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The Barents–Kara Ice Sheet was an ice sheet which existed during the Weichselian Glaciation.It is named after the seas it was centred upon: Barents Sea and Kara Sea.The ice sheet covered the Pechora Sea, the southeastern part of the Barents Sea, Novaya Zemlya and the Kara Sea, likely reaching up to Svalbard and Franz Joseph Land in the north.
The Kara Sea [a] is a marginal sea, separated from the Barents Sea to the west by the Kara Strait and Novaya Zemlya, and from the Laptev Sea to the east by the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago. Ultimately the Kara, Barents and Laptev Seas are all extensions of the Arctic Ocean north of Siberia .
The Barents Sea (/ ˈ b ær ə n t s / BARR-ənts, also US: / ˈ b ɑːr ə n t s / BAR-ənts; [1] Norwegian: Barentshavet, Urban East Norwegian: [ˈbɑ̀ːrəntsˌhɑːvə]; [2] Russian: Баренцево море, romanized: Barentsevo More) is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean, [3] located off the northern coasts of Norway and Russia and divided between Norwegian and Russian territorial ...
Willem Barentsz (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈʋɪləm ˈbaːrənts]; c. 1550 – 20 June 1597), anglicized as William Barents or Barentz, was a Dutch navigator, cartographer, and Arctic explorer. Barentsz went on three expeditions to the far north in search for a Northeast passage .
To the west of the Kara Gate is the southeastern part of the Pechora Sea, which freezes in winter when the influence of Atlantic cyclones and warm currents in the Barents Sea weakens. The presence or absence of ice cover in the strait usually coincides with its presence in the Pechora Sea to the west-southwest of it.
Ice Age lakes of Siberia and Central Asia [citation needed]. The West Siberian Glacial Lake, also known as West Siberian Lake (Russian: Западно-Сибирское море) or Mansiyskoe Lake (Russian: Мансийское озеро, Mansi Lake), was a periglacial lake formed when the Arctic Ocean outlets for each of the Ob and Yenisei rivers were blocked by the Barents-Kara Ice Sheet ...
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On 17 August, west of the Yugorsky Strait, the narrow sound between the Pechora Sea and the Kara Sea, at the south-eastern end of the Barents Sea, U-209 spotted a Soviet Secret Service (NKVD) convoy, comprising the tugs Komsomolets and Nord towing the lighter Sh-500, P-4 and Komiles, a tug with an unserviceable engine.