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Definition of Kara sea
1. Noun. Part of the Arctic Ocean to the north of Siberia and to the east of the Barents Sea; icebound most of the year.
Definition of Kara sea
1. Proper noun. A part of the Arctic Ocean in north Russia. It is separated from the Barents Sea to the west by the Kara Strait and Novaya Zemlya, and the Laptev Sea to the east by the Severnaya Zemlya. ¹
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Kara Sea
Literary usage of Kara sea
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Through Siberia, the Land of the Future by Fridtjof Nansen (1914)
"APPENDIX THE NAVIGATION OF THE kara sea BY September 10, a week after we had left
for the ... Farther west through the kara sea they encountered no ice. ..."
2. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"... through the strait discovered by Burrough, and thence to sail eastward beyond
the mouth of the river Obi. Pet discovered the strait into the kara sea, ..."
3. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1893)
"These six vessels all crossed the kara sea, and arrived safely on the Yenisei.
... We (six vessels in all) started about 2 PM, and got into the kara sea. ..."
4. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1883)
"Mr. Grant climbed up a hill to see how the ice lay to the eastward, and reported
that there seemed to be a good deal of pack ice in the kara sea, ..."
5. The Voyage of the Vega Round Asia and Europe: With a Historical Review of by Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld (1885)
"After sailing backwards and forwards in different directions in the kara sea, he
returned through the Kara Port on the 24th August. ..."
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