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) | |
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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 |