Greenland Sea

[ green-luhnd see, -land ]

noun

1. a sea that lies northeast of Greenland and north of Iceland, variously defined as being part of either the Arctic Ocean or the North Atlantic Ocean: connected to the Arctic Ocean via the Fram Strait, site of the Molloy Deep.

Greenland Sea

noun

1. the S part of the Arctic Ocean, off the NE coast of Greenland

Word History and Origins

Origin of Greenland Sea¹

First recorded in 1900–05

Example Sentences

"But we have none of us ever been on the Greenland Sea before," said Bjarne.

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