The Chukchi Shelf or Chukchi Sea Shelf is the westernmost part of the continental shelf of the United States and the easternmost part of the continental...
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The Chukchi Sea Shelf is the westernmost part of the continental shelf of the United States and the easternmost part of the continental shelf of Russia...
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the Russian shelf are typically named after the corresponding seas: Barents Shelf (Barents Sea Shelf), Chukchi Shelf (Chukchi Sea Shelf), etc. With the...
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subdivided into the Kara Shelf, the Laptev Shelf and the East Siberian Shelf. Eastwards it merges into the Chukchi Shelf (of the Chukchi Sea) shared by Eurasia...
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Arctic Ocean (redirect from Arctic shelf)
shelves: the Barents Shelf, Chukchi Sea Shelf and Siberian Shelf. Of these three, the Siberian Shelf is the largest such shelf in the world; it holds...
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less than 200 meters, the Chukchi Shelf is the preeminent shelf in the arctic, barely engulfed by the Arctic Ocean. This shelf has been intensively studied...
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ice over the shallow (125 to 180 feet or 38 to 55 metres deep) Bering-Chukchi shelf. 1960 – USS Seadragon transited the Northwest Passage under ice. 1962...
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a subsea ridge extending from the continental shelf of the United States north of Alaska, the Chukchi Plateau is an important feature in maritime law...
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Federal waters that extend beyond State jurisdiction. Beach evolution Chukchi Sea Shelf Coastal geography Coastal States Organization International Boundary...
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Herald Shoal (category Landforms of the Chukchi Sea)
Herald Shoal is a region of high benthic productivity on the Chukchi Sea shelf. It serves as rich foraging habitat for many species of marine mammals...
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Hope Basin (category Landforms of the Chukchi Sea)
geological feature of the Chukchi Sea Shelf. It lies off the Chukchi Sea coast of Alaska. Its area extends from the outer continental shelf of the Seward Peninsula...
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also effect the delimitation of the extended continental shelf in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas: Ironically, each country's position within 200 nautical...
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province) (no provinces identified) Beaufort Sea-continental coast and shelf Chukchi Sea Eastern Bering Sea East Siberian Sea Laptev Sea Kara Sea North and...
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Hanna Shoal (category Landforms of the Chukchi Sea)
historically was, it still has the most reliable ice present on the entire Chukchi shelf. Due to the region’s high primary productivity, rich seafloor, and late...
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model, Wrangel, De Long and the New Siberian Islands and the parts of the Chukchi microcontinent were part of a small continent, Arctica. They subsequently...
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Pacific walruses in the Chukchi Sea, 1985. Mimeo Report. Gilbert JR (1989). "Aerial census of Pacific walruses in the Chukchi Sea, 1985". Marine Mammal...
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Sea of Okhotsk (redirect from Sakhalin Shelf)
United Nations to declare the Peanut Hole to be part of Russia's continental shelf. In November 2013, a United Nations subcommittee accepted the Russian argument...
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Black Sea (redirect from Black Sea shelf)
Due to these variations in the water level in the basin, the surrounding shelf and associated aprons have sometimes been dry land. At certain critical...
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and Greenland. Other Circumpolar North indigenous peoples include the Chukchi, Evenks, Iñupiat, Khanty, Koryaks, Nenets, Sámi, Yukaghir, Gwichʼin, and...
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the Bering Strait, which connects the Bering Sea to the Arctic Ocean's Chukchi Sea. Bristol Bay is the portion of the Bering Sea between the Alaska Peninsula...
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are now located on the Kara Sea Shelf, New Siberian Islands and adjacent shelf, Alaska north of Brooks Ridge, Chukchi Peninsula in easternmost Siberia...
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submarine canyon that straddles the boundary between the Beaufort and Chukchi seas. Compared to other nearby areas and the Canada Basin, the highly productive...
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Chukchi Sea appears to be shrimp, echiurid worms, cephalopods and polychaetes. The largest prey item consumed by beluga whales in the Eastern Chukchi...
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List of marine ecoregions (section North Brazil Shelf)
Beaufort-Admunsen-Viscount Melville-Queen Maud Beaufort Sea-continental coast and shelf Chukchi Sea Eastern Bering Sea East Siberian Sea Laptev Sea Kara Sea North and...
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Current Sea of Okhotsk West Bering Sea Chukchi Sea Beaufort Sea East Siberian Sea Laptev Sea Kara Sea Iceland Shelf Faroe Plateau Antarctica Black Sea Hudson...
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ostrova; Aleut: Unangam Tanangin, "land of the Aleuts"; possibly from the Chukchi aliat, or "island")—also called the Aleut Islands, Aleutic Islands, or...
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Ross Sea (section The continental shelf)
Marie Byrd Land, while the southernmost part is covered by the Ross Ice Shelf, and is about 200 miles (320 km) from the South Pole. Its boundaries and...
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Beaufort-Amundsen-Viscount Melville-Queen Maud Beaufort Sea-continental coast and shelf Chukchi Sea Eastern Bering Sea East Siberian Sea Laptev Sea Kara Sea North and...
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ConocoPhillips. In September 2012 Shell delayed actual oil drilling in the Chukchi until the following summer due to heavier-than-normal ice and the Arctic...
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The Onkilons are a hypothetical extinct people known from the legends of Chukchi people. Some researchers hypothecised that Onkilongs could have been a...
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