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Definition of Arctic ocean

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

Definition of Arctic ocean

1. Proper noun. The smallest of the five oceans of the Earth, on and around the North Pole, between the continents of Asia, Europe and North America. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Arctic Ocean

Literary usage of Arctic ocean

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1901)
"[Aprils, DRIFT CASKS IN THE arctic ocean. BY HENRY G. BRYANT. (Read April S, 1902.) Among the many notable sessions of this venerable Society, perhaps none ..."

2. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1884)
"Nelson's Birds of Bering Sea and the arctic ocean.*—The late Mr. GR Gray, who had a habit of literal exactitude in handling the names of birds, ..."

3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1881)
"... in Southwestern Virginia, by C. Lewis. Note on an engraved disk from Guatemala, by Mr. Dubois. CRUISE OF THE CORWIN IN BEHRING SEA AND THE arctic ocean. ..."

4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1907)
"The existence of an Antarctic continent and an arctic ocean is specially associated with the presence of this harmonic, and the disproportion of the ..."

5. The Physical Geography of the Sea by Matthew Fontaine Maury (1856)
"THE OPEN SEA IN THE arctic ocean. The Habit of Whalemen, $ 473.—Right Whales can not cross the Equator, 475.—An under Current into the Polar Basin, 478. ..."

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