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/ˈɑrktɪk ˈoʊʃən/ Listen

Arctic Ocean

noun

Ice covered waters surrounding the North Pole; mostly covered with solid ice or with ice floes and icebergs.

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"Arctic Ocean" Quotes from Famous Books

... of the earth, by means of the attraction of the sun, you will now see. "From Commander Fillmore, of the Arctic Shade and the Committee on Bulkheads and Dams, I have just received the following by cable telephone: 'The Arctic Ocean is now in condition to be pumped out in summer and to have its average depth increased one hundred feet by the dams in winter. We have already fifty million square yards of windmill turbine surface in ...

— A Journey in Other Worlds • J. J. Astor

... Algeria American Samoa Andorra Angola Anguilla Antarctica Antigua and Barbuda Arctic Ocean Argentina Armenia Aruba Ashmore and Cartier Islands Atlantic Ocean Australia Austria Azerbaijan Bahamas Bahrain Baker Island Bangladesh Barbados Bassas da India Belarus Belgium Belize Benin Bermuda Bhutan Bolivia ...

— The 2000 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... August 1850, no tidings had been received of Captain McClure and the Investigator, till the time that Captain Kellet, who last saw him in the west, had once more made his way into the Arctic Ocean from the east, and was now commencing his long winter imprisonment at Bridport Inlet, Melville Island, in September 1852. The only time that exploring parties can travel is during daylight in the early autumn or in the spring. The spring is most fitted for crossing the Frozen Sea, before the ...

— Our Sailors - Gallant Deeds of the British Navy during Victoria's Reign • W.H.G. Kingston

... not come to trade," said Meriwether Lewis. "We play a larger game. I know that the men of the Northwest Company have found the Arctic Ocean—you are welcome to it until we want it—we do not want it now. I know you have found the Pacific somewhere above the Columbia—we do not want what we have not bought or found for ourselves, and ...

— The Magnificent Adventure - Being the Story of the World's Greatest Exploration and - the Romance of a Very Gallant Gentleman • Emerson Hough

... Eurasia, which borders about half the circuit of the Arctic Ocean, is undivided by topographic barriers or boundaries. It ...

— Commercial Geography - A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges • Jacques W. Redway

... bid us good-bye at the train, the Kid and I yell exultantly, "All aboard for the Arctic Ocean ...

— The New North • Agnes Deans Cameron

Words linked to "Arctic Ocean" : Greenland Sea, Laptev Sea, Greenland, Baffin Island, Kalaallit Nunaat, Kara Sea, Svalbard, Barents Sea, New Siberian Islands, Beaufort Sea, Chukchi Sea, ocean, Gronland