A polynya (/pəˈlɪnjə/) is an area of open water surrounded by sea ice. It is now used as a geographical term for an area of unfrozen seawater within otherwise...

The Weddell Polynya, or Weddell Sea Polynya, is a polynya, or irregular area of open water surrounded by sea ice, in the Weddell Sea of the Southern Ocean...

A polynya is a non-linear area of open water surrounded by sea ice. Polynya may also refer to: Polynia (ship), a ship crushed in sea ice in 1891 and commemorated...

The North Water Polynya (NOW), or Pikialasorsuaq to Inuit in Greenland and Sarvarjuaq to Inuit in Canada, is a polynya (area of year-round open water surrounded...

McMurdo Sound Polynyas in McMurdo Sound Riiser-Larsen Sea Ross Sea Scotia Sea Somov Sea Spencer Gulf Weddell Sea Weddell Polynya/Maud Rise Polynya While all...

The Great Siberian Polynya (Russian: Великая Сибирская полынья) is a strip of open water and young ice that regularly forms beyond the outer edge of the...

high density of floating ice and icebergs in the open areas. However, a polynya of about 80,000 km2 (31,000 sq mi), known as the North Water, opens in...

Between 1973 and 1986, several polynyas have occurred in these waters, with the totally enclosed Cosmonaut polynya attaining its maximum size on July...

Amdrup Land. The waters around the islands are part of the North East Water polynya, a seasonal area of open water surrounded by ice. List of islands of Greenland...

factor contributing to the frequent formation of the Terra Nova Bay polynya. The polynya enables both production of sea ice and high salinity seawater. The...

Bering Sea shelf edge. To the south of the island there was a persistent polynya in 1999, formed when the prevailing winds from the north and east blow...

the music. "Nuuk (Air)" – 4:50 "Polynya I" – 6:33 "Nuuk (Day)" – 7:27 "Amras" – 5:37 "Nuuk (Night)" - 4:15 "Polynya II" - 7:25 "Nuuk (End)" - 6:00 2004...

the Arctic. Comiso located the recurring polynya in the Cosmonauts Sea, south of the Indian Ocean. A polynya is a semi-permanent area of open water in...

the North Pole was in a sea, which in the 19th century was called the Polynya or Open Polar Sea. It was therefore hoped that passage could be found through...

Coastal polynyas are produced in the Antarctic by katabatic winds...

through thermohaline circulation. AABW forms near the surface in coastal polynyas along the coastline of Antarctica, where high rates of sea ice formation...

The species tends to frequent areas where sea ice meets water, such as polynyas and leads, to hunt the seals that make up most of its diet. Polar bears...

Goodsir to the Hickey ambush site (his attempts to pronounce the word polynya: polyp and polyanna, exasperate Captain Crozier). Golding eventually dies...

and other trace elements in a pelagic Arctic marine food web (Northwater Polynya, Baffin Bay)". Science of the Total Environment. Contaminants in Canadian...

of sea ice as perching sites and presumably hunting mostly seabirds in polynyas. In February 1886, a snowy owl landed on the rigging of the Nova Scotia...

wind Lead (sea ice) – Fracture that opens up in an expanse of sea ice Polynya – Area of unfrozen sea within an ice pack Pressure ridge (ice) – Linear...

the shores of the Arctic Ocean are influenced by sea ice production and polynya. There is evidence that changing wind, rainfall, and regional ocean currents...

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Vok Beverages, Australian drinks manufacturer Vök, an Icelandic term for Polynya Vlky (in Hungarian Vök), a village and municipality in Senec District in...

Fram expedition Nordenskiöld Archipelago Polar ice cap Polar ice packs Polynya Sea ice Shelf ice Vagn Walfrid Ekman – Swedish oceanographer Fourdrinoy...

other vessels, as the only alternative is to find the openings called "polynyas" or "leads". A widespread production of icebreakers began during the 19th...

Beluga whales often accompany bowhead whales, for curiosity and to secure polynya feasibility to breathe as bowheads are capable of breaking through ice...

surface more easily. Polynyas are more uniform in size than leads and are also larger – two types are recognized: 1) Sensible-heat polynyas, caused by the upwelling...

Portion of the Last Ice Area - the North Water polynya (NOW) situated between Ellesmere Island and Greenland. Anomalous ice formation were recorded on...

Leads vary in width from meters to hundreds of meters. As is the case for polynyas (another sea ice feature involving open water), leads allow the direct...