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Beaufort Sea

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A marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean north of Alaska and Canada's Yukon and Northwest Territories, named for the British hydrographer Francis Beaufort. It remains heavily ice-covered for most of the year and is a focus of Arctic sea ice research.

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