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Bookmark or Share- Barents Sea | Map, Depth, & Facts | BritannicaBarents 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 - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThe 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).
- Barents Sea - WikipediaThe Barents Sea is a rather shallow shelf sea with an average depth of 230 metres (750 ft), and it is an important site for both fishing and hydrocarbon exploration. It is bordered by the Kola Peninsula to the south, the shelf edge towards the Norwegian Sea to the west, the archipelagos of Svalbard to the northwest, Franz Josef Land to the ...
- Barents Sea - BarentsinfoThe 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 m at the western end of Bear Island Trough.
- Still Arctic?—The changing Barents Sea | Elementa: Science of the ...The Barents Sea is one of the Polar regions where current climate and ecosystem change is most pronounced. Here we review the current state of knowledge of the physical, chemical and biological systems in the Barents Sea.
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