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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

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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

In April, they'd head north through the Chukchi Sea and into the Beaufort Sea off the Canadian and Alaska coasts, head west to the Russian Chukotka Peninsula, and finally go back south around mid-November.

From Science Daily Feb. 21, 2024

The recordings revealed that the whales shifted their winter departure time from the western Beaufort Sea 45 days later in 2022 than they had in 2008.

From Science Daily Feb. 21, 2024

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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