched areas show bowhead and fin whale ranges (IUCN Red List), hydrocarbon blocks are shown in blue and pink, while the orange and pink/black lines show the North West Passage and Northern Sea Route shipping routes, respectively. Tan coloured areas show potential hydrocarbon provinces of the USGS Circum-Arctic Resource Assessment (Gautier et al. 2009). The September 2012 sea-ice extent is shown by the hatched area outlined in pale blue