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Polynya
Senin, 2025-11-24 03:51:54

describe navigable portions of the sea. There are two main types of polynyas: coastal polynyas, which can be found year-round near the Antarctic and Arctic coasts...

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Weddell Polynya
Senin, 2024-06-10 22:09:35

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...

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North Water Polynya
Minggu, 2026-03-01 15:57:40

it for spring passage, this polynya is one of the most biologically productive marine areas in the Arctic Ocean. Polynyas are often compared to oases...

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Antarctic bottom water
Senin, 2025-10-27 09:27:58

creating polynyas which opens up the water surface to a cold atmosphere during winter, which further helps form more sea ice. Antarctic coastal polynyas form...

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Cosmonauts Sea
Selasa, 2026-05-19 23:57:01

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

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List of seas on Earth
Rabu, 2026-05-06 19:38:53

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...

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Lead (sea ice)
Rabu, 2026-05-20 19:52:01

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...

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Polynya (disambiguation)
Sabtu, 2023-12-09 14:33:39

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...

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Polar bear
Kamis, 2026-05-21 18:18:11

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...

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Sea ice
Jumat, 2026-04-24 22:42:34

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...

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Katabatic wind
Jumat, 2026-03-20 20:51:34

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

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Josefino Comiso
Minggu, 2026-06-07 04:34:18

Antarctica, the Arctic, Alaska, and Greenland. He was especially interested in polynyas, an area of open water or thin ice surrounded by sea ice in the polar regions...

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Thermohaline circulation
Minggu, 2026-05-31 22:30:22

onto the ice shelves will blow the newly formed sea ice away, opening polynyas in locations such as Weddell and Ross Seas, off the Adélie Coast and by...

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Great Siberian Polynya
Sabtu, 2025-05-10 01:36:08

the polynya significantly decreases and two relatively independent areas of open water and young ice form - the Lena and Novosibirsk polynyas. An early...

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Submarine
Senin, 2026-06-01 08:02:54

developed techniques for making vertical ascents and descents through polynyas in the Chukchi Sea. 1952 – USS Redfish used an expanded upward-beamed sounder...

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Ellesmere Island
Kamis, 2026-04-23 10:49:42

area (on both the Ellesmere and Greenland sides) due to its proximity to polynyas and its position on transportation routes. From settlements at Smith Sound...

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Baffin Bay
Kamis, 2026-02-05 02:36:07

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...

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Water sky
Jumat, 2025-10-17 22:59:48

(2006). "Polarization of "water-skies" above arctic open waters: how polynyas in the ice-cover can be visually detected from a distance". Journal of...

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Grease ice
Jumat, 2025-10-24 10:45:19

winter in the Arctic, and Antarctic where frazil forms and coalesces in polynyas or in cold-exposed regions of the open-ocean. Similarly, in seas and lakes...

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Snowy owl
Minggu, 2026-06-07 06:59:18

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...

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Emperor penguin
Selasa, 2026-04-14 20:49:40

incubation heads directly out to areas of permanent open water, known as polynyas, around 100 km (62 mi) from the colony. An efficient swimmer, the emperor...

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North Pole
Selasa, 2026-05-12 08:02:21

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...

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Antarctic sea ice
Selasa, 2026-05-12 08:13:01

the northward-moving ice leaves areas of open water (coastal latent-heat polynyas), which rapidly freeze. Because Antarctic ice is mainly first-year ice...

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Chukchi Sea
Rabu, 2026-03-25 21:58:41

Exploration Niven, J., The Ice Master, The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk. Polynyas in the Chukchi Sea: [1] Polar bear protection in the Chukchi Sea: Polar...

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Open Water
Kamis, 2025-11-27 02:27:19

surface: Lead (sea ice), a large fracture within an expanse of sea ice Polynya, an area of open water surrounded by sea ice Open water (diving), unconfined...

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Copepod
Kamis, 2026-04-09 08:35:19

superba). C. glacialis inhabits the edge of the Arctic icepack, especially in polynyas where light (and photosynthesis) is present, in which they alone comprise...

