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Arctic Ocean

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Also known as Northern Ocean, Arctic Sea, Tartar Sea, Tartar Ocean, Sea of Tartary, Ocean of Tartary, Tartaric Sea, Glacial Sea

smallest, shallowest, coldest, and northernmost of the world's major oceans

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The Arctic Ocean is an ocean and adjacent sea located in international waters. It is named after the north and has an elevation of 0 above sea level. The body of water covers an area of 14,056,000 and holds a volume of 18,750,000. Its vertical depth reaches 5,550, with the lowest point identified as Molloy Deep.

The Arctic Ocean is part of the Atlantic Ocean and contains Greenland and Spitsbergen. It connects with the Bering Strait, Greenland Sea, and Labrador Sea. Inflows include the Kukpuk River and Hood River. The basin includes Russia, Norway, Iceland, and Greenland. Parts of the ocean include the Lincoln Sea, Wandel Sea, Hudson Strait, and Davis Strait.

Synthesized by Vinony from 24 facts across 3 sources: Wikidata, Vinony graph, Geo. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

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The Arctic Ocean, with borders as delineated by the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO), including Hudson Bay (some of which is south of 57°N latitude, off the map) and all other marginal seas.

The Arctic Ocean is the smallest and shallowest of the world's five oceanic divisions. It spans an area of approximately 14,060,000 km (5,430,000 sq mi) and is the coldest of the world's oceans. The International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) recognizes it as an ocean, although some oceanographers call it the Arctic Mediterranean Sea or North Polar Sea. It has also been described as an estuary of the Atlantic Ocean. It is also seen as the northernmost part of the all-encompassing world ocean.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Arctic Ocean” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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