Climate in the Barents Region

• Main Author: Benestad, Rasmus
• Format: Book
• Language: unknown
• Published: Oxford University Press 2018
• Subjects: Arctic; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Arctic Ocean; Barents Sea; Bering Strait; Litke; AMAP; Antarc*; barents region; British Antarctic Survey; International Polar Year; IPY; Northeast Passage; Sea ice; walrus*
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228620.013.655

The Barents Sea is a region of the Arctic Ocean named after one of its first known explorers (1594–1597), Willem Barentsz from the Netherlands, although there are accounts of earlier explorations: the Norwegian seafarer Ottar rounded the northern tip of Europe and explored the Barents and White Seas...