Beaufort Sea
Americannoun
noun
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The team examined a region of Alaska's North Slope roughly the size of Wisconsin, where hundreds of rivers and streams drain into 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
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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