Laptev Sea


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nounpart of the Arctic Ocean to the north of Siberia (between the Taimyr Peninsula and the New Siberian Islands) that is icebound most of the year

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Data gathering with the M/V Akademik Fersman ship will begin in early August with the survey of 4,500 km in the Laptev Sea, before the vessel moves to the East Siberian Sea to acquire an additional 3,200 km.
Along the coast is a wide continental shelf, running eastward from the Barents Sea in the west to the Kara Sea, the Laptev Sea, the East Siberian Sea, and the Chukchi Sea.
This submarine mountain range, named after 18th century Russian explorer and artist Mikhail Lomonosov, stretches from the Laptev Sea off the Siberian coast across the North Pole to somewhere around the Canadian Ellesmere Island and the Peary Land peninsula of Greenland.
Commonly referred to as the Greenland whale, bowhead whales in the eastern North Atlantic have been observed in the waters north of Iceland and as far east as the Laptev Sea. Between 1940 and September 1990, 37 bowhead whale sightings have been recorded in this region, but some of these sightings were not unequivocally bowhead whales (Moore and Reeves, 1993:Table 9.2).
Millions of ice floes are carried by the Transpolar Drift, a sea-ice conveyer that runs across the arctic basin from the Laptev Sea to the Fram Strait.
Our expedition of June through August 1991 took us across the whole vertical expanse of Siberia, from the mountains rimming Lake Baikal in the south to the river's mouth, where the Lena empties into the Laptev Sea of the Arctic Ocean above the 72nd parallel.
Moorings in 2002-11 showed a gradual, fourfold decrease of boundary current speed from 24 to 6 cm [s.sup.-1] on the route between Fram Strait and the Lomonosov Ridge, accompanied by transformation of the flow from mainly barotropic in Fram Strait to baroclinic flow between Spitsbergen and the central Laptev Sea slope (Pnyushkov et al.
A photographic survey of the epibenthic megafauna of the Arctic Laptev Sea shelf: Distribution, abundance, and estimates of biomass and organic carbon demand.
The agreements include plans to explore seven new blocks in the Chukchi Sea, Laptev Sea and Kara Sea that are considered among the most promising and least explored offshore areas globally.
Seasonal variability of Atlantic water on the continental slope of the Laptev Sea during 2002-2004.