Kara Sea

The Kara Sea (Russian Карское море, Karskoje more) is a north of Russia or Asia -lying marginal sea of ​​the Arctic Ocean.

It is bordered to the west of the arc-shaped archipelago of Novaya Zemlya, which contains Europe 's fourth-largest and sixth largest island. In the east, the Severnaya Zemlya Archipelago and the Taimyr Peninsula form the framework. In the south of the Kara Sea bordered, among others, the Yamal Peninsula, which merges into the West Siberian lowlands to the south. It also borders the Gydan Peninsula, which merges to the east with the North Siberian Lowland.

The Kara Sea extends from about 70 ° to 80 ° north latitude, and from 55 ° to 105 ° east and 127 m with an average depth of the sea is relatively flat; its lowest point, which is located not far northeast of the north island of Novaya Zemlya, located at 620 m.

From the Kara Sea in the southwest directs the Karastraße or Jugorstraße located northwest and southeast of the Waigatsch Island, adjacent to the western Barents Sea and on the east by the Wilkizkistraße extending between Severnaya Zemlya and the Taimyr Peninsula, to the east subsequent Laptev Sea about.

In the Kara Sea flowing from the direction of the south in particular, the massive volume of water Ob and Yenisei one which open with approximately 800 and 400 km of estuaries or the Gulf. Both currents are responsible for the flow conditions within that sea due to their feeding the Kara Sea, very large supply of fresh water and also determine its climate.