Irminger Sea

62- 35Koordinaten: 62 ° N, 35 ° W

The Irminger Sea is a sea area in the North Atlantic. The northern boundary is located at the Greenland - Iceland - threshold in the Denmark Strait between Greenland and Iceland, which connects it to the Greenland Sea. To the southwest reaches down to Cape Farewell, the southern tip of Greenland, and is adjacent to this point in the Labrador Sea. To the south is the open North Atlantic. It is 480 km long and at its narrowest point 290 km wide, and covers an area of ​​800,000 km ² .. The average water depth is estimated at around 2800 meters. The ocean floor is occupied for the most part from Irmingerbecken, a spur of up to 4600 m deep Labrador Basin, which is bounded to the east by the Reykjanesrücken. The distinction is purely oceanographic, so marked no official boundaries or territories. The Irminger Sea is traditionally one of the main fishing grounds for the redfish.

It has its name from the Danish sea area Vice Admiral Carl Ludvig Christian Irminger (1802-1888), after whom the Irmingerstrom was named.