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The Greenland Sea exists next to the Norwegian Sea.
The Greenland Sea exists next to the Norwegian Sea.

The Greenland Sea is an area of the Arctic Ocean between Greenland, Jan Mayen and Iceland, spanning some 465,000 square miles (1,205,000 square km). Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1000x913, 512 KB) A map showing the location of the Norwegian Sea in the North Atlantic Ocean. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1000x913, 512 KB) A map showing the location of the Norwegian Sea in the North Atlantic Ocean. ... The Norwegian Sea (Norwegian: Norskehavet) is part of the North Atlantic Ocean northwest of Norway, located between the North Sea (i. ...


It is the arm of the Arctic Ocean and the main outlet of the Arctic Ocean to the Atlantic. Because of drifting arctic ice, the northern part is rarely open to navigation. The Atlantic Ocean is Earths second-largest ocean, covering approximately one_fifth of its surface. ...


Average depth of the Greenland Sea is close to 4,750 feet (1,450 m). The deepest recorded point has been found at 16,000 feet (4,800 m).


The Greenland Sea is densely inhabited by lower life forms from the base of the food chain. Large invertebrates, fish (such as cod, herring, redfish, halibut, and plaice), birds and mammals (including seals, whales, and dolphins) all feed on the smaller invertebrates and small organisms. Invertebrate is a term coined by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck to describe any animal without a spinal column. ... The Guppy (Poecilia reticulata) is one of the most popular freshwater aquarium fish species in the world. ... Species Gadus morhua Gadus macrocephalus Gadus ogahvgfgvbc Cod surfacing This article is about codfish; for other meanings, see COD. Cod is the common name for the genus Gadus of fish, belonging to the family Gadidae, and is also used in the common name of a variety of other fishes. ... Species Clupea alba Clupea bentincki Clupea caspiopontica Clupea chrysotaenia Clupea elongata Clupea halec Clupea harengus Clupea inermis Clupea leachii Clupea lineolata Clupea minima Clupea mirabilis Clupea pallasii Clupea sardinacaroli Clupea sulcata Herrings are small oily fish of the genus Clupea found in the temperate, shallow waters of the North Atlantic... Binomial name Micropterus punctulatus (Rafinesque, 1819) The spotted bass (Micropterus punctulatus) is a species of freshwater fish in the sunfish family (Centrarchidae) of order Perciformes. ... A large halibut with a fisher to its right A halibut is a type of flatfish from the family of the righteye flounders (Pleuronectidae). ... Binomial name Pleuronectes platessa Linnaeus, 1758 European plaice (Pleuronectes platessa) are a commercially important flatfish occurring on the sandy bottoms of the European shelf. ... Orders Multituberculata (extinct) Palaeoryctoides (extinct) Triconodonta (extinct) Subclass Australosphenida Ausktribosphenida Monotremata Subclass Eutheria (excludes extinct ancestors) Afrosoricida Anagaloidea (extinct) Arctostylopida (extinct) Artiodactyla Carnivora Cetacea Chiroptera Cimolesta (extinct) Cingulata Creodonta (extinct) Condylarthra (extinct) Dermoptera Desmostylia (extinct) Dinocerata (extinct) Embrithopoda (extinct) Hyracoidea Insectivora Lagomorpha Leptictida (extinct) Litopterna (extinct) Macroscelidea Mesonychia (extinct) Notoungulata... Families Odobenidae Otariidae Phocidae A Pacific walrus A leopard seal on Kerguelen Pinnipeds (fin-feet, lit. ... A Fin whale The term whale is ambiguous: it can refer to all cetaceans, to just the larger ones, or only to members of particular families within the order Cetacea. ... Genera See article below. ... A crab is an example of an organism. ...


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