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Arctic Ocean

[ahrk-tik oh-shuhn, ahr-tik] / ˈɑrk tɪk ˈoʊ ʃən, ˈɑr tɪk /
NOUN
Arctic region
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Adding to the dangers, an increasingly open Arctic Ocean invites extreme waves.

From The Wall Street Journal

Sixty B-52s, loaded with hydrogen bombs, circled the outside edges of the Soviet Union—above the Arctic Ocean north of Greenland, above the Mediterranean Sea, above the western coast of Alaska.

From Literature

Unlike most other oceans where cyanobacteria dominate nitrogen fixation, the Arctic Ocean relies on an entirely different group of bacteria known as non-cyanobacteria.

From Science Daily

"After a few years at sea I've grown more scared of the Arctic Ocean, but I've also come to respect and value it for all its power and beauty."

From BBC

When the Arctic Ocean has less than 1 million square kilometers of ice, scientists say the Arctic is ice free.

From Science Daily