Contrairement à l’Antarctique, qui est un vaste continent inhabité entouré d’un océan, l’Arctique est un espace maritime entouré de terres sur lesquelles vivent des populations depuis des millénaires et qui appartiennent à des pays souverains.
Unlike the Antarctic, which is a vast and inhabited continent surrounded by an ocean, the Arctic is a maritime space surrounded by land which has been inhabited by people for thousands of years and which belongs to sovereign countries.