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Brine rejection
Senin, 2025-09-15 14:13:48

In coastal polynyas, it is the key to the ventilation of multiple water masses across both the Arctic and Antarctic. A coastal polynya is an area of...

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Ursus maritimus tyrannus
Senin, 2026-06-01 13:18:34

Pleistocene and Holocene in Relation to Sea Ice Extent and Open Water Polynyas". Open Quaternary. 8 (1): 7. doi:10.5334/oq.107. ISSN 2055-298X. "Ancient...

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Continental shelf
Minggu, 2026-03-29 10:22:18

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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Fractional freezing
Rabu, 2025-04-16 19:59:38

called brine rejection. Large lakes of higher salinity water, called polynyas, form in the middle of floes, and the water eventually sinks to the bottom...

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Drygalski Ice Tongue
Rabu, 2026-02-18 13:01:08

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...

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Frazil ice
Minggu, 2026-05-17 08:12:03

supercooled layer. Frazil ice can be found on the downwind side of leads and in polynyas. In these environments, that ice can eventually accumulate at the water...

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Iceberg
Kamis, 2026-05-28 19:12:59

recorded icebergs by area Polar ice cap Polar ice pack (disambiguation) Polynya Sea ice Seabed gouging by ice Shelf ice "Iceberg Formation: International...

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Bay of Winds
Jumat, 2025-06-20 02:23:40

the plateau into the bay. Inside Katabatic Winds over the Terra Nova Bay PolynyaPart 1: Atmospheric Jet and Surface Conditions  This article incorporates...

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Biomagnification
Senin, 2026-05-11 01:19:49

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

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The Blue Planet
Rabu, 2026-06-03 22:14:36

and frozen seas that create the biggest challenge. However, there are polynyas in the Arctic, which are free of ice owing to the pressure of currents...

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Konrad Steffen
Sabtu, 2025-06-28 07:28:36

Landscape Research Thesis Surface temperature and sea ice of an arctic polynya: north water in winter : Canad. and greenlandic high arctic (1985) Doctoral...

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List of World Heritage Sites in Canada
Selasa, 2026-04-28 08:04:40

ice-free most of the year. The open water areas at the edge of ice packs, polynyas, provide shelter for marine mammals and birds, and have been integral for...

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Drift ice
Senin, 2025-08-18 20:56:03

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...

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Ice
Minggu, 2026-04-19 00:34:56

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

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Foxe Basin
Senin, 2026-02-09 10:48:02

winds keep the ice pack in constant motion and contribute to the numerous polynyas and shore leads which are found throughout the region. This same motion...

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Beluga whale
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 13:55:27

alongside the pack ice or in areas covered with ice, surviving by using polynyas to surface and breathe. In summer after the sheet ice has melted, they...

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St. Lawrence Island
Minggu, 2026-04-05 02:00:30

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...

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Retreat of glaciers since 1850
Sabtu, 2026-04-25 04:05:00

by enhanced basal melting, because of ocean processes, and affected by polynya activity. Additionally, warm Circumpolar Deep Water, has been observed...

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Dead water
Senin, 2025-05-26 08:56:28

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

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Snowball Earth
Kamis, 2026-05-14 16:57:48

severe phases of the frozen period. In small regions of open sea water: polynya. These natural ice holes can occur from the action of winds, currents or...

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Ivory gull
Sabtu, 2026-01-10 13:09:14

ivory gull breeding in Alaska. During the winter, ivory gulls live near polynyas, or a large area of open water surrounded by sea ice. North American birds...

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Nuuk (album)
Sabtu, 2024-08-17 03:59:35

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...

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Climate change in Antarctica
Sabtu, 2026-04-04 13:41:55

ice from beneath, forming historic polynyas (areas of open water, like the reappearance of the Maud Rise polynya, four times the size of Wales) 2024...

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Inuit navigation
Selasa, 2026-01-13 02:01:43

locations each year: such as, ice dunes and pressure ridges, an ice build-up, polynyas, areas of open water surrounded by sea ice, caused by the prevailing wind...

