Ocean
Arctic Ocean
The Arctic is the smallest of the five ocean basins, covering about 6.1 million square miles — roughly one and a half times the size of the United States.
Source: oceanservice.noaa.gov
NOAA records its average depth as 3,953 feet, and notes that it stays almost completely ice-covered for most of the year.
Source: oceanservice.noaa.gov
Find Arctic Ocean on the mapWhere it is
On the Atlas Quest map, the Arctic Ocean label sits at 81.6° N, 145.1° W, in the Northern and Western Hemispheres.
Coordinates, names: Natural Earth, public domain.
Nearby places
The closest other places with pages here, measured between map label points:
- Denali — about 2,100 km south
- Greenland — about 2,300 km north-east
- Bering Sea — about 2,900 km south-west
- Aleutian Islands — about 3,200 km south-west
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