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Barents Sea

The Barents Sea ( BARR-??nts, also US: BAR-??nts; Norwegian: Barentshavet, Urban East Norwegian: [??b??????r??nts??h????v??]; Russian: ?????????????????? ????????, romanized: Barentsevo More) is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean, located off the northern coasts of Norway and Russia and divided between Norwegian and Russian territorial waters. It was known earlier among Russians as the Northern Sea, Pomorsky Sea or Murman Sea ("Norse Sea"); the current name of the sea is after the historical Dutch navigator Willem Barentsz. The Barents Sea is a rather shallow shelf sea with an average depth of 230 metres (750 ft), and it is an important site...

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