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Beaufort Sea

American  
[boh-fert] / ˈboʊ fərt /

noun

  1. a part of the Arctic Ocean, NE of Alaska.


Beaufort Sea British  

noun

  1. part of the Arctic Ocean off the N coast of North America

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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These changes are likely affecting salinity, nutrient cycles, and food webs in the Beaufort Sea.

From Science Daily • Apr. 4, 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

A mother bear's inability to successfully raise cubs contributed to the 40 per cent decline of the Southern Beaufort Sea subpopulation between 2000-2010.

From Science Daily • Oct. 18, 2023

That declining habitat will lead to a 4% decline in polar bear cub survival in the southern Beaufort Sea, which is north of Alaska and Canada’s Yukon and Northwest Territories, Bitz said.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 31, 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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