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Sea ice Sea ice
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Barents Sea Barents Sea
Barents Sea arm of the Arctic Ocean, N of Norway and European Russia, partially enclosed by Franz Josef Land on the north, Novaya Zemlya on the east, and Svalbard on the west. Its waters are warmed by the remnants of the North Atlantic Drift , so that its ports, including Murmansk and Vardö,... Read more
Antarctica Antarctica
Antarctica , the fifth largest continent, c.5,500,000 sq mi (14,245,000 sq km), asymmetrically centered on the South Pole and almost entirely within the Antarctic Circle. Geology and Geography Antarctica consists of two major regions: W Antarctica (c.2,500,000 sq mi/6,475,000 sq km), a mountainous... Read more
passive margin passive margin
passive margins Continental margins, the linear zones that mark the position of the edge of continental crust, are classified as passive or active according to whether they are attached to adjacent oceanic crust, as part of the same plate, or detached from it across a plate boundary. Passive... Read more
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Pechenga Pechenga
Pechenga , Finnish Petsamo, town, NW European Russia, an ice-free port at the head of Pechenga Fjord on the Barents Sea and near the Norwegian border. It is also the northern terminus of an Arctic highway. Pechenga serves as the base for a fishing (notably herring) fleet. Located in an important... Read more
Black Sea Black Sea
Black Sea inland sea, c.159,600 sq mi (413,360 sq km), between SE Europe and Asia, connected with the Mediterranean Sea by the Bosporus, the Sea of Marmara, and the Dardanelles. It is c.750 mi (1,210 km) from east to west, up to 350 mi (560 km) wide, and has a maximum depth of 7,364 ft (2,245 m).... Read more
Bering Sea Bering Sea
Bering Sea c.878,000 sq mi (2,274,020 sq km), northward extension of the Pacific Ocean between Siberia and Alaska. It is screened from the Pacific proper by the Aleutian Islands. The Bering Strait connects it with the Arctic Ocean. The sea's largest embayments are the Gulf of Anadyr, Norton Sound,... Read more
pelagic pelagic
pelagic 1. In marine ecology, applied to the organisms that inhabit open water, i.e. plankton, nekton, and neuston (although neuston are fairly unimportant in such environments). 2. In ornithology, applied to sea-birds that come to land only to breed, and that spend the major part of their lives far... Read more
Willem Barents Willem Barents
Willem Barents The Dutch navigator Willem Barents (died 1597) was his country's renowned Arctic explorer, having discovered Spitsbergen and the Barents Sea. Willem Barents was born on the island of Terschelling off the Friesland coast of the Netherlands. He became the pupil of Petrus... Read more

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