Arctic Ocean

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Arctic Ocean

The waters surrounding the North Pole between North America and Eurasia. The smallest ocean in the world, it is covered by pack ice through much of the year.

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Arctic Ocean

(Placename) the ocean surrounding the North Pole, north of the Arctic Circle. Area: about 14 100 000 sq km (5 440 000 sq miles)

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Arc′tic O′cean

an ocean N of North America, Asia, and the Arctic Circle. ab. 5,540,000 sq. mi. (14,350,000 sq. km).

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Arctic Ocean - ice covered waters surrounding the North Pole; mostly covered with solid ice or with ice floes and icebergs

Svalbard - a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean

Greenland, Gronland, Kalaallit Nunaat - the largest island in the world; lies between the North Atlantic and the Arctic Ocean; a self-governing province of Denmark

Baffin Island - the 5th largest island and the largest island of Arctic Canada; lies between Greenland and Hudson Bay

New Siberian Islands - a group of islands in the Arctic Ocean to the north of Siberia and to the east of the Laptev Sea

Barents Sea - the part of the Arctic Ocean to the north of Norway and Russia

Beaufort Sea - part of the Arctic Ocean to the northeast of Alaska

Chukchi Sea - part of the Arctic Ocean just to the north of the Bering Strait

Greenland Sea - part of the Arctic Ocean to the north of Iceland

Kara Sea - part of the Arctic Ocean to the north of Siberia and to the east of the Barents Sea; icebound most of the year

Laptev Sea - part of the Arctic Ocean to the north of Siberia (between the Taimyr Peninsula and the New Siberian Islands) that is icebound most of the year

Translations

الـمُحِيط الـمُتَجَمِّد الشِّماليّ

Severní ledový oceán

Ishavet

NordpolarmeerNördliches Eismeer

Αρκτικός Ωκεανός

océano Ártico

Pohjoinen jäämeri

océan Arctique

Arktički ocean

Északi-sarki-óceánJeges-tenger

Oceano Artico

北極海

북극해

Noordelijke IJszeeArctische Oceaan

Nordishavet

Morze ArktyczneOcean Arktyczny

Oceano Ártico

Северный Ледовитый океан

Norra ishavetArktiska havet

มหาสมุทรขั้วโลกเหนือ

Kuzey Okyanusu

Bắc Băng Dương

北冰洋

Arctic Ocean

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the Arctic Ocean → l'océan m Arctique

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Arctic Ocean

n the Arctic Ocean → l'Oceano artico

Arctic Ocean

→ الـمُحِيط الـمُتَجَمِّد الشِّماليّ Severní ledový oceán Ishavet Nordpolarmeer Αρκτικός Ωκεανός océano Ártico Pohjoinen jäämeri océan Arctique Arktički ocean Oceano Artico 北極海 북극해 Noordelijke IJszee Nordishavet Morze Arktyczne Oceano Ártico Северный Ледовитый океан Norra ishavet มหาสมุทรขั้วโลกเหนือ Kuzey Okyanusu Bắc Băng Dương 北冰洋

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It was a part of the great system of granite mountains which forms one of the most important and striking features of North America, stretching parallel to the coast of the Pacific from the Isthmus of Panama almost to the Arctic Ocean; and presenting a corresponding chain to that of the Andes in the southern hemisphere.

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It had welded into one compact political mass the whole of North America from the Panama Canal to the Arctic Ocean.

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"Sure," I said, with a grateful nod and an air of certitude that I, too, would hunt whales and be in smashed boats in the Arctic Ocean. And, truly, I registered his advice as singularly valuable information, and filed it away in my brain, where it persists to this day.

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Three years before, they had prospected from the head-reaches of the Koyokuk northward and clear across to the mouth of the Mackenzie on the Arctic Ocean. Here, on the whaleships, they had beheld their last white men and equipped themselves with the last white man's grub, consisting principally of salt and smoking tobacco.

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Several were sailors, but the large majority were miners, culled from all the camps from Mexico to the Arctic Ocean. It was the old and ever-untiring pursuit of gold, and they had come to the Solomons to get it.

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This stream in which he stood was a feeder to the Coppermine River, which in turn flowed north and emptied into Coronation Gulf and the Arctic Ocean. He had never been there, but he had seen it, once, on a Hudson Bay Company chart.

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"Yet limiting the warming to 2 degrees (as proposed under the Paris agreement) may not be sufficient to prevent an ice-free Arctic Ocean."

Arctic May Lose All Its Ice By September, Study Warns

The scientists will conduct sampling and a number of experiments for four projects that are part of the PS20m Changing Arctic Ocean scientific research programme.

Arctic expedition led by Stirling professor; Team will look at organisms key to food chain

On typical world maps, the Arctic Ocean stretches across the top, where it forms a thin blue border around the Northern Hemisphere.

A Change Has Come in the Arctic: A RISE IN RADIUM IN THE OCEAN SIGNALS CHANGES ALONG THE COAST

Caption: DIANE TUFT, Themes and Variations, Arctic Ocean, 84 degrees N, 2015, Color pigment print, 45 x 60 inches