Barents Sea - Wikipedia
The Barents Sea was the site of a notable World War II engagement which later became known as the Battle of the Barents Sea. Under the command of Oskar Kummetz , German warships sank minelayer HMS Bramble and destroyer HMS Achates but lost destroyer Z16 Friedrich Eckoldt .
Barents Sea | Map, Depth, & Facts | Britannica
2024年10月29日 · Barents Sea, outlying portion of the Arctic Ocean 800 miles (1,300 km) long and 650 miles (1,050 km) wide and covering 542,000 square miles (1,405,000 square km). Its average depth is 750 feet (229 metres), plunging to a maximum of 2,000 feet (600 metres) in the major Bear Island Trench.
Barents Sea - WorldAtlas
2021年2月24日 · Covering an area of 1,405,000 km 2, the Barents Sea is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean. A marginal sea is a part of the ocean that is partially enclosed by land in the form of peninsulas, archipelagos, or islands. It is located along the northern coasts of Norway and Russia.
Barents Sea - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Barents Sea is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean. [1] . It is north of Norway and Russia. [2] . It was called the Murman Sea in the Middle Ages. The new name is from the Dutch navigator Willem Barents. It is a rather deep shelf sea. The average depth is 760 feet (230 m) and maximum depth is 1,480 feet (450 m).
A Bloom in a Changing Barents Sea - NASA Earth Observatory
2023年8月4日 · As the climate changes, increasing amounts of warm water from the Atlantic Ocean are flowing into the Barents Sea and reducing the amount of sea ice. As these changes play out, scientists are using satellites to track how phytoplankton populations are responding.
Barents Sea – Norsk Polarinstitutt
The Barents Sea is shallow, with an average depth of 230 metres. It extends from the deep Norwegian Sea in the west, which reaches a depth of 2500 metres, to the coast of Novaya Zemlya in the east and from the coast of Northern Norway and Russia in the south, to 80°.
Barents Sea - Barentsinfo
The Barents Sea contains one of Europe’s last large, clean and relatively undisturbed marine ecosystems. The Barents Sea covers an area of approximately 1.6 million km 2, has an average depth of ca. 230 m, and a maximum depth of about 500 …
Barents Sea - The Encyclopedia of Earth
Seas of the World The Barents Sea is one of the Arctic seas found on the Siberian shelf; part of the larger Arctic mediterranean Sea (are mostly enclosed by land). It is located north of the mainlands of Norway and Russia (and the White Sea), …
Barents Sea - Students | Britannica Kids | Homework Help
A major outlying portion of the Arctic Ocean, the Barents Sea was named for Willem Barents, a 16th-century Dutch navigator who explored it while searching for a northeast passage to Asia.
Barents Sea - Physical characteristics - Barentsinfo.org
The main feature of the winter air temperature distribution is the so-called warmth pole in the ice-free southwestern Barents Sea, where the average January sea temperature is close to 0°C. In the eastern part of the region, the severity of the winter regime both on land and in the southeastern Barents Sea increases sharply.