Definition of Barents Sea

1. Noun. The part of the Arctic Ocean to the north of Norway and Russia.

Group relationships: Arctic Ocean
Generic synonyms: Sea
Terms within: White Sea

Definition of Barents Sea

1. Proper noun. A part of the Arctic Ocean located north of Norway and northwestern Russia. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Barents Sea

Barclaycards
Barclays Bank
Barcoo rot
Barcoo vomit
Barcroft
Barcroft-Warburg apparatus
Barcroft-Warburg technique
Bardeen
Bardet
Bardinet
Bardinet's ligament
Bardolino
Barents Island
Barents Region
Barents Sea (current term)
Bargoens
Barguna District
Bari
Barisal District
Barisal Division
Barish
Barkan
Barker
Barking
Barking and Dagenham
Barkley
Barkman
Barkman's reflex

Literary usage of Barents Sea

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1882)
"The experience in ioe navigation there acquired, either with or without steam, is of no avail in the Barents Sea, because the circumstances are entirely ..."

2. Through Siberia, the Land of the Future by Fridtjof Nansen (1914)
"... the ice-pilot : Leaving Norway : The Barents Sea, a sunken continent : Our prospects : The wireless; no connexion : Through the Kara Strait in fog, ..."

3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1900)
"Physical Observations in the Barents Sea. By WS BRUCE. 3. Report of the Committee on African Climatology. See Reports, p. 448. 4. Seismology in relation to ..."

4. The Journal of Conchology (1879)
"THE MOLLUSCA OF Barents Sea, BETWEEN SPITZBERGEN AND NOVAYA ... back with him several bottles filled with specimens obtained by dredging in the Barents Sea, ..."

5. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1880)
"26° E. After stopping at Vardo, the explorers took many deep sea soundings and serial temperatures and obtained dredgings in the Barents sea, arriving in ..."

Other Resources:

Search for Barents Sea on Dictionary.com!Search for Barents Sea on Thesaurus.com!Search for Barents Sea on Google!Search for Barents Sea on Wikipedia!