Greenland Sea

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Greenland Sea

The Greenland Sea is the northernmost part of the North Atlantic Ocean immediately south of the Arctic Ocean

Arctic Ocean

The Arctic Ocean, located in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Arctic North Pole region, is the smallest and shallowest of the world's five major oceanic divisions....
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The Greenland Sea

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The Greenland Sea is the northernmost part of the North Atlantic Ocean immediately south of the Arctic Ocean

Arctic Ocean

The Arctic Ocean, located in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Arctic North Pole region, is the smallest and shallowest of the world's five major oceanic divisions....
. It encompasses some 1,205,000 square km (465,000 square miles). The average depth of the Greenland Sea is close to 1,450 m (4,750 ft). The deepest recorded point of 5600m has been found at Molloy Deep, in the Fram Strait

Fram Strait

The Fram Strait is a passage from the Arctic Ocean to the Greenland Sea and Norwegian Sea, between Greenland and Spitsbergen. It is named after the Norway ship Fram....
between northeastern Greenland and Svalbard.

Geography

Greenland Sea is bounded to the west by the island of Greenland

Greenland

Greenland is a member country of the Kingdom of Denmark located between the Arctic Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago....
, and to the south by the Denmark Strait

Denmark Strait

The Denmark Strait is a strait between Greenland and Iceland . The Norway island of Jan Mayen is located northeast of the strait.It connects the Greenland Sea, an extension of the Arctic Ocean, to the Atlantic Ocean and is 300 miles long and 180 miles wide at its narrowest....
and Iceland

Iceland

Iceland, officially the Republic of Iceland , is an island country located in the North Atlantic Ocean between mainland Europe and Greenland....
. To the southeast, behind the Jan Mayen island lies the vast expanse of the Norwegian Sea

Norwegian Sea

The Norwegian Sea is part of the North Atlantic Ocean northwest of Norway, located between the North Sea and the Greenland Sea.It adjoins the Iceland Sea to the west and the Barents Sea to the northeast....
, of which Greenland Sea may be considered an extension. Across Fram Strait to the northeast the sea is delimited by the Svalbard

Svalbard

Svalbard is an archipelago in the Arctic Ocean north of mainland Europe, about midway between mainland Norway and the North Pole. It consists of a group of islands ranging from 74th parallel north to 81st parallel north, and 10th meridian east to 35th meridian east....
archipelago

Archipelago

An archipelago is a chain or cluster of islands that are formed tectonically. The word archipelago literally means "chief sea", from Italian language arcipelago , derived ultimately from Greek language arkhon and pelagos ....
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Ocean currents

This arm of the Arctic Ocean is the ocean's main outlet to the Atlantic. The progressively colder waters of North Atlantic Current

North Atlantic Current

The North Atlantic Current is a powerful warm ocean current that continues the Gulf Stream northeast. West of Ireland it splits in two. One branch goes south while the other continues north along the coast of northwestern Europe where it has a considerable warming influence on the climate....
sink in the Arctic Ocean, returning south in the form of cold East Greenland Current

East Greenland Current

The East Greenland Current originates in the Arctic Ocean and brings cold, low salinity, southbound water along the eastern coast of Greenland....
, an important part of the Atlantic conveyor belt. Due to drifting Arctic ice, the northern part is rarely open to navigation.

Fauna

The Greenland Sea is densely inhabited by the organisms that form the base of the oceanic food chain

Food chain

Food chains, also called, food networks and/or trophic social networks, describe the eating relationships between species within an ecosystem....
. Large invertebrate

Invertebrate

An invertebrate is an animal lacking a vertebral column. The group includes 98% of all animal species ? all animals except those in the Chordate subphylum vertebrate ....
s, fish

Fish

A fish is any marine biology vertebrate animal that is typically ectothermic , covered with scale , and equipped with two sets of paired fins and several unpaired fins....
(such as cod

Cod

Cod is the common name for the genus of fish Gadus, belonging to the family Gadidae, and is also used in the common name of a variety of other fishes....
, herring

Herring

Herring are small, oily fish of the genus Clupea found in the shallow, temperate waters of the North Pacific Ocean and the North Atlantic Ocean, including the Baltic Sea....
, redfish

Redfish

Redfish is a common name for several species of fish. It is most commonly applied to members of the deep-sea genus Sebastes, or the reef dwelling snappers, Lutjanus....
, halibut

Halibut

A halibut is a type of flatfish from the family of the right-eye flounders . This name is derived from haly and butt , alleged to be called so from being commonly eaten on holy-days....
, and plaice

European plaice

European plaice, Pleuronectes platessa, are a commercially important flatfish occurring on the sandy bottoms of the European shelf. Its geographical range is from the Barents Sea to the Mediterranean....
), birds and mammal

Mammal

Mammals are a class of vertebrate animals whose name is derived from their distinctive feature, mammary glands, with which they feed their young....
s (including seals

Pinniped

Pinnipeds or fin-footed mammals are a widely distributed and diverse group of semi-aquatic marine mammals comprising the families Odobenidae , Otariidae , and Phocidae ....
, whale

Whale

Whales are marine mammals of order Cetacea which are neither dolphinsmembers, in other words, of the families Oceanic dolphin or River dolphinnor porpoises....
s, and dolphin

Dolphin

File:Bottlenose_Dolphin_KSC04pd0178.jpgDolphins are marine mammals that are closely related to whales and porpoises. There are almost forty species of dolphin in seventeen genus....
s) all feed on the smaller invertebrates and small organism

Organism

In biology, an organism is any life thing . In at least some form, all organisms are capable of response to stimulus , reproduction, growth and developmental biology, and maintenance of homeostasis as a stable whole....
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Greenland Sea

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