Beaufort Sea
Americannoun
noun
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Between 1996 and 2023, the landfast ice season shortened by 57 days in the Chukchi Sea and 39 days in the Beaufort Sea.
From Science Daily • Mar. 27, 2026
One day in March, the black metal sail of a 360-foot attack sub armed with Tomahawk cruise missiles and torpedoes punched through the dense ice of the Beaufort Sea during Operation Ice Camp.
From New York Times • Apr. 30, 2024
They used hydrophones to monitor bowhead whales in the western Beaufort Sea and Chukchi Plateau from 2008 to 2022.
From Science Daily • Feb. 21, 2024
The range of the Pacific walrus includes the northern Bering and Chukchi seas but the walruses are occasionally observed in areas like the Beaufort Sea, according to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 4, 2023
The barren slope stretches for three hundred miles from the Brooks Range to the Arctic Ocean, and for more than eight hundred miles from the Chukchi to the Beaufort Sea.
From "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George
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