Beaufort Sea

American  

[boh-fert] / ˈboʊ fərt /

noun

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

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Beaufort Sea British  

noun

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

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Example Sentences

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

Scientists studied microscopic organisms in four environments -- open ocean, river mouths, coasts and under sea ice -- in the Beaufort Sea off northern Canada.

From Science Daily • Nov. 26, 2024

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

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