1) Kara Sea. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 ...Kara Sea, (kar´) (KEY) , Rus. Karskoye More, shallow section of the Arctic Ocean, off N Russia, between Severnaya Zemlya and Novaya Zemlya. It has an average depth... 2) Kara Sea. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth
Edition. 2000. ...and the Siberian mainland. Icebound much of the year, it is connected with the Barents Sea by Kara Strait.... 3) Yenisey. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth
Edition. 2000. ...of central Russia flowing about 4,023 km (2,500 mi) westward and generally north to the Kara Sea through Yenisey Bay, a long estuary.... 4) Arctic Ocean. The World Factbook. 2003 ...Sea, Beaufort Sea, Chukchi Sea, East Siberian Sea, Greenland Sea, Hudson Bay, Hudson Strait, Kara Sea, Laptev Sea, Northwest Passage, and other tributary water bodiesArea-comparati... 5) Kara. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 ...mi (230 km) long, NE European and NW Siberian Russia. It flows N from the N Urals into the Kara Sea, forming part of the traditional border between European and Asian... 6) Taymyra. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 ...It flows NE through Lake Taymyr (c.2,700 sq mi/6,990 sq km) and into the Taymyr Gulf of the Kara Sea. Taymyr Island is near its mouth.... 7) Mangyshlak Peninsula. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 ...Mangyshlak Peninsula, (mn-gishlak´) (KEY) , W Kazakhstan, extending into the NE Caspian Sea. Except for the Kara-Tau range, the peninsula is below sea level; Batyr... 8) tundra. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 ...to the north of the coniferous forest belt. The tundra area is widest in N Siberia on the Kara Sea and reaches as far south as 60° N at the neck of the Kamchatka... 9) Yenisei. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 ...then generally north, past Minusinsk, Krasnoyarsk, Yeniseisk, and Igarka to enter the Kara Sea through a c.250 mi (400 km) long estuary composed of Yenisei Bay and... 10) Borough, Stephen. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 ...of 1556-57 reached Novaya Zemlya and discovered the strait south of it leading to the Kara Sea.... |