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BARENTS SEA

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 397 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BARENTS See also:SEA , that See also:part of the See also:Arctic Ocean which is demarcated by the See also:north See also:coast of See also:Europe, the islands of Novaya Zemlya, See also:Franz Josef See also:Land and See also:Spitsbergen, and smaller intervening islands; it was named after the Dutch navigator. Omitting the See also:great inlet of the See also:White Sea in the See also:south, it extends from about 67° to 8o° N., and from 20° to 6o° E. The See also:southern part, off the Murman coast of the See also:Kola See also:peninsula, is sometimes called the Murman Sea.

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