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The Northern Sea Route (NSR) is the shortest shipping route between the western part of Eurasia and the Asia-Pacific region. [ 2 ] Administratively, the Northern Sea Route begins at the boundary between the Barents and Kara Seas (the Kara Strait) and ends in the Bering Strait (Cape Dezhnev). The NSR straddles the seas of the Arctic Ocean (Kara ...
Northeast Passage. The Northeast Passage (abbreviated as NEP; Russian: Северо-Восточный проход, romanized:Severo-Vostochnyy prokhod, Norwegian: Nordøstpassasjen) is the shipping route between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, along the Arctic coasts of Norway and Russia. [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] The western route through the islands ...
The Second Kamchatka Expedition lasted roughly from 1733 to 1743 and later was called the Great Northern Expedition due to the immense scale of its achievements. The goal was to find and map the eastern reaches of Siberia, and hopefully the western shores of North America. Peter I had a vision for the 18th-century Russian Navy to map a Northern ...
In 2006, a scheduled cruise liner (MS Bremen) successfully ran the Northwest Passage, [70] helped by satellite images telling the location of sea ice. On May 19, 2007, a French sailor, Sébastien Roubinet, and one other crew member left Anchorage, Alaska , in Babouche , a 7.5-metre (25 ft) ice catamaran designed to sail on water and slide over ice.
It is located between the Arctic Cape to the north, the coast of Siberia to the south, the New Siberian Islands to the west and Cape Billings, close to Chukotka, and Wrangel Island to the east. This sea borders on the Laptev Sea to the west and the Chukchi Sea to the east. This sea is one of the least studied in the Arctic area.
By 2100, the Northern Sea Route will be passable all year, cutting shipping distances by 40% and travel time by 30%—but raising concerns over climate change. By 2100, the Northern Sea Route will ...
The city of Murmansk is an important port on the Northern Sea Route. [59] The largest airports are the Murmansk Airport, which handles international flights to Scandinavian countries, and the joint military-civilian Kirovsk-Apatity Airport [59] located 15 kilometers (9 mi) southeast of Apatity.
The Chukotka Mountains are located in the central/western part of the peninsula, which is bounded by the Chukchi Sea to the north, the Bering Sea to the south, and the Bering Strait to the east, where at its easternmost point it is only about 60 km (37 mi) from Seward Peninsula in Alaska; this is the smallest distance between the land masses of ...