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Beaufort Sea
The Beaufort Sea is a sea of the Arctic Ocean, covering 431,132 km² — the #46 largest of the world's 101 named ocean and sea areas. Here's how it ranks, what borders it, and the live conditions at its centre right now.
Boundaries & area: Marine Regions (VLIZ), IHO Sea Areas v3 — from the IHO “Limits of Oceans & Seas” (S-23). MRGID 4256.
Live from Open-Meteo Marine at 72.1°, -136.8° (the sea's representative centre). A near-real-time model estimate.
How deep is the Beaufort Sea?
The IHO sea-area dataset that draws this map records each sea's name, boundary and surface area — not its depth, which varies enormously from the shallow shelf at its edges to its deepest trench. Rather than quote a single misleading number, we measure the water column directly: the live ocean currents trace its motion, and the deep-ocean layers (Argo floats and the descend-here column, coming to the Ocean canvas) read real temperature and depth as you go down.
SEE IT ON THE MAP
See the Beaufort Sea coloured on the live oceans-&-seas map.