The Arctic Ocean is the smallest of all the oceans. It is located around the north part of the earth around Canada, some of Greenland, Russia, Alaska, and parts of Norway.

        The Arctic Ocean is divided into seas by islands. The names of the seas are the Greenland Sea, the Barents, the Kara, the Leptev, the East Siberian, the Chkchi, and the Beafort.

        The Arctic Ocean is around 14, 090, 000 kilometers square and the average depth is 1,205 meters. The surface temperatures are -2 degrees Celsius in the winter and -1.5 degrees Celsius in the summer.

        The continental shelf and the central basin are located on the ocean floor. The continental shelf goes out about 70-200 kilometers from the shore.

        The Central Basin is broken up into two main basins; the Eurasian Basin and the Canadian Basin. The Central Basin is about 3, 800 meters in depth.

        The Arctic area is very cold. Surface water temperatures can drop to -2 degrees Celsius. Cold dry air covers the Arctic Ocean, for this helps warm air and moisture getting to the Arctic. Therefore this makes it so there is light snowfall in the area.

        Over coastal waters in summer when warm air from the land goes over the Arctic Ocean, there is usually fog. This is common. There are also Arctic hurricanes that form unexpectedly above the ocean in a few areas of the Arctic.

        Sea ice and glaciers cover most of the Arctic Ocean. Pack ice covers the whole ocean by March. The pack ice is created by the warm current called the Guelf Stream. The average thickness of this ice is two meters thick.