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Barents Sea

LC control no.sh 85011827
Geographic headingBarents Sea
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Geographic subdivision usageBarents Sea
Variant(s)Barents hav
Barents havet
Barent︠s︡evo more
Barentshavet
Barent︠s︡ovo more
Murmean Sea
See alsoSeas
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Found inWork cat.: Penrose, B. Stalin's gold, c1982.
BGN, Jan. 20, 1983 (Barents Sea, sea, 74⁰00ʹN, 36⁰00ʹE; variants: Barentsovo More; Barentsevo More; Barents Hav; Mer de Barentsz)
Lippincott.
Acad. Amer. (Barents Sea: formerly called the Murmean Sea, is an extension of the Arctic Ocean lying north of Norway and Russia)
Britannica Micro. (Barents Sea: outlying portion of the Arctic Ocean. The sea was known to Vikings and medieval Russians as the Murmean Sea. It first appeared under its modern name in a chart published in 1853, honouring a 16th century Dutch seeker of the northeast passage to Asia, Willem Barents.)
BGN sea; 74°00ʹ00ʺN 036°00ʹ00ʺE