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ARCTIC OCEAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Ice covered waters surrounding the North Pole; mostly covered with solid ice or with ice floes and icebergs
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Instance hypernyms:
ocean (a large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere)
Meronyms (parts of "Arctic Ocean"):
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)
