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The Barents Sea is located in
Norse
with
Russia
In the north, it is one of the marginal seas of the Arctic Ocean. It is named after the Dutch navigator who explored the area twice in the 16th century and died there
William Barents
.
The Barents Sea is the most geographically advantageous among the marginal seas of the Arctic Ocean. The total area of the Barents Sea is 1.37 million square kilometers, of which 94% is located on the continental shelf, and the continental shelf at the bottom is more than 1,300 kilometers wide, which is the widest in the world
Continental shelf
One of them.
Due to ocean currents, the sea in the southwest is ice-free all year round. The Barents Sea is located close to a part of the European continent. Northeast of Scandinavia. South to Russia; North to Spitzbergen; Northeast is
The Franz Josef Land Islands
; East to
Novaya Zemlya
; West to Bear Island line.
[1]
On August 13, 2000, the backbone of the Russian Navy
The Kursk
Nuclear submarine
Sank in the Barents Sea. The Barents Sea, a remote, quiet area, has suddenly gained fame and attracted great attention from the world.
- Chinese name
- The Barents Sea
- Foreign name
- Barents Sea (English)
- Area product
- 1405000 km²
- North-south span
- 1684 km
- East-west span
- 2220 km
- Mean depth
- 230 m
- Maximum depth
- 450 m (North Point)
- Typical salinity
- 3.5% (35 psu)
- Neighboring countries
- Norway, Russia
- Surrounding water
- The Arctic Ocean Norwegian Sea, White Sea
- Main port
- Murmansk
- Main island
- Korguyev Island Barents Island, Bear Island
- Main river
- The Pechora River
The Barents Sea is
The Arctic Ocean
The marginal sea, located on the northwest coast of Europe and
Novaya Zemlya
,
Vajach Island
,
The Franz Josef Land Islands
,
Svalbard
,
Kumashima
Between.
The sea floor is covered with sand and silt, and runs from east to west through the Bear Island Trench, which is 480 to 960 meters deep, and several smaller trenches. The north has the central and
Perseus
(Perseus)
Submarine plateau
Southeast many shoals, fish clustered. The only island in the southeast (excluding those on the periphery) is Kolguyev. The western part of the mainland coast is high, with steep mountains and a white sea
Kanin Peninsula
To the east, the coast is low and flat with many shallow bays.
The area is 1.405 million square kilometers, the total volume of sea water is 322,000 cubic kilometers, the average depth is 229 meters, the maximum depth is 600 meters. The continental shelf in the southern part of the sea covers an area of 1.27 million square kilometers. The Midwest lies across
Bear Island Trench
Several deep trenches, 480~960 meters deep.
Geographical location of the Barents Sea
Ice-free ports along the continent include: Murmansk,
Teriberka
(Teribyorka) and Norwegian
Wald
(Vardo).
Murmansk
Teriberka and Valde are inside the Arctic Circle
Open port
It is navigable all year round, but the route to the east is blocked by sea ice, and navigable conditions are available for only two or three months of the year.
Annual precipitation is 500 mm in the south and 250 mm in the north. The Spitzbergen tributaries of the North Point Stream and the Norwegian Stream enter the sea. Seawater salinity is as high as 34‰.
The Barents Sea has a wide continental shelf, so various Marine resources are very rich, especially fishery resources and oil and gas resources are the most prominent. There are oil, natural gas, manganese nodules and other mineral deposits in the sea area.
At the same time, due to the inflow of warm currents, nutritious salt is rich, conducive to the growth of fish, becoming the world's largest
Fishing ground
One of the rich flounder, herring, cod, salmon, catfish,
capelin
Let's wait. main
Marine mammal
There are whales,
seal
,
Polar bear
,
Arctic fox
Let's wait.
Seal catches in the southeast have been severely restricted due to overfishing and declining catches.
Arctic explorer
by
The North Atlantic Current
The influence, in much of the Barents Sea, forms an interface known as a "polar front," which is made up of warm Atlantic water and cold water
The Arctic Ocean
It's made by the confluence of water. In these waters nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus are especially abundant, so plankton flourishes. These plankton are food for fish, so the Barents Sea is rich in fishery resources and is one of the important fishing grounds of Russia.
In addition, the shallow sea of the continental shelf on the north and south sides of the Barents Sea is buried in a large number of oil and gas resources, and is easy to explore and develop
Norse
Important oil and gas potential development zones in both countries.
The Barents Sea has an important impact on Russia not only economically but also in terms of transportation and military. The European part of Russia, although it has many coastal areas, has free and unhindered access to the greater open sea only in the Barents Sea.
