{"id":111988,"date":"2026-07-08T12:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T07:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=111988"},"modified":"2026-07-08T12:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T07:04:09","slug":"norwegian-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/norwegian-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"Norwegian Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Norwegian Sea Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, UK fighter jets intercepted a Russian maritime patrol aircraft after it &#8220;repeatedly approached&#8221; a carrier strike group in the Norwegian Sea.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Norwegian Sea<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a <\/span><b>marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> bordered by <\/span><b>Norway t<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">o the northwest, <\/span><b>Greenland <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to the southeast, and <\/span><b>Icelan<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">d to the east.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Borders: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/barents-sea\/\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Barents Sea<\/b><\/a> <b>(northeast)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, separated from the <\/span><b>Atlantic Ocean<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the southwest by a <\/span><b>submarine ridge<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that spans from Iceland <\/span><b>to the Faroe Islands.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the north, the Norwegian Sea is separated from the Greenland Sea by the <\/span><b>Jan Mayen Ridge.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was formed when the <\/span><b>Eurasian Plate and the North American Plate<\/b> <b>began to separate<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> approximately <\/span><b>250 million years ago.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Currents<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>warm North Atlantic current pushes<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the warm waters through the Norwegian Sea into the Barents Sea.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The cold East Iceland Current transfers the cold water from the Norwegian Sea towards Iceland.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This thermal mixing of the warm and cold currents <\/span><b>creates excellent fishing grounds<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the Norwegian Sea.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It acts as a <\/span><b>transition zone between boreal and Arctic climatic<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> conditions and therefore its habitat shares the characteristics from both these climates.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c0jyy5w4q2no\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">BBC<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Norwegian Sea is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean, bordered by Norway to the northwest, Greenland to the southeast, and Iceland to the east. 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