Norwegian Sea (Norskehavet) – is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean between the Scandinavian Peninsula and the islands of Shetland, Faroe, Iceland, Jan Mayen, and Bear. It borders on the Barents Sea in the East and the Greenland Sea in the West, and is limited in the South by an underwater ridge, which carries the islands of Faroe and Shetland. It has an area of approx. 1.547 million km2. The greatest depth is 3560 m. At the coast of Norway there are many shoals (the Lofoten sandbanks and others). The N.S. is crossed by the warm Norwegian Current (the northern branch of the North Atlantic Current), which keeps it nonfreezing. The average annual temperature on the surface of the water varies from +3° to +9 °C. The salinity is 34–35.2 ‰. The tides are semidiurnal, with a height up to 3.3 m. The sea is rich in fish (cod, herring). The main ports are Trondheim, Tromsø, and Narvik (Norway).
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(2017). Norwegian Sea (Norskehavet). In: The Western Arctic Seas Encyclopedia. Encyclopedia of Seas. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25582-8_140074
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