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Coordinates: 74°49′55″N, 71°18′43″E Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...

A map showing the location of the Kara Sea.

The Kara Sea (Russian: Ка́рское мо́ре) is part of the Arctic Ocean north of Siberia. It is separated from the Barents Sea to the west by the Kara Strait and Novaya Zemlya, and the Laptev Sea to the east by the Severnaya Zemlya. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (952x868, 382 KB) This map shows the location of the Kara Sea north of Russia. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (952x868, 382 KB) This map shows the location of the Kara Sea north of Russia. ... Siberian Federal District (darker red) and the broadest definition of Siberia (red) arctic northeast Siberia Udachnaya pipe Siberia (Russian: , Sibir; Tatar: ) is a vast region of Russia constituting almost all of Northern Asia and comprising a large part of the Euro-Asian Steppe. ... Location of the Barents Sea. ... A map showing the location of the Kara Strait. ... Novaya Zemlya (Russian: , lit. ... A map showing the location of the Laptev Sea. ... Severnaya Zemlya (Ð¡ÐµÐ²ÐµÑ€Ð½Ð°Ñ Ð—ÐµÐ¼Ð»Ñ, Russian, Northern Land) is an archipelago located in the Arctic Ocean. ...

It is roughly 1,450 kilometres long and 970 kilometres wide with an area of around 880,000 km² and a mean depth of 110 m.

The Kara receives a large amount of fresh water from the Ob, Yenisei, Pyasina, and Taimyra rivers, so its salinity is very variable. Ob (also Obi, Russian ÐžÐ±ÑŒ) is a river in West Siberia, Russia, the countrys fourth longest. ... The Yenisei (Ð•Ð½Ð¸ÑÐµÌÐ¹) is the greatest river system flowing to the Arctic Ocean, and the fifth longest river in the world. ... Pyasina River (Russian: ) is a river in Taymyr Autonomous Okrug in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. ... The Taymyr River (or Taimyr) is a river in the Taymyr Peninsula of northern Russia. ...

Its main ports are Novy Port and Dikson and it is important as a fishing ground although the sea is ice-bound for all but two months of the year. Significant discoveries of petroleum and natural gas, an extension of the West Siberian Oil Basin, have been made but have not yet been developed. The Yenisei watershed, Lake Baikal, and the settlements of Dikson, Dudinka, Turukhansk, Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk Dikson (Russian: ) is a closed urban-type settlement in Krasnoyarsk Krai. ... Pumpjack pumping an oil well near Lubbock, Texas Ignacy Åukasiewicz - inventor of the refining of kerosene from crude oil. ... Natural gas is gaseous fossil fuel consisting primarily of methane but including significant quantities of ethane, butane, propane, carbon dioxide, nitrogen, helium and hydrogen sulfide. ...

There is concern about the levels of nuclear waste the former Soviet Union dumped in the sea which included six nuclear submarine reactors and ten nuclear reactors, and the effect this will have on the marine environment. An International Atomic Energy Agency appraisal showed that releases are low and localised. USS Los Angeles A submarine is a specialized watercraft that can operate underwater. ... Nuclear power station at Leibstadt, Switzerland. ... The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) was established as an autonomous organization on July 29, 1957. ...

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International Atomic Energy Agency:Radiological Conditions of the Western Kara Sea

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Kara Sea - LoveToKnow 1911 (182 words)
	KARA SEA, a portion of the Arctic Ocean demarcated, and except on the north-west completely enclosed, by Novaya Zemlya, Vaygach Island and the Siberian coast.
	On the southeast Kara Bay penetrates deeply into the mainland, and to the west of this the short Kara river enters the sea.
	It had long the reputation of being almost constantly ice-bound, but after the Norwegian captain Johannesen had demonstrated its accessibility in 1869, and Nordenskield had crossed it to the mouth of the Yenisei in 1875, it was considered by many to offer a possible trade route between European Russia and the north of Siberia.

NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Kara Sea (789 words)
	It is separated from the Barents Sea to the west by the Kara Strait and Novaya Zemlya, and the Laptev Sea to the east by the Severnaya Zemlya.
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	The Kara Sea is part of the Arctic Ocean (in the area sometimes called the Arctic Mediterranean Sea) off northern Siberia, bound by the Kara Strait (West, connecting to the Barents Sea) and the Severnaya Zemlya Islands and the Northern Land Archipelago (East, and the Laptev Sea).

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