Arctic Ocean
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The Arctic Ocean is the ocean around the North Pole. The most northern parts of Eurasia and North America are around the Arctic Ocean. Thick pack ice and snow cover most of this ocean. An icebreaker or a nuclear-powered submarine can use the Arctic Ocean to go between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.
The ocean's area is about 14.056 million sq km, which is the smallest of the world's four oceans, and it has 45,389km of coastline. The central surface covered by icepack about 3m in thickness. The biology there is quite special. Some endangered animals there include walruses , whales and polar bears.
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