Hypothesized ice-free ocean surrounding the North Pole
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Open Polar Sea
Silas Bent's 1872 map including the "Supposed Open Sea"
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Suggested by Robert Thorne in the 16th century
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Type
Ice-free ocean in the North Pole area
Locations
Arctic Ocean
The Open Polar Sea was a conjectured ice-free body of water that was believed to encircle the North Pole. Although this theory was widely accepted and served as a basis for many exploratory expeditions aimed at reaching the North Pole by sea or discovering a navigable route between Europe and the Pacific via the North Pole, it was ultimately proven to be untrue.
However, global warming could open large areas of the Arctic Ocean by the end of the 21st century.
The OpenPolarSea was a conjectured ice-free body of water that was believed to encircle the North Pole. Although this theory was widely accepted and...
PolarSea may refer to: The Arctic Ocean The Southern Ocean USCGC PolarSea (WAGB-11), a United States Coast Guard icebreaker The OpenPolarSea, a hypothesized...
USCGC PolarSea (WAGB-11) is a United States Coast Guard heavy icebreaker. Commissioned on 23 February 1977, the ship was built by Lockheed Shipbuilding...
Fontaine Maury included a description of the OpenPolarSea in his textbook The Physical Geography of the Sea (1883). Nevertheless, as all the explorers...
(2012). "Long-distance swimming by polar bears (Ursus maritimus) of the southern Beaufort Sea during years of extensive open water". Canadian Journal of Zoology...
northwards into the strait, providing a gateway to the hypothesized OpenPolarSea and thus to the pole. This theory proved illusory; the expedition's...
density). Sea ice covers about 7% of the Earth's surface and about 12% of the world's oceans. Much of the world's sea ice is enclosed within the polar ice packs...
Polarseas is a collective term for the Arctic Ocean (about 4-5 percent of Earth's oceans) and the southern part of the Southern Ocean (south of Antarctic...
American Arctic Expedition led by Isaac Israel Hayes who claims to see the OpenPolarSea 1860–1862: First expedition led by American Charles Francis Hall searching...
active polar lows are found over certain ice-free maritime areas in or near the Arctic during the winter, such as the Norwegian Sea, Barents Sea, Labrador...
elected, after the war, to the New York State Assembly. His book, The OpenPolarSea: A Narrative of a Voyage of Discovery towards the North Pole, in the...
of mortality associated with extended open-water swimming by polar bears in the Alaskan Beaufort Sea" (PDF). Polar Biology. 29 (8): 681–687. Bibcode:2006PoBio...
consecutive years north of latitude 68°, and demonstrated the problem of this openpolarsea forty-five years ago, although others of much later date have endeavored...
especially its vice president Daines Barrington, who believed in an ice-free OpenPolarSea. Two bomb vessels, HMS Racehorse and HMS Carcass, were modified for...
believed that the North Pole was in a sea, which in the 19th century was called the Polynya or OpenPolarSea. It was therefore hoped that passage could...
Southern counterpart for balance. Hollow Earth theory The OpenPolarSea, an ice-free sea once supposed to surround the North Pole Rain follows the plow...
maritime bear') is a controversial extinct subspecies of polar bear. The subspecies of polar bear was named by the Finnish paleontologist Björn Kurtén...
in opposite directions to open the ice pack. Polar cyclones are a typical atmospheric trigger for the occurrence of mid-sea polynyas as the cyclonic winds...
A polar route is an aircraft route across the uninhabited polar ice cap regions. The term "polar route" was originally applied to great circle navigation...
"The Polar Express Experience at SeaWorld Orlando Begins This Friday, November 12th..." Visit Tampa Bay. November 10, 2010. "Photo Update: Sea Garden...
and porpoises), pinnipeds (seals, sea lions and walruses), sirenians (manatees and dugongs), sea otters and polar bears. They are an informal group,...
unexplored coastline north of 82° latitude, and discovered the long-sought openPolarSea. Kane collected valuable geographical, climate and magnetic observations...
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