Volcano At The Bottom Of The Barents Sea:
Geologists have recently discovered a never-before-seen volcano at the bottom of the Barents Sea off the coast of Norway, which is erupting with mud, fluids, and gas from the planet’s interior.
- Barents Sea is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean.
- It is located along the northern coasts of Norway and Russia and divided between Norwegian and Russian territorial waters.
- The sea was known to Vikings and medieval Russians as the Murmean Sea.
- The current name of the sea is after the historical Dutch navigator Willem Barentsz.
- It is bounded by the Svalbard archipelago in the northwest, Franz Josef Land islands in the northeast, the Novaya Zemlya archipelago in the east, the Norwegian Seaand the Greenland Sea in the west, and by the Kola Peninsula in the south.
- It is separated from the Kara Sea by the Kara Strait and the Novaya Zemlya archipelago.
- The White Sea and the Pechora Sea are two parts of the Barents Sea.
- It is a shallow sea, with an average depth of 230 metres.
- The sea’s deepest point is 600 m at the Bear Island Trench.
- The Barents Sea faces a subarctic climate.
- The waters of the Barents Sea have a high salinity of 34 parts per 1,000.
- Due to the North Atlantic drift, the Barents Sea has a high biological production compared to other oceans of similar latitude.
