Paul Nicklen Tales of ice bound wonderlands

The meridian 3 east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, Europe, Africa, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.

The meridian 8 east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Europe, Africa, the Atlantic Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.

Chukchi Sea () is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean.

The Laptev Sea () is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean.

To the north, the Bering Strait connects the Pacific with the Arctic Ocean.

You just get to think of it as a population of frozen partons.

A narrower Nares Strait connects Baffin Bay with the Arctic Ocean.

After five days of crossing the Drake Passage, we have finally arrived at Antarctica.

There are several oil related environmental risks specific to the Arctic Ocean.

Jan Mayen is a volcanic island in the Arctic Ocean and a part of the Kingdom of Norway.

It is bounded on the east by the Pacific Ocean, on the south by the Indian Ocean and on the north by the Arctic Ocean.

In its western part, the Baffin Island Current brings the Arctic waters to the south.

Diving under the Antarctic ice to get close to the much feared leopard seal, photographer Paul Nicklen found an extraordinary new friend. Share his hilarious, passionate stories of the polar wonderlands, illustrated by glorious images of the animals who live on and under the ice.

In addition, Finland received Petsamo, with its ice free harbour on the Arctic Ocean.

The Scotia Sea is a sea that is located in both the Southern Ocean and the South Atlantic Ocean.

As one component of the interconnected global ocean, it is connected in the north to the Arctic Ocean, to the Pacific Ocean in the southwest, the Indian Ocean in the southeast, and the Southern Ocean in the south (other definitions describe the Atlantic as extending southward to Antarctica).

An Indian Navy team comprising 11 members successfully completed an expedition to the Arctic pole in 2006.

Victoria Strait is a strait in northern Canada that lies in Nunavut off the mainland in the Arctic Ocean.

Prince Gustav Adolf Sea, an arm of the Arctic Ocean, is located in Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada.

The sea opens into the Arctic Ocean to the north, and into the Byam Martin Channel and Maclean Strait to the south.

Located in the Arctic Ocean, it is the 31st largest island in the world and Canada's seventh largest island.

On October 15, 2010, Russian scientists opened a floating polar research station in the Chuckchi Sea at the margin of the Arctic Ocean.

This is my studio in Brooklyn. This is the Arctic Ocean, and the butchering of the second whale, seven days later.

In September, the sea ice cover on the Arctic Ocean melted all the way back to the record low level recorded in September 2007.

Along with the Pechora River to the east, it drains most of Northwest Russia into the Arctic Ocean.

If the Arctic Ocean becomes ice free in summer, the melting and the snowfall will probably increase sharply.

An enormous Chinese Embassy has been built in Reykjavik with an eye to improving China s intelligence about future developments in the Arctic Ocean.

Aside from keeping each other safe and warm, protesters often help those passing by to make it through the crowds and below zero Ukrainian winter weather.

Lincoln Sea is a body of water in the Arctic Ocean, stretching from Cape Columbia, Canada, in the west to Cape Morris Jesup, Greenland, in the east.

As the University of Laval s Louis Fortier puts it, we are three quarters of the way to ice free summers in the Arctic Ocean.

Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean.

Almost completely surrounded by Eurasia and North America, the Arctic Ocean is partly covered by sea ice throughout the year (and almost completely in winter).

Shackleton's original plan had been to explore the Beaufort Sea sector of the Arctic Ocean, but this was abandoned after the Canadian government withheld financial support.

The only native land mammal when humans arrived was the Arctic fox, which came to the island at the end of the ice age, walking over the frozen sea.

The conflicts in Transdnistria and the South Caucasus are usually called frozen conflicts, because not much has happened since they began in the early 1990 s.

It is bounded by Asia on the north, on the west by Africa, on the east by Australia, and on the south by the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, by Antarctica).

Because much of the Arctic Ocean is shallow and located on continental shelves, the bordering countries are scrambling to stake claims to exclusive economic zones under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.

The drama more accurately, a tragedy playing out in the North is the rapid disappearance of the polar ice cap, the Arctic Ocean s defining feature.

The Somov Sea was named in honor of Russian oceanologist and polar explorer Mikhail Somov, who between 1955 and 1957 was the commander of the first Soviet Antarctic Expedition.

On land, oil fields in Alaska and gas fields in northern Russia have been producing hydrocarbons on a large scale for many years, but the estimated reserves under the Arctic Ocean are much larger.

The US National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) uses satellite data to provide a daily record of Arctic sea ice cover and the rate of melting compared to an average period and specific past years.

Planetary scientist Carolyn Porco shows images from the Cassini voyage to Saturn, focusing on its largest moon, Titan, and on frozen Enceladus, which seems to shoot jets of ice.

Expressing its deep concern over the vulnerability of the environment and the fragile ecosystems of the polar regions, including the Arctic Ocean and the Arctic ice cap, particularly affected by the projected adverse effects of climate change,

Although the deepest point inside of the sea is 4846 meters, depths down to 5570 meters have been measured in the Molloy Deep of the Fram Strait which connects the sea to the Arctic Ocean on the north.