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Gulf of St. Lawrence
Rabu, 2026-03-04 17:50:17

a wide range of hydrodynamic conditions including seasonal ice cover, polynyas, fronts, gyres, freshwater input and influences, and large seasonal variations...

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McGee Airways
Jumat, 2026-06-05 17:37:50

Robert W. Stevens D.D.L. (1989). Alaskan Aviation History. (Des Moines, IA: Polynyas Press, 1095 pp., hardback 2 volume set). ISBN 0-929427-01-7 Pat Wachel...

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Long Strait
Rabu, 2025-02-12 05:31:40

Long Strait пролив Лонга (Russian) A view from space, with a long polynya in the strait and Wrangel Island to the north-east Long Strait Location in Russia...

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Scoresby Sound
Rabu, 2026-02-25 19:59:54

several factors, such as availability of open water in the mouth, with polynyas not freezing even in winter, protection from the winds by the high relief...

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Bowhead whale
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 01:42:01

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

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The Terror (novel)
Rabu, 2026-05-20 00:09:03

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

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Orca attacks
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 21:27:42

Basin, Canada). A pod of orcas, likely 10-12 individuals, was trapped in a polynya, and a young man visited the site in spite of advice from elders to wait...

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Open Polar Sea
Kamis, 2026-02-19 08:35:57

Arctic summer, it would melt all the ice. Russian explorers had found large polynyas (areas of open water) north of Svalbard and so there were surely other...

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Laptev Sea
Sabtu, 2025-11-15 22:56:04

band, and several polynyas are formed by the warm south winds around there. They have various names, such as the Great Siberian Polynya, and can stretch...

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Underwater vision
Jumat, 2026-02-06 15:20:39

80m, and a record Secchi depth of 79 m has been reported from a coastal polynya of the Eastern Weddell Sea, Antarctica. In other sea waters, Secchi depths...

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Austro-Hungarian North Pole expedition
Kamis, 2025-11-13 05:24:00

made very slow progress over ice full of hummocks, cracks, ridges, and polynyas. Only after eight days had they advanced out of sight of the ship. On 1 July...

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Channichthyidae
Rabu, 2026-05-20 07:56:37

(2011-12-15). "Early season depletion of dissolved iron in the Ross Sea polynya: Implications for iron dynamics on the Antarctic continental shelf". Journal...

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Glossary of meteorology
Kamis, 2026-05-28 04:15:55

the polar regions, often forming on the downwind side of leads and in polynyas, and in certain conditions may take on an oily or "greasy" appearance....

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Weddell Sea Bottom Water
Senin, 2025-09-15 23:52:45

Warm ENSO events cause the increase of sea ice advection and more coastal polynyas which allows for more dense shelf water availability. These ENSO and SAM...

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Vok
Minggu, 2016-03-27 22:48:08

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

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Alexander Kolchak
Rabu, 2026-05-27 13:11:54

Extracts from it were published under the title "The Arctic Pack and the Polynya" in the volume issued in 1929 by the American Geographical Society, Problems...

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USS Redfish (SS-395)
Kamis, 2026-04-23 05:31:54

When transiting under the ice, Redfish had to rely on its sonar to locate polynyas where the submarine could surface and recharge her batteries. The submarine...

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Glossary of geography terms (N–Z)
Kamis, 2026-04-30 07:43:45

having many nodes. polynya An area of unfrozen seawater surrounded by an otherwise contiguous area of pack ice or fast ice. Polynyas are often formed along...

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USS O-12
Jumat, 2026-05-22 04:34:00

travelled only a short distance under the ice before resurfacing through a polynya, but her radios had been badly damaged, requiring days to repair. The scientific...

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Cape Vera
Jumat, 2026-01-23 06:04:36

island's northwestern Colin Archer Peninsula, it faces Jones Sound. Often, a polynya forms in the Cardigan Strait, a waterway that separates the cape from North...

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Flaw lead
Minggu, 2021-07-04 09:19:25

flaw. The process begins in autumn. Flaw leads can have interconnected polynyas. The Canadian government's Circumpolar Flaw Lead System Study, through...