The Barents Sea
The Barents Sea is an area of the eastern half of the Arctic Ocean. To the east it is separated from the Kara Sea by Novaya Zemlya; To the west, it is separated from the Atlantic Ocean by the southernmost line of Nordchen Cape - Bear Island - Sispitbergen Island, the northernmost point of mainland Norway; Bordering Norway and Russia to the south; To the north, it is separated by the Svalbard-Franz Josef line from the basin in the central part of the Arctic Ocean.
The Barents Sea
The north and west sides of the Barents Sea are lined with islands, but there is not even a single reef inside, and the sea is very wide. Secondly, the north side of the Barents Sea, due to get
Svalbard
And the protection of the Franz Joseph Islands, blocking the invasion of the Arctic sea ice pack; To the east, Novaya Zemlya acts as a natural barrier, making it difficult for the Kara Sea's never-melting sea ice to pass through. It is in this direction that the powerful
Gulf Stream
It sends a large amount of warm and salty water to the Barents Sea, so that the water temperature of the Barents Sea (4-12 ° C) is much higher than that of the surrounding Arctic Ocean, so the Barents Sea is known as the "warm pool" of the Arctic Ocean.
The Barents Sea
The Barents Sea, so to speak, is Russian
Geomantic land
And an important gateway, but it also has many disadvantages. Under the combined influence of warm cyclones in the Atlantic Ocean and cold anticyclones in the Arctic Ocean, the weather is extremely unstable
storm
One of the largest bodies of water, strong winds often set off waves up to more than 3 meters high, "raging" against the southern mainland coast. Moreover, most of its depth is between 100 and 350 meters, with an average depth of 230 meters, which is a typical continental shelf sea. Also,
Submarine topography
It's very complex, very undulating, very irregular, with gentle uplift. And a sunken sea basin. Because of the varied topography of the sea floor, the distribution of water mass, the flow direction and the type of sediment have become complicated and difficult to find, which is a disadvantageous factor to the ships sailing on the sea. But for Russia, the Barents Sea remains an important gateway to the ocean.
Phytoplankton in the Barents Sea
In 1596, in
Amsterdam
Financed by merchants, Barents commanded three ships and embarked on a third expedition. On this historic voyage, they not only discovered the islands of Spitzbergen, but also reached 79°39 'north latitude, setting a new human northward record. Later, Barents continued to the northeast until their ship became frozen on 26 August, and he and his crew became the first Europeans to overwinter in the Arctic. The weather was so cold that they had to put their fingers in their mouths to stay warm, and they were often exposed
Polar bear
The attack.
Despite this, the crew, with the encouragement of Barents, overcame all kinds of difficulties unimaginable to ordinary people and stubbornly survived. It was not until the following summer that the open boat finally broke free of the ice and returned to free waters. By this time, however, Barents was terminally ill. Before he died, he wrote three letters, hiding one in the chimney of their wintering house, and giving the other two to his companions separately, in case something should happen to them, so that some kind of written record could be passed on to the world.
Barents died on a floating block of ice on June 20, 1597, at the age of 47. More than two centuries later, in 1871, a Norwegian navigator returned to the place where the Barents had wintered and retrieved the letter from the chimney. Barents' voyages were not only well documented, but he also drew extremely accurate nautical charts along the way, which provided important evidence for later explorers. In his honor, the part of the sea north of northern Europe where he sailed is called the Barents Sea.
United Nations Environment Programme
The Barents Sea, the 10th largest in the world and located north of northern Europe and Russia, is being severely damaged in many ways, according to a report released on 24 August 2004.
The Barents Sea
Another disruptive factor is oil and gas pollution. Oil exploration and transportation activities in the Barents Sea are increasing, and the transport of oil and gas through the Barents Sea has increased significantly.
The third disruptive factor is that some countries are throwing around the Barents Sea
Radioactive waste
. Although the amount of radioactive waste is not large, it is enough to cause alarm.
The fourth disruptive factor is the introduction of new Marine species into the Barents Sea, which threatens the ecological balance. In recent years, a species called
King crab
The large crab has been introduced into the Barents Sea, and the rapid proliferation of this large crab has threatened other species and disrupted the ecological balance.
The UNEP report calls on relevant countries to pay attention to the ecological environment of the Barents Sea, develop new regulations, adopt new measures, and strictly implement international legal documents on the protection of the Marine environment.
On September 13, 1987, the famous "disaster" occurred in the Barents Sea.
Barents sea air scalpel
"The event.
[2]
Two Russian ships armed with nuclear weapons on March 23, 1994
Nuclear submarine
During military exercises in the Barents Sea.
seal
In the early morning of August 30, 2003, the Russian Navy "K-159" nuclear submarine was towed to the factory on the way to be dismantled, due to a storm float from the submarine and sank in the northwest waters of the Brents Sea Kirykin Island.
[4]
21 September 2007
The French company Total
The Snohvit gas field in the Barents Sea has started production and is expected to reach a stable level of nearly 5.7 billion m3 / year in 2008.
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