Arctic Ocean
smallest, shallowest, coldest, and northernmost of the world's major oceans
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Summary
Arctic Ocean is an ocean[1]. It draws 13,250 Wikipedia views per month (ocean category, ranking #5 of 6).[2]
Key Facts
- Located in the administrative territorial entity: international waters[3]
- Instance of: adjacent sea[4]
- Named after: north[5]
- Inflows: Kukpuk River[6], Wolf River[7], Hood River[8]
- Basin country: Russia[9], Norway[10], Iceland[11], Greenland[12], Canada[13], United States[14]
- Part of: Atlantic Ocean[15]
- Commons category: Arctic Ocean[16]
- Has part(s): Lincoln Sea[17], Wandel Sea[18], Hudson Strait[19], Davis Strait[20], Hudson Bay[21], Baffin Bay[22], Barents Sea[23], Laptev Sea[24], East Siberian Sea[25], Beaufort Sea[26], Northwest Passage[27], Kara Sea[28], Scoresby Sound[29], Rijpfjorden[30]
- Coordinate location: 79.13864, -3.23897[31], 90, 0[32]
- Topic's main category: Category:Arctic Ocean[33]
- Topic's main Wikimedia portal: Portal:Arctic Ocean[34]
- Category for the water basin: Category:Drainage basins of the Arctic Ocean[35]
- Described by source: Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[36], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[37], Limits of Oceans and Seas, 3rd edition[38], The Nuttall Encyclopædia[39], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[40], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[41], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 6[42], The New Student's Reference Work[43]
- Topic has template: Template:Arctic Ocean[44]
- Category for people who died here: Q27688757[45]
- Lowest point: Molloy Deep[46]
- Elevation above sea level: 0[47]
- Area: 14,056,000[48]
- Volume as quantity: 18,750,000[49]
- Connects with: Bering Strait[50], Greenland Sea[51]
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Works and Contributions
Things named for Arctic Ocean include Articuno[52], a flying-type Pokémon[53] and 1031 Arctica[54], an asteroid[55].
Why It Matters
Arctic Ocean has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[56] It is known by 66 alternative names across languages and contexts.[57]
Entities named for it include Articuno[52], a flying-type Pokémon[53] and 1031 Arctica[54], an asteroid[55].