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Cape Royds
Jumat, 2024-03-29 20:08:38

penguin colony known, with a long period of population data. The presence of polynyas in McMurdo Sound provides an ice-free area where penguins can feed, and...

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Oden (1988 icebreaker)
Kamis, 2026-01-22 17:12:58

the ice, biology, oceanography, and biogeochemistry of the Amundsen Sea Polynya. There was a controversy that Oden was not assisting the shipping in Swedish...

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Antarctic minke whale
Senin, 2026-05-11 14:06:01

where they have been observed between belts of pack ice and in leads and polynyas – often in heavy ice cover. Some individuals have become trapped in the...

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List of Russian people
Rabu, 2026-06-03 06:40:44

Gedenschtrom, explorer of the New Siberian Islands, discoverer of Siberian polynya Maria Klenova, a founder of marine geology, made the first complete seabed...

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Cardigan Strait
Jumat, 2026-01-23 05:47:44

opens to the north. North Kent Island is situated within the strait. A polynya forms in Cardigan Strait most winters, used by wintering Bearded and Ringed...

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List of Russian explorers
Minggu, 2026-05-24 13:39:24

northwest of Kotelny Island. Gedenschtrom discovered the presence of Siberian polynya (patches of open water at the edge of the drifting ice and continental...

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Arctogadus
Selasa, 2026-05-19 08:48:43

Arctogadus glacialis (Peters, 1874) (Pisces: Gadidae) in the Northeast Water Polynya (Greenland)". Polar Biology. 20 (5): 357–363. Bibcode:1998PoBio..20..357S...

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Ross Sea
Selasa, 2025-11-25 07:21:33

the western edge of the Ross Sea. The Ross Sea circulation, dominated by polynya processes, is in general very slow-moving. Circumpolar Deep Water (CDW)...

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Boreogadus
Selasa, 2026-05-19 08:47:57

Arctic cod can also be found in dense schools near glacial fronts and polynyas. Subsurface plumes of freshwater discharged from glaciers create foraging...

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USS Skate (SSN-578)
Kamis, 2025-12-11 05:19:21

surface in." The closest was to make radio contact at the surface from a polynya around 30 nm away, but not to surface fully owing to the risk of damage...

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Tokko (river)
Jumat, 2024-11-08 04:40:59

its length between mid October and mid May, but there are places where polynyas form. There are about 1,700 lakes in the basin area of the Tokko. List...

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Dunay Islands
Minggu, 2026-03-29 03:05:39

is subject to severe Arctic weather. Although there are some offshore polynyas towards the north, there is fast ice between the Dunay Islands and the...

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Seymchan (Kolyma)
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 19:50:17

1969-1978. (in Russian) W.J. Stringer and J.E. Groves. 1991. Extent of Polynyas in the Bering and Chukchi Seas Archived 2017-10-12 at the Wayback Machine...

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Seymchan (urban-type settlement)
Rabu, 2026-02-11 09:45:10

Yakuts. Its name derives from the Yakut language word Kheymchen, meaning Polynya. In the 19th century, the trade route between the Kolyma region and the...

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Bennett Island
Minggu, 2025-10-26 19:44:15

very cold temperatures. The region is relatively remote, with only warmer polynyas – open water surrounded by sea ice – to potentially provide instability...

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Star Air Service
Senin, 2026-04-20 23:40:49

2001, ISBN 1-888125-91-8 Robert W. Stevens, "Alaskan Aviation History", Polynyas Press, Des Moines, Washington, 1989, ISBN 0-929427-01-7 McLaren & Dickson...

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Sireniki
Rabu, 2026-03-11 00:37:27

Urban Settlement. The placement of the settlement owes much to a sizeable polynya at the shore of the village, allowing the inhabitants to hunt all year...

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The North Water (novel)
Minggu, 2026-03-22 03:44:16

(UK)/Scribner (UK). The "north water" of the title is the North Water Polynya, to which ships sail in the endless pursuit of whales for their valuable...

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Lancaster Sound
Kamis, 2026-04-23 11:53:20

with the Qikiqtani Inuit Association. Lancaster Aulacogen North Water Polynya "Lancaster Sound". Geographical Names Data Base. Natural Resources Canada...

