Figure 1-1: Regions for
the IPCC Working Group II Third Assessment Report. Note
that regions in which small island states are located include the Pacific, Indian,
and Atlantic Oceans, and the Caribbean and Mediterranean Seas. The boundary between
Europe and Asia runs along the eastern Ural Mountains, River Ural, and Caspian
Sea. For the polar regions, the Arctic consists of the area north of the Arctic
Circle, including Greenland; the Antarctic consists of the Antarctic continent,
together with the Southern Ocean south of ~58°S.