Groomland Passage – is a shortcut route to Svalbard made by the pomors (the native Russian population living along the White Sea coast), which took 8–9 days and passed through: the White Sea – the North of the Kola Peninsula – the Bear Island – Svalbard.
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(2017). Groomland Passage. In: The Western Arctic Seas Encyclopedia. Encyclopedia of Seas. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25582-8_70018
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