Arctic

Arctic
Location:	North Pole
First appearance:	Trace Memory
Appearances:	see list

The Arctic was the region around the Earth's North Pole and opposite Antarctica and the South Pole.

History

Early history

Around 3000 BC, the Ice Warrior Skaldak was frozen in the ice beneath the North Pole. (TV: Cold War)

Circa 1000 BC, a Vondraxian orb was buried under the Arctic. (PROSE: Trace Memory)

20th century

In 1943, a Royal Navy vessel which Mike Smith's father was serving on was lost in the Arctic Sea while running weapons to the Russians. (PROSE: Remembrance of the Daleks)

In 1953, archaeologist Edgar Nelson-Stanley found the Vondraxian orb buried under the Arctic. (PROSE: Trace Memory)

On 21 July 1966, Polly Wright and Ben Jackson were kidnapped by Tobias Harmer and Angela Leamann and taken to an island in the furthest reaches of the Arctic Circle and interrogated for their knowledge of the Doctor. After their escape in a submarine, Ben called the navy, who were unable to find any evidence of the island. (AUDIO: Sleeper Agents)

In 1983, a Soviet submarine beneath the North Pole picked up the frozen Skaldak and thawed him out. After being attacked with a cattle prod upon awakening, Skaldak tried to launch a nuclear missile from the submarine, knowing that it would cause retaliation in the form of mutually assured destruction. An Ice Warrior ship rescued Skaldak. (TV: Cold War)

21st century

A map of the Arctic Circle. (GAME: Blood of the Cybermen)

On 4 May 2010, a GSO geological dig uncovered a Cyber-ship and Cybermen who had crashed in the Arctic ten thousand years before. The Cybermen were reactivated and almost escaped with the help of expedition members converted into Cyberslaves, but were stopped by the Eleventh Doctor. (GAME: Blood of the Cybermen)

Later history

Several cities in the Arctic, such as New Glasgow and New Montreal, were created in the 26th century to control overcrowding of the Earth's population. Families outside the Arctic cities were restricted to one child. (TV: Frontier in Space)

Some time before Earth Death in the year 5,000,000,000, a part of the Arctic, or the whole Arctic became a desert; Cassandra O'Brien.Δ17's mother came from there. (TV: The End of the World)