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maritime region
Close ✕Arctic Ocean
An ocean basin almost entirely enclosed by land: Eurasia, North America and Greenland ring it, and it connects to the rest of the world ocean through the wide Fram Strait, the shallow…
90.0, 0.0 · regional · permanent feature; perennial ice cover since at least the mid-Pliocene, contracting sharply since 1979
On the world
- A place in: Life at the Poles · 4 places
Lines mark links and orders the records assert; no path between any two places is recorded, and none is drawn.
Connections · 3 of 7
- is located in of Arctic Amplification — The effect is defined for the Arctic and has no Antarctic equivalent, because the southern hemisphere has a high ice-covered continent where the north has an ocean.
- is located in of Arctic Fox (Vulpes lagopus) — It is circumpolar on the tundra ringing the basin and on the sea ice itself - a land mammal that commutes onto a frozen ocean, which the southern system makes impossible.
- is located in of Inuit — Inuit occupy the Arctic coasts of Alaska, Canada, Greenland and Chukotka; the northern polar system has a resident population and the southern one has none.
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