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Peter Killworth
Jumat, 2026-04-24 17:13:07

across the whole of physical oceanography, including the study of ice, polynyas, Rossby waves, instabilities and eddies. He completed his doctorate in...

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Russian polar expedition of 1900–1902
Selasa, 2025-10-28 03:54:00

early May, Kolchak and Strizhev surveyed Belkovsky Island and run into polynyas in the northern and western directions. In the evening of 23 May 1902,...

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Last Ice Area
Kamis, 2026-04-23 00:56:03

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

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Leeuwenhoekiella polynyae
Kamis, 2026-06-04 17:44:51

genus of Leeuwenhoekiella which has been isolated from water from the polynya in the Antarctic Ocean. L. polynyae is oxidase and catalase positive. The...

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Denmark expedition
Kamis, 2026-03-26 19:40:03

Mountain in SE Holm Land the coastal ice of the Dijmphna Sound gave way to a polynya and, as the sleds tried to find a way around the open water, the first...

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Helen Bostock
Rabu, 2026-03-04 13:25:51

years later she was deputy voyage leader for an expedition to the Mertz Polynya, Antarctica. In 2016 she was awarded the McKay Hammer, for her combined...

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Southern Ocean overturning circulation
Senin, 2026-02-23 23:32:52

Nihashi, Sohey (2008). "Mapping of sea ice production for Antarctic coastal polynyas". Geophysical Research Letters. 35 (7) 2007GL032903. Bibcode:2008GeoRL...

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Korkodon
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 19:51:06

well as swamps. The river freezes between mid October and mid May, but polynyas may form in the lower reaches. Among the fish species found in the river...

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Seymour Island (Nunavut)
Senin, 2026-03-16 10:30:52

Island. Penny Strait lies about 90 km (56 mi) to the east where open water polynyas occur. It was first noted by Europeans during the search for Franklin's...

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Arctic ice pack
Rabu, 2026-06-03 20:46:47

Arctic sea ice ecology and history Climate change Iceberg Polar ice cap Polynya Shelf ice Antarctic sea ice Polar Sea Ice Cap and Snow – Cryosphere Today...

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Nimbus program
Senin, 2026-02-02 21:33:37

a polynya, developed three years in a row in the seasonal ice that encases Antarctica each winter. Located in the Weddell Sea, each year the polynya vanished...

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Shelonsky Islands
Selasa, 2024-12-31 09:23:13

Vostochnyy. The Far North:: Plant Biodiversity and Ecology of Yakutia Polynyas and frozen surface in the Laptev Sea during the winter Archived 2008-12-02...

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List of English words of Russian origin
Senin, 2026-05-11 03:16:54

subsoil, typically found in regions with a subpolar climate. Polynia also polynya, polynia (Russian: полынья́; [pəlɨˈnʲja]) A non-linear area of open water...

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East Siberian Sea
Minggu, 2026-02-22 06:36:42

of 2–3 m. The southern winter winds shift this ice northwards, making polynyas near the sea centre. There are no icebergs in the sea. Ice melting typically...

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Terra Nova Bay
Rabu, 2026-04-01 07:16:18

During the winter, the bay is often sea ice free; it acts as a coastal polynya due to the katabatic winds that blow off the David, Reeves and Priestley...

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Biodilution
Selasa, 2024-05-21 14:30:38

been shown to occur in the marine environment as well. The Northwater Polynya, located in Baffin Bay, was found to have a negative correlation of cadmium...

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Mount Melbourne
Minggu, 2026-05-24 11:26:11

Hughes, P.; Krissek, L.A. (1985). "Modern sediments of the Terra Nova Bay polynya, Ross Sea, Antarctica". Antarctic Journal of the United States. 20 (5):...

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Arctic Archipelago Marine Ecozone (CEC)
Minggu, 2026-04-19 01:58:31

melts during the summer, though ice floes are numerous in some parts. Polynyas may occur throughout the ecozone, but are most common near the Nares Strait...

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Mertz Glacier
Jumat, 2024-08-02 20:51:31

icebergs from the calved glacier tongue has reduced the effectiveness of the polynya west of Mertz Glacier that acted as one of Antarctica's major areas for...

