The '''Barents Sea''' forms part of the [[Arctic Ocean]]. It lies to the north of northern [[Norway]] and the [[Kola Peninsula]] of north-west [[Russia]], and is bounded to the east by [[Novaya Zemlya]] and to the north (approximately) by the [[Franz-Joseph Land]] and [[Svalbard]] [[archipelago]]s. The sea was renamed after the [[Dutch]] explorer [[Willem Barents]] (c.1550-1597) in 1853; it had previously been known as the Murmean Sea. | The '''Barents Sea''' forms part of the [[Arctic Ocean]]. It lies to the north of northern [[Norway]] and the [[Kola Peninsula]] of north-west [[Russia]], and is bounded to the east by [[Novaya Zemlya]] and to the north (approximately) by the [[Franz-Joseph Land]] and [[Svalbard]] [[archipelago]]s. The sea was renamed after the [[Dutch]] explorer [[Willem Barents]] (c.1550-1597) in 1853; it had previously been known as the Murmean Sea. |