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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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Sub-hunting is difficult in part because seas are vast: If the Arctic Ocean were rescaled to the volume of Russia’s largest submarine, that same submarine would be the size of a couple grains of sand.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 11, 2026

Greenland, located just north of eastern Canada, is a crucial gateway to the Arctic Ocean.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 13, 2026

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 • Oct. 21, 2025

Samples and measurements were collected at 13 sites across the central Arctic Ocean, including regions off northeast Greenland and north of Svalbard.

From Science Daily • Oct. 21, 2025

Similar ecological disasters occurred on almost every one of the thousands of islands that pepper the Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Arctic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari