Marginal sea of the Arctic or Atlantic Ocean, northwest of Norway
This article is about the actual sea. For the cruise ship, see MS Norwegian Sea. For the ancient name of the Kattegat, see Kattegat.
Norwegian Sea
The Vestfjorden with the mountains of the Lofoten archipelago seen from Løvøy Island in Steigen. Vågakaillen (942 m) is the taller of the two peaks in the centre of the image.
The Norwegian Sea is outlined in red (Europäisches Nordmeer in German)
Location
Northern Europe
Coordinates
69°N2°E / 69°N 2°E / 69; 2
Type
Sea
Primary inflows
Central North Atlantic,
numerous Norwegian fjords
Basin countries
Iceland, Norway, Denmark (Faroe Island) and United Kingdom (Shetland Island)
Surface area
1,383,000 km2 (534,000 sq mi)
Average depth
2,000 m (6,600 ft)
Max. depth
3,970 m (13,020 ft)
Water volume
2,000,000 km3 (1.6×1012 acre⋅ft)
References
[1][2][3]
The Norwegian Sea (Norwegian: Norskehavet; Icelandic: Noregshaf; Faroese: Norskahavið) is a marginal sea, grouped with either the Atlantic Ocean or the Arctic Ocean, northwest of Norway between the North Sea and the Greenland Sea, adjoining the Barents Sea to the northeast. In the southwest, it is separated from the Atlantic Ocean by a submarine ridge running between Iceland and the Faroe Islands. To the north, the Jan Mayen Ridge separates it from the Greenland Sea.
Unlike many other seas, most of the bottom of the Norwegian Sea is not part of a continental shelf and therefore lies at a great depth of about two kilometres on average. Rich deposits of oil and natural gas are found under the sea bottom and are being explored commercially, in the areas with sea depths of up to about one kilometre. The coastal zones are rich in fish that visit the Norwegian Sea from the North Atlantic or Barents Sea (cod) for spawning. The warm North Atlantic Current ensures relatively stable and high water temperatures, so that unlike the Arctic seas, the Norwegian Sea is ice-free throughout the year. Recent research has concluded that the large volume of water in the Norwegian Sea with its large heat absorption capacity is more important as a source of Norway's mild winters than the Gulf Stream and its extensions.[4]
^Norwegian Sea, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (in Russian)
^Norwegian Sea, Encyclopædia Britannica on-line
^ICES, 2007, p. 1
^Westerly storms warm Norway Archived 2018-09-29 at the Wayback Machine. The Research Council of Norway. Forskningsradet.no (3 September 2012). Retrieved on 2013-03-21.
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