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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An arm of the Arctic Ocean extending from Wrangel Island to the New Siberian Islands.
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- proper noun A
marginal sea in theArctic Ocean . This sea is bordering on theLaptev Sea in the West and theChukchi Sea in the East.
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The Hermit tapped a finger on the map of the far reaches of Otherness where it joined with Upper Earth on tiny Henrietta Island in the East Siberian Sea.
The Three Furies Kaza Kingsley 2010
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The Laptev Sea and part of the East Siberian Sea have open water along their coastline.
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During the 1990s, the source of the transpolar drift moved eastward into the East Siberian Sea and the Beaufort Gyre shrank eastward into the Beaufort Sea [104].
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During AO - conditions the East Siberian Sea receives much of its ice from the Beaufort Sea and there is an efficient route to carry ice clockwise around the arctic margin of the East Siberian Sea and out toward Fram Strait.
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In the East Siberian Sea, the freezing is happening so fast that areas of abnormally warm water are being encircled and stranded.
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The test launching was made from a position south of Lake Balkash; the target was located in the East Siberian Sea.
Operation R.S.V.P. H. Beam Piper 1934
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To the north is the East Siberian Sea, and all around is frozen tundra, bare mountains, lakes, scrubland and larch forests.
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To the north is the East Siberian Sea, and all around is frozen tundra, bare mountains, lakes, scrubland and larch forests.
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Huge quantities of methane below the Arctic seabed are showing signs of destabilising, according to research conducted in the East Siberian Sea.
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Another factor suggesting increased ice loss is the NCEP forecast, which projects warm temperatures over the East Siberian Sea and Arctic Basin for the next few days.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2010
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