Websites on the Arctic or Antarctic regions, and on Polar Research
- See also: polar charities
The most comprehensive lists of polar links are maintained by the Polar Meterology Group at the Byrd Polar Research Center (USA) as Polar Pointers; and as the National Snow and Ice Data Center's ColdLinks (USA) who we acknowledge as partial sources for this list.
- Alfred Wegener Institute, the German national centre for Polar and Marine research (Germany)
- webpage on Sea Ice as an Antarctic marine habitat
- The Antarctic Circle
- Antarctic Digital Database
- The Antarctican, a magazine for people and science in the Antarctic region. Supported by the Antarctic Co-operative Research Centre at the University of Tasmania (Australia)
- Antarctica New Zealand from The New Zealand Antarctic Institute.
- Antarctic Place-Names Committee
- Antarctic Protected Areas Information Archive
- The Arctic Antarctic Research Center maintains satellite images of the polar regions and is at the University of California, San Diego (USA)
- Arctic Centre (University of Lapland) is located in the Arktikum House, a science centre and museum (Finland)
includes- Finnbarents provides information on the economic development, business climate, infrastructure, and natural resources of North West Russia and the Baltic States
- Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law
- Polar Web is a collaborative project of the Polar Libraries Colloquy
- The Arctic Council (Secretariat in Finland).
- The Arctic Is web site (Iceland).
- Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP) (website based in Norway)
- Arctic Region Supercomputing Centre, University of Alaska Fairbanks (USA)
- Arctic Research Consortium of the United States (ARCUS), Fairbanks, Alaska (USA)
- includes the Guide Arctic Information and Data (1996)
- Arctic System Science (ARCSS) Data Coordination Center, Boulder, Colorado (USA)
- Arctic Studies Center at the Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC has excellent information for schools, and on peoples of the North (USA)
- University of the Arctic (website in Finland)
- Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition
- Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS)
- Australian Antarctic Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) (Australia)
- Australian Antarctic Division has several excellent pages of links to Antarctic websites. (Australia)
- Byrd Polar Research Center, Ohio State University (USA)
- C-CORE, the Centre for Cold Ocean Resources Engineering, at Memorial University of Newfoundland. Includes the Ocean Engineering Information Centre (OEIC). (Canada
- COCOREES - Collaborative Collection Management Project for Russian and East European Studies - UK research resources for Russian and East European Studies
- Circumpolar Universities Association based in (Finland)
- Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, US Army Corps of Engineers (USA)
- CoolAntarctica a non-profit site with excellent factual information and photographs on Antarctica, its animals, weather, sea ice and environment. (UK)
- Council of Managers of National Antarctic Programs (COMNAP). The Secretariat is currently in Hobart, Australia.
- Destination Antartica from Lonely Planet (Australia)
- Polar research at the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources
- Heureka - The Finnish Science Centre (Finland)
- Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (Canada)
- Institute of Antarctic and Southern Ocean Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, (Australia)
- Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado (USA)
- Institut for Eskimologi, University of Copenhagen (Denmark)
- Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee is part of the National Science Foundation (USA)
- International Arctic Research Center
- International Arctic Science Committee (webpage based in Norway)
- International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators (webpage based in USA)
- International Northern Sea Route Program (INSROP) 1993-1999 (website in Norway)
- International Permafrost Association (webpage based in UK)
- International Union for Circumpolar Health, based in Alaska (USA)
- International Whaling Commission, Histon, Cambridge (UK)
- The James Caird Society
- Kids Helping the Environment
- Meteorological Service of Canada, Environment Canada (Canada) includes
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center have a page on WAIS (West Antarctic Ice Sheet) (USA)
- NASA Polar Oceanography Group at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California - on the remote sensing of polar regions (USA).
- National Institute of Polar Research (Japan)
- The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London, has an extensive section on polar exploration (UK)
- The Nordic Council (Secretariat in Denmark)
- Norsk Polarinstitutt, Norwegian Ministry of the Environment (Norway).
- The Northern Forum, is based at Alaska Pacific University, Anchorage (USA)
- Office of Polar Programs is part of the National Science Foundation (USA)
- Polar Research Board is at the National Academy of Sciences (USA)
- Polar Research and Cold Regions Technology, an excellent Web server listing Web sites relating to polar regions (Sweden)
- Polar Science Center, Applied Physics Laboratory at the University of Washington (USA)
- Polar Worlds, on-line magazine of subjects relating to polar regions
- Quest for the Pole: Historic Antarctic Land Journeys, created by PBS (USA)
- Russian State Museum of Arctic and Antarctic, in St. Petersburg (Russia)
- Stefansson Arctic Institute, Akureyri (Iceland)
- Webcams, Pictures and Maps of the Svalbard Archipelago
- Time in Antarctica (local time, 24 hour clock)
- UK Polar Network (UKPN), the UK branch of the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS)
- United Nations Environment Programme GRID-Arendal, (Norway) which includes
- University of the Arctic (website in Finland)
- WWF Arctic Programme, based in Norway (World Wide Fund for Nature).
International websites of interest
- European Network for Research in Global Change (website based in Iceland)
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (USA)
- Project Gutenberg - cover-to-cover books digitally republished, including The South Pole by Roald Amundsen
- United Nations Environment Programme
- Virtual Library Museums pages from The International Council of Museums.
- The World Data Center System (website based in USA)