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Single-Handed Trans-Atlantic Race
Jumat, 2026-03-27 12:26:28

26 days 04 hours 10 min 25 days 08 hours 04 min 2  Herve Dupriez (FRA) Polynya M 36 J 0.896 29 days 22 hours 47 min 26 days 20 hours 01 min 3  Mihail...

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Makinson Inlet
Jumat, 2026-01-23 05:45:57

 108–09. ISBN 1894384393. Media related to Makinson Inlet at Wikimedia Commons On a Polynya in Makinson Inlet On the Oceanography of Makinson Inlet v t e...

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Matvei Gedenshtrom
Selasa, 2026-04-21 09:47:29

very expedition. Gedenshtrom established the presence of the Siberian polynya – patches of open water in sea ice at the edge of the drifting ice and...

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Pechora Sea
Rabu, 2026-01-07 08:48:44

fast ice covers the floor of the Sea's coastal zone. On top of it is flaw polynya. It supports a unique benthic ecosystem. The productive benthic environment...

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Pagophily
Jumat, 2026-04-03 22:07:54

Ringed Seals (Phoca Hispida) on the East and West Sides of the North Water Polynya, Northern Baffin Bay". Marine Mammal Science. 17 (4): 888–908. Bibcode:2001MMamS...

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Maud Rise
Kamis, 2024-05-02 13:33:02

(near South Georgia Island off South America), and Maud Rise. Weddell Polynya "GEBCO Gridded Bathymetry Data". "Maud Rise". Geographic Names Information...

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Dijmphna Sound
Senin, 2026-01-26 05:20:45

Peninsula in 1882–1883, but ended up stuck in the Kara Sea pack ice. A polynya forms at the foot of the steep cliffs of Mallemuk Mountain so that there...

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Providensky District
Jumat, 2026-01-30 06:30:44

Bowhead whales are arranged on the beach. There is also a large, permanent polynya near Sireniki. In the 17th century, Semyon Dezhnyov and his Cossacks founded...

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Kendra Daly
Jumat, 2025-12-26 07:50:29

(1997-01-01). "Flux of particulate matter through copepods in the Northeast water polynya". Journal of Marine Systems. 10 (1): 319–342. Bibcode:1997JMS....10..319D...

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Ian Stirling (biologist)
Selasa, 2025-07-29 10:44:14

Officer of the Order of Canada (2000) Stirling I (1997) The importance of polynyas, ice edges, and leads to marine mammals and birds. Journal of Marine Systems...

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List of Cumacea literature
Senin, 2026-05-04 03:57:33

(1995). Peracarid fauna (Crustacea, Malacostraca) of the Northeast Water Polynya off Greenland: documenting close benthic-pelagic coupling in the Westwind...

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Fritz Müller (glaciologist)
Rabu, 2026-03-04 12:10:03

Institute of Geography and started the investigation of the North Water Polynya in Baffin Bay. Müller also worked on the glacier inventories of the Swiss...

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Open ocean convection
Kamis, 2026-02-12 03:45:07

deep mixing. The convection in the Weddell Sea is mostly associated with polynya. According to Akitomo et al. (1995), Arnold L. Gordon was the first to...

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Sympagic ecology
Rabu, 2026-05-27 05:01:53

regimes and the likely loss of the multi-year ice cover. Polar ecology Polynya Ehrlich, Julia; Schaafsma, Fokje L.; Bluhm, Bodil A.; Peeken, Ilka; Castellani...

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ArcticNet
Jumat, 2025-10-10 22:50:39

Canadian Arctic Shelf Exchange Study (CASES) and International North Water Polynya Study (NOW) research projects. It provides complete coverage of more than...

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Lincoln Sea
Jumat, 2026-01-23 05:40:33

0.9 and 2.2 m (3 and 7+1⁄5 ft), denotes the refreezing of the Lincoln Polynya ice. These helicopter measurements concur with satellite-based radar imagery...

