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Arctic Ocean

The Arctic Ocean is located in the Northern Hemisphere. Ask questions about this icy polar ocean here.

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What three continents does the Arctic Ocean touch?

The Arctic Ocean touches North America, Europe and Asia.

What is the smallest gulf in the world?

The Gulf of Paria (Golfo de Paria in http://www.answers.com/topic/spanish-language) is a 7800 http://www.answers.com/topic/kilometre-wordnet2 (3000 http://www.answers.com/topic/mile) shallow inland sea between the island of http://www.answers.com/topic/trinidad (Republic of http://www.answers.com/topic/trinidad-and-tobago) and the east coast of http://www.answers.com/topic/venezuela. This sheltered body of water is considered to be one of the best natural harbours on the http://www.answers.com/topic/atlantic-ocean coast of the http://www.answers.com/topic/the-americas. It was originally named Golfo de la Ballena (the Gulf of the Whale) by http://www.answers.com/topic/christopher-columbus, but the 19th Century http://www.answers.com/topic/whaling industry eliminated whales from the area and populations have never recovered. The Gulf of Paria is connected to the http://www.answers.com/topic/caribbean-sea to the north through the http://www.answers.com/topic/bocas-del-drag-n (or Dragons' Mouth) between the http://www.answers.com/topic/paria-peninsula of Venezuela and the Chaguaramas Peninsula, and to the http://www.answers.com/topic/columbus-channel to the south through the http://www.answers.com/topic/boca-del-serpiente (Serpent's Mouth) between the http://www.answers.com/topic/cedros-trinidad-and-tobago Peninsula and the http://www.answers.com/topic/orinoco Delta. Please see related link:

Gulf of Paria

What ocean does the equator pass through?

The equator passes through The Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans.

What are shallow parts of the sea or ocean called?

Shallow parts of the sea or ocean are called shoals or shallows. They are areas where the water depth is relatively shallow, making them potentially hazardous for navigation.

What caused the ocean to remove sediment from land?

The movement of tides, waves, and currents in the ocean can remove sediment from land through erosion and transport. Storm events, tidal action, and longshore currents can all contribute to the removal of sediment from land and its transportation into the ocean. Human activities like dredging and beach nourishment can also impact sediment removal processes.

What is the smallest living creature?

if you want the smallest living animal, it's the amoeba, its classified under protozoa in the animal kingdom

How many square feet the Arctic Ocean?

According to Frozen Plant.....500 million sq ft.

What 2 continents have the Arctic Ocean as their western border?

The Arctic Ocean straddles the earth's northern pole. No continent has the Arctic Ocean as a western border; two or three continents have the Arctic Ocean as a northern border: North America and Eurasia (or Europe and Asia).

What is the highest temperature ever recorded in the Arctic?

It has gotten to around 100 degrees in interior sections.

Which ocean does not touch Asia?

The only ocean that does not touch Asia is the Southern Ocean. Asia has long coastlines on the Arctic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans, and technically has a short coast on the Atlantic Ocean via the Mediterranean Sea.

What do ocean-ocean convergence produce?

Parallel belts of folded mountains and volcanic mountains

Where is the Arctic Ocean not found in the hemisphere?

the ocean that is not found in the northern hemisphere is the antartica ocean

What is the name of the large country in the north that touches the arctic ocean and is almost all ice?

North America, Asia and Europe. The ocean lies in the Northern Hemisphere and sits predominately north of the Arctic Circle

What dolphins live in the Arctic Ocean?

none of them they live in every ocean except the arctic ocean