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The sun shines only a few months a year on the floating growlers
and the vast ice fields that cover most of the Artic Ocean. Compared
to the other world's oceans, the Artic ocean in the North Pole area
is the smallest in size and temperatures can drop to over 60 degrees
below zero.
Where it isn't landlocked by by either Europe,
Asia, North America or Greenland, it borders on one of the seas.
The Bering Strait connects the Artic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean
and the Greenland sea serves as the link to the Atlantic Ocean.
The latter also takes care of the major outflow of water. This icy
ocean is the shortest route between former Russia (Murmansk and
Archangel are the largest ports at the Artic Ocean) and North America.
Due to the extreme cold, marine life is mostly
found in the open areas. Unfortunately, the unspoiled area has to
deal with one of nature's major enemies: man. The Artic Ocean coastal
plain is threatened by oil companies that prefer their oil profit
to the preservance of the environment with all its splendid beauty. |
