Arctic Appetizers

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A Bear of an Ocean Like a giant bear rambling across the northern sky is the constellation Arktos Ancient Greeks named the star group Arktos which means bear Later Arktos was changed to Arctic the name for the ocean surrounding the North Pole and the land surrounding the ocean The Arctic Ocean is almost circular and covers an area of about 5,440,000 square miles 14,089,535 square kilometers It is 13,123 feet 4,000 meters deep Unlike other oceans you can walk on this one Its ice is about 7 to 10 feet 2 to 3 meters thick and covers the water most of the year In some places the ice never melts CHEWON T HIS The Arctic Ocean surrounds the North Pole In 1958 the USS Nautilus submarine surfaced through the ice proving there was not a continent under the North Pole 4