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The Arctic is an ocean. The southern pole is a continent surrounded by ocean. The North Pole is an ocean, or northern waters. It's an ocean surrounded by land, basically.
Sylvia Earle
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Sylvia Earle
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: August 30
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New Jersey
Sylvia Alice Earle
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