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See also:NORWEGIAN See also:SEA , the sea enclosed between See also:Norway, the See also:Shetland and See also:Faeroe Islands, See also:Iceland, See also:Greenland, See also:Spitsbergen and See also:Bear See also:Island. Its See also:basin is bounded on the E. by the Spitsbergen See also:platform, the See also:continental shelf of the See also:Barents Sea and the Norwegian See also:coast: on the S. and S.W. by the See also:North Sea, the Wyville-See also:Thomson See also:ridge, the Faeroe-Iceland ridge and the Iceland-Greenland ridge; on the W. by the coast of Greenland and on the N., so far as is known, by a ridge extending from Greenland to Spitsbergen. The Norwegian Sea is thus placed between the basins of the See also:Atlantic on the one See also:side and of the See also:Arctic Ocean on the other: the mean See also:depth of the submarine ridge separating it from the former being about 300 fathoms, and from the latter probably about 400 fathoms. The basin itself consists of a See also:series of deeps, separated from one another by transverse ridges. See also:Nansen and Helland-See also:Hansen give the following results of measurements of the See also:area: Area of See also:surface . See also:Water area at 60o metres „ See also:I000 „ 2000 3000 See also:Volume Mean depth The Norwegian Sea forms the See also:meeting-See also:place of See also:waters coming from the Atlantic and Arctic oceans, and it also receives coastal waters from the North Sea and connecting areas, and from the Barents Sea. As communication with other basins is cut off comparatively near the surface, the inflow and outflow of waters must take place entirely in the upper strata, and the isolated water in the deep basin has typical See also:physical characters of its own. The See also:distribution and circulation of these waters are of See also:great complexity, and have formed the subject of study by oceanographers since the region was first opened up by the Norwegian North Atlantic Expedition, 1876-1878. Much fresh See also:light has been thrown on the subject by the See also:work of the See also:International See also:Council for the study of the sea, and more particularly by the Norwegian investigators Nansen and Helland-Hansen, whose See also:report on Norwegian See also:Fishery and Marine Investigations (vol. ii. No. 2, 1909) contains a See also:complete survey of See also:present knowledge. (H. N. Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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