{"id":29718,"date":"2025-01-30T09:49:41","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T04:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=29718"},"modified":"2025-04-09T10:19:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T04:49:14","slug":"kara-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/kara-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Facts about Kara Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Kara Sea Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Amid a rapid expansion of Russian activity in the Arctic region, a nuclear-powered icebreaker named \u201c50 Let Pobedy\u201d (also known as 50 Years of Victory) suffered damage after colliding with a cargo vessel in the Kara Sea.<\/p>\n<h2>About Kara Sea<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean<\/strong> that is located to the <strong>north of Siberia, Russia.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It covers an area of 880,000 sq.km.<\/li>\n<li>The sea has been named after the <strong>Kara River.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is situated <strong>between the Franz Josef Land in the northwest<\/strong>, the <strong>Novaya Zemlya islands in the west, <\/strong>and the <strong>Severnaya Zemlya archipelago in the east.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Kara Strait and the Novaya Zemlya archipelago separate <\/strong>the<strong> Kara Sea from the Barents Sea<\/strong> in the west.<\/li>\n<li>In the east, the <strong>Severnaya Zemlya archipelago separates the Kara Sea from the Laptev Sea.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>In the north, the Kara Sea is also connected with the Arctic Basin.<\/li>\n<li>It is regarded as <strong>one of the world\u2019s coldest seas<\/strong> and remains covered with ice from September to May.<\/li>\n<li>Different rivers, including the <strong>Kara, Ob, Pyasina, and Yenisei rivers,<\/strong> drain into the Kara Sea.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The significant <strong>islands <\/strong>that are found here i<strong>nclude Bely, Dikson, Kamennyye, Oleni, and Taymyr Islands.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Nordenskiold Archipelago<\/strong>, which is composed of more than 90 islands and five large island subgroups, is the largest island group in the Kara Sea.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Kara Sea FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. What countries border the Kara Sea?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. The Kara Sea is bordered by Russia to the south. It is part of the Arctic Ocean and lies off the northern coast of Siberia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. What is the island between Barents Sea and Kara Sea?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>: Curving between the shallow Kara Sea (east) and the deeper Barents Sea (west) is the Novaya Zemlya archipelago.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. Where is the Barents Sea?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. The Barents Sea is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean, located off the northern coasts of Norway and Russia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurasiantimes.com\/russian-nuclear-powered-vessel-meets-accident-in-the-kara-sea-icebreakers-seaworthiness-not-lost\/#google_vignette\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ET<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kara Sea is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean that is located to the north of Siberia, Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":29719,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29718","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}