Ice covered waters surrounding the North Pole; mostly covered with solid ice or with ice floes and icebergs WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

The Arctic Ocean is the smallest and shallowest of the world's five major oceans. Wikipedia

Smallest, shallowest, coldest, and northernmost of the world's major oceans Wikidata

The smallest and most poorly studied of the oceans on earth. It covers an area of 14 million square km that is divided by three submarine ridges, i.e. the Alpha Ridge, the Lomonosov Ridge, and an extension of the mid-Atlantic ridge. It is also nearly landlocked, covered year-round by pack ice, and the third of its area is continental shelf. OmegaWiki

The smallest of the five oceans of the Earth, on and around the North Pole, bordered by the three continents of Asia, Europe and North America. Wiktionary

The smallest of the five oceans of the Earth, on and around the North Pole. Wiktionary (translation)