| Greenland Sea | |
| —n | |
| the S part of the Arctic Ocean, off the NE coast of Greenland | |
Greenland Sea
outlying portion of the Arctic Ocean, with an area of 465,000 square miles (1,205,000 square km). It lies south of the Arctic Basin proper and borders Greenland (west), Svalbard (east), the main Arctic Ocean (north), and the Norwegian Sea and Iceland (south). Average depth is 4,750 feet (1,450 m), with the deepest recorded point at 16,000 feet (4,800 m)
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