Kara Sea

Also known as Icy Sea, the Icy Sea, Ice Sea, the Ice Sea, Karskoye More, Karskoye Sea, Glacial Sea, the Glacial Sea

marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean north of Russia and east of Nova Zembla

AI overview

The Kara Sea is a body of water in the Arctic Ocean located north of Russia and to the east of Nova Zembla. It matters because it is an important part of the Arctic region and serves as a passage for shipping and resource exploration in the far north.

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: sea
Part of: Arctic Ocean
Has part: Baydaratskaya Bay
Named after: Kara
Country: Russia
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category for the water basin: Category:Drainage basins of the Kara Sea
Commons category: Kara Sea
located in/on physical feature: Arctic Ocean
topic's main category: Category:Kara Sea
basin country: Russia
vertical depth: 620
on focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4

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Encyclopedic overview

The Kara Sea is a marginal sea, separated from the Barents Sea to the west by the Kara Strait and Novaya Zemlya, and from the Laptev Sea to the east by the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago. Ultimately the Kara, Barents and Laptev Seas are all extensions of the Arctic Ocean north of Siberia.

The Kara Sea's northern limit is marked geographically by a line running from Cape Kohlsaat in Graham Bell Island, Franz Josef Land, to Cape Molotov (Arctic Cape), the northernmost point of Komsomolets Island in Severnaya Zemlya.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kara Sea” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.