The Kara Strait is a narrow channel of water connecting the Kara Sea and Barents Sea in northern Russia. It was an important waterway in the early exploration of the Northern Sea Route. 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. ... The Kara Sea (Russian: КаÌÑ€Ñкое моÌре) 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). ... Map showing the location of the Barents Sea. ... The Northern Sea Route (Russian Северный морÑкой путь) is a shipping lane from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean along the Siberian coast of Russia. ...
The Kara Sea is part of the Arctic Ocean (in the area sometimes called the Arctic Mediterranean Sea) off northern Siberia, bound by the KaraStrait (West, connecting to the Barents Sea) and the Severnaya Zemlya Islands and the Northern Land Archipelago (East, and the Laptev Sea).
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.
It separates the Barents Sea on the W. from the Kara Sea on the E. With Vaygach Island, between it and the mainland, Novaya Zemlya forms a continuation of the Pae-Khoy hills.
Then farther N. is the Kostin Shar, a strait separating Mezhdusharskiy Island from the coast, and having at its N. entrance South Goose Cape, which forms the S. extremity of Goose Land (Gusinaya Zemlya) in 72° N. Next follows Moller Bay, between Goose Land and Cape Britvin, with several minor bays affording anchorages.
On the W. coast of the N. island are Krestovaya, Mashigin and Nordenskjdld bays, and to the N. are several groups of islands - Gorbovyi, Pankratiev, the Gulf Stream Islands and the Orange Islands.
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