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Barents Sea

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The Barents Sea (formerly called the Murmean Sea) is an extension of the Arctic Ocean lying north of Norway and Russia. It was named in 1853 for Willem BARENTS, a 16th-century Dutch Explorer who sought a Northeast Passage to the Orient. It has an area of about 1,400,000 sq km (540,000 sq mi). In northern sections of the sea, the average winter air temperature is -25 deg C (-13 deg F), but the Russian port of Murmansk remains ice-free in winter, partly because of the North Cape Current.

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