Arctic race

Arctic race

Arctic race can refer to:
*A racial classification of people by Louis Agassiz, a 19th century Swiss-American zoologist.
*The territorial claims in the Arctic resulted in the early 21st century a series of expeditions to the Arctic area by Russia, Canada, Denmark and the United States.


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