A great information site about the region is the Arctic Circle page , which offers everything anyone needs to know about the Arctic's natural resources, peoples and history.
Discussion groups help provide a sense of how people feel about the area.
And the Smithsonian Institution's Arctic Studies Center offers, in typical Smithsonian fashion, an array of fascinating and reliable information. Yahoo's Northwest Arctic page is good for basic information. And for maps, try the collection kept by the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program . The site includes travelogues and also is home to a very loud sound file of Arctic wind blowing - loud enough to weed out the dilettantes. Landscape of the Imagination , a project by the National Library of Canada that gives its take on how the barren Arctic landscape has inspired artists over the centuries.