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Arctic Archipelago

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Arctic Archipelago
A group of more than 50 large islands of northern Canada in the Arctic Ocean between North America and Greenland.
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Noun1.Arctic Archipelago - all the islands that lie to the north of mainland Canada and the Arctic Circle
Canada - a nation in northern North America; the French were the first Europeans to settle in mainland Canada; "the border between the United States and Canada is the longest unguarded border in the world"

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The low salinity surface water layer of the Labrador Sea may have resulted at least partly from enhanced Arctic freshwater supplies through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago channels (thus, their partial rerouting from Fram Strait, northeast of Greenland, to this western route).
 
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