BARENTS

See also:

• SEA (in O. Eng. sae, a common Teutonic word; cf. Ger. See, Dutch Zee, &c.; the ultimate source is uncertain)
• SEA, COMMAND OF THE

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