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    The Beaufort Sea (/ˈboʊfərt/ BOH-fərt; French: Mer de Beaufort) is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean, located north of the Northwest Territories, Yukon...
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    The Beaufort scale (/ˈboʊfərt/ BOH-fərt) is an empirical measure that relates wind speed to observed conditions at sea or on land. Its full name is the...
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  • of Beaufort (France), a title in the French nobility Beaufort Sea in the Arctic Ocean Beaufort Island, an island in Antarctica's Ross Sea Beaufort, Queensland...
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    Beluga whale (redirect from Sea Canary)
    populations summer in estuaries. Belugas from the Beaufort Sea stock were found to summer along the Eastern Beaufort Sea shelf, Amundsen Gulf and slope regions north...
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    Timor Sea – 610,000 km2 (240,000 sq mi) North Sea – 575,000 km2 (222,000 sq mi) Bellingshausen Sea – 487,000 km2 (188,000 sq mi) Beaufort Sea – 476,000 km2...
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    second-oldest city in South Carolina, behind Charleston. Beaufort is known as the "Queen of the Carolina Sea Islands". The city's population was 13,607 at the...
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    Charles Babbage. Francis Beaufort had a lifelong keen awareness of the value of accurate charts for those risking the seas, as he was shipwrecked at...
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    Sargasso Sea (/sɑːrˈɡæsoʊ/) is a region of the Atlantic Ocean bounded by four currents forming an ocean gyre. Unlike all other regions called seas, it has...
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    the past, Arctic sea-ice would circulate in the Beaufort gyre up to several years, leading to the formation of very thick multi-year sea-ice. Due to warming...
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    of Gulf Canada Resources. After the offshore oil exploration in the Beaufort Sea ended in the early 1990s, she was sold to the Canadian shipping company...
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    Only Marine Nature Reserve (NEIDIN)" (PDF). "Beaufort Sea". Great Soviet Encyclopedia (in Russian). "Sea of Marmara". 25 March 2021. Indian Journal of...
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    The Aral Sea (/ˈærəl/) was an endorheic lake (that is, without an outlet) lying between Kazakhstan to its north and Uzbekistan to its south, which began...
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    Prudhoe Bay. However, only half the basins – such as the Beaufort Sea and the West Barents Sea – have been explored. A 2008 United States Geological Survey...
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    Caspian Sea is the world's largest inland body of water, described as the world's largest lake and usually referred to as a full-fledged sea. An endorheic...
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    Utqiagvik, Alaska (category Beaufort Sea)
    natural hunting place at the base of a peninsula that pokes out into the Beaufort Sea... Yankee whalers sailed here, learning about the bowhead whale from...
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    (400 km) in length and about 93 mi (150 km) across where it meets the Beaufort Sea. The Amundsen Gulf was explored by Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen...
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    of Gulf Canada Resources. After the offshore oil exploration in the Beaufort Sea ended in the early 1990s, she was first leased and then sold to the Canadian...
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    The Mediterranean Sea (/ˌmɛdɪtəˈreɪniən/ MED-ih-tə-RAY-nee-ən) is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost...
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    northeastern foothills of the Brooks Range/British Mountains that face the Beaufort Sea coasts between the Canning River and the Firth River across the Alaska-Yukon...
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  • creator of the Beaufort scale, namesake of the Beaufort Sea Louisa Beaufort (1781–1863), Irish antiquarian, author and artist Duke of Beaufort (England),...
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    southwestern Bering Sea. The group migrates northward in the spring, following openings in the ice, into the Chukchi and Beaufort seas. The whale's range...
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    Alaska, beyond which lies the Beaufort Sea. The Bering Strait forms its southernmost limit and connects it to the Bering Sea and the Pacific Ocean. The principal...
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  • 5 km2 (19.9 sq mi). Yukon–Alaska dispute, Beaufort Sea (Alaska and Yukon) Canada supports an extension into the sea of the land boundary between Yukon and...
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    Tyrrhenian Sea (/tɪˈriːniən, -ˈreɪ-/, tih-REE-nee-ən ,-RAY-; Italian: Mar Tirreno [mar tirˈrɛːno] or [-ˈreː-]) is part of the Mediterranean Sea off the western...
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  • the Aegean Sea (including the so called Thracian Sea and Sea of Crete), the Adriatic Sea, the Alboran Sea, the Ligurian Sea, the Balearic Sea, the Tyrrhenian...
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    support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. The Red Sea is a sea inlet of the Indian Ocean, lying between Africa and Asia. Its connection...
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    The Dead Sea (Arabic: اَلْبَحْر الْمَيِّت, romanized: al-Baḥr al-Mayyit, or اَلْبَحْر الْمَيْت, al-Baḥr al-Mayt; Hebrew: יַם הַמֶּלַח, romanized: Yam...
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    involving a wedge-shaped slice on the International Boundary in the Beaufort Sea, between the Canadian territory of Yukon and the American state of Alaska...
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  • in Canada Anderson River (Northwest Territories), a tributary of the Beaufort Sea in Canada Anderson River (Indiana), a tributary of the Ohio River in...
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    Arctic Ocean (redirect from Arctic Sea)
    000 sq mi) Beaufort Sea—476,000 km2 (184,000 sq mi) Amundsen Gulf—93,000 km2 (36,000 sq mi) White Sea—90,000 km2 (35,000 sq mi) Pechora Sea—81,263 km2...
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