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Aurora Australis (icebreaker)
Senin, 2026-05-18 05:41:28

to the Antarctic, a seven-week expedition to explore, the Mertz Glacier Polynya. On 14 January 1999 whilst en route to Antarctica a fire caused by leaking...

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Tallurutiup Imanga National Marine Conservation Area
Senin, 2026-03-16 10:37:48

The ecological importance of Lancaster Sound is due to the presence of polynyas in its waters. These small pockets of open water provide refuge for Arctic...

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Mallemuk Mountain
Minggu, 2026-05-24 04:00:00

of the cliffs there is often open water. List of mountains in Greenland Polynya ONC map of North Greenland at scale 1:1,000,000 - 1969 Google Earth Mallemukfjeldet...

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Henrik Krøyer Holme
Senin, 2024-07-29 15:06:49

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...

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Natan Strugatsky
Sabtu, 2026-02-07 22:40:26

truck transport across the ice of Lake Ladoga, the vehicle fell into a polynya, but did not sink, though the passengers arrived in Zhikharevo covered...

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Sea ice growth processes
Selasa, 2026-06-02 19:34:50

(2007-05-01). "Investigations of newly formed sea ice in the Cape Bathurst polynya: 1. Structural, physical, and optical properties". Journal of Geophysical...

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Totten Glacier
Rabu, 2026-02-18 11:14:34

(2013-12-05). "Observed thinning of Totten Glacier is linked to coastal polynya variability". Nature Communications. 4: 2857. Bibcode:2013NatCo...4.2857K...

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Frank Wolf (adventurer)
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 21:57:47

Pikialasorsuaq Expedition : 20-day, 300 km ski journey along the North Water Polynya, over the Devon Ice Cap, and across Jones Sound to finish at Grise Fiord...

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Alison Criscitiello
Senin, 2026-03-30 22:55:59

J.; Marshall, S. (2021). "Marine Aerosol Records of Arctic Sea-Ice and Polynya Variability From New Ellesmere and Devon Island Firn Cores, Nunavut, Canada"...

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2022 in paleomammalogy
Jumat, 2026-05-08 08:09:30

Pleistocene and Holocene in Relation to Sea Ice Extent and Open Water Polynyas". Open Quaternary. 8 7. doi:10.5334/oq.107. Lan, T.; Leppälä, K.; Tomlin...

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Outline of oceanography
Minggu, 2026-02-15 17:38:10

term for the Arctic Ocean and the southern part of the Southern Ocean Polynya – An area of unfrozen sea within the ice pack Pressure ridge (ice) – A...

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Moira Dunbar
Rabu, 2026-04-15 22:01:41

Passage. Dunbar was one of the first Arctic scientists to observe and study polynyas, open areas of water or thin ice that develop in the winter when strong...

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Amdrup Land
Selasa, 2025-10-07 15:45:23

coastal areas of Amdrup Land and Holm Land adjacent to the Northeast Water polynya: an archaeological perspective Tectono-stratigraphic history of Northern...

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Weddell
Rabu, 2025-03-05 02:58:33

current in the Weddell Sea Weddell Plain, an undersea abyssal plain Weddell Polynya, an area of water surrounded by sea ice in the Weddell Sea Weddell, Northern...

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Moninya Roughan
Jumat, 2026-05-08 06:19:59

to the Antarctic, a seven-week expedition to explore, the Mertz Glacier Polynya, when a fire broke out in the engine room while the ship was deep within...

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Lady Ann Strait
Jumat, 2026-01-23 05:48:08

2010. Retrieved 2008-06-04. Lady Ann Strait at the Atlas of Canada. The Polynya in Lady Ann Strait, Jones Sound, NW Baffin Bay, Arctic Canada: A Time-lapse...

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Limacina rangii
Jumat, 2026-01-09 15:20:46

; Gambi, M. C. (2003). "The vertical flux of particulate matter in the polynya of Terra Nova Bay. Part II. Biological components". Antarctic Science....

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Gustave Lambert
Minggu, 2026-05-31 01:49:45

cross the ocean from south to north, pass the Bering Straits, reach the Polynya, open water found recently by the navigators Herold and Plower. One would...

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