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. 2020 Jan 16;15(1):e0227189. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0227189

Table 1. Seasonal variation in Arctic visitation, estimated from Flickr data (2004 to 2017).

Overall number of photos (% of all photos) Summer (% of all photos for that region) Winter (% of all photos for that region) Number of photo-unit-days (PUD) Summer (% of total PUD for that region) Winter (% of total PUD for that region)
Whole Arctic 805,684 70.2 29.8 115, 775 65.2 34.8
Iceland 377,817 (46.9) 70.0 30.0 51,500 66.4 33.6
Alaskan Arctic 150,325 (18.7) 76.0 24.0 21,903 67.0 33.0
Norwegian Arctic 122,387 (15.2) 68.2 31.8 20,779 63.7 36.3
Canadian Arctic 43,466 (5.4) 68.4 31.6 7,713 66.8 33.2
Finnish Arctic 22,164 (2.8) 38.7 61.3 3,716 43.2 56.8
Faroe Islands 20,259 (2.5) 78.1 21.9 2,226 68.0 32.0
Greenland 19,944 (2.5) 91.0 9.0 1,952 78.8 21.2
Swedish Arctic 18,303 (2.3) 53.5 46.5 2,809 56.9 43.1
Svalbard & Jan Mayen 16,282 (2.0) 71.3 28.7 1,321 72.6 27.4
Russian Arctic 13,321 (1.7) 64.2 35.8 2,228 60.7 39.3