Greenland Sea

The Greenland Sea is a body of water. It borders Greenland to the west, the Svalbard archipelago to the east, Fram Strait and the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Norwegian Sea and Iceland to the south. The Greenland Sea is often defined as part of the Arctic Ocean^[1][2][3] and sometimes as part of the Atlantic Ocean. ^[4]

The sea has an Arctic climate with regular northern winds and temperatures rarely rising above 0 °C. The West Ice forms in winter in the Greenland Sea, north of Iceland, between Greenland and Jan Mayen island. It is a major breeding ground of harp seal and hooded seal. It has been used for seal hunting for more than 200 years.

Major islands of the Greenland Sea include Svalbard archipelago, Edvards, Eila, Godfred Hansens, Île-de-France, Jan Mayen Lynns, Norske and Schnauders. Of those, only the Svalbard islands are lived on,^[5] and Jan Mayen has only seasonal military staff.

1. ↑ "Greenland Sea" (in Russian). Great Soviet Encyclopedia. Archived from the original on 2018-12-25. Retrieved 2012-06-10.
2. ↑ "Greenland Sea". Encyclopædia Britannica on-line.
3. ↑ Greenland Sea, MarBEF Data System - European Marine Gazetteer
4. ↑ Reddy, M. P. M. (2001). Descriptive Physical Oceanography. Taylor & Francis. p. 8. ISBN 978-90-5410-706-4. Retrieved 26 November 2010.
5. ↑ Islands of Greenland (Denmark) Archived 2016-04-19 at the Wayback Machine, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)