Barents Shelf
Barents may refer to: *René Barents (born 1951), Dutch judge and legal scholar *Willem Barents (c. 1550–1597), Dutch navigator and explorer *Barents AirLink, a Swedish airline *Barents Island (), an island in the Svalbard archipelago, part of Norway *Barents Sea, a part of the Arctic Ocean north of Norway and Russia **Barents Region, the land along the coast of the Barents Sea **Barents Basin, a sedimentary basin in the Barents Sea * Barents Euro-Arctic Council, the official body for inter-governmental co-operation in the Barents Region See also *Barentsburg, second largest settlement in the Svalbard archipelago *Barentsjøkulen Barentsjøkulen is a glacier on Barentsøya, Svalbard. The glacier covers an area of about . It is named after the Barents Island, which again is named after Dutch explorer Willem Barentsz. Barents Island is on the Barents Sea. The glacier has t ...

René Barents
René Barents (born 31 December 1951) is a Dutch European Union law scholar. He has been a judge at the General Court (European Union), General Court since 19 September 2016. He previously served as a judge on the European Union Civil Service Tribunal from 2011 until 2016 Barents has worked for the European Union justice system since the early 1980s, and he has been a professor of European Union law at Maastricht University since 1989. Career Barents was born on 31 December 1951 in Rotterdam. In Rotterdam he studied law with a focus on economics at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, Erasmus University where he graduated in 1973. Afterwards Barents became a researcher and lecturer in European and economic law at the Europe Institute of Utrecht University. From 1979 to 1981 he held a similar lecturer position at Leiden University. In 1981 he also obtained his Master of Laws degree from Utrecht University. In the same year Barents started working for the Court of Justice of the Europe ...
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Willem Barents
Willem Barentsz (; – 20 June 1597), anglicized as William Barents or Barentz, was a Dutch navigator, cartographer, and Arctic explorer. Barentsz went on three expeditions to the far north in search for a Northeast passage. He reached as far as Novaya Zemlya and the Kara Sea in his first two voyages, but was turned back on both occasions by ice. During a third expedition, the crew discovered Spitsbergen and Bear Island, but subsequently became stranded on Novaya Zemlya for almost a year. Barentsz died on the return voyage in 1597. The Barents Sea, among many other places, is named after him. Life and career Willem Barentsz was born around 1550 in the village Formerum on the island Terschelling in the Seventeen Provinces, present-day Netherlands. ''Barentsz'' was not his surname but rather his patronymic name, short for ''Barentszoon'' " Barent's son". A cartographer by trade, Barentsz sailed to Spain and the Mediterranean to complete an atlas of the Mediterranean region, w ...
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Barents AirLink
Barents AirLink was a Swedish based airline. It was established as Nordkalottflyg in 1974 and operated scheduled domestic and international services. The name was changed to Barents AirLink in 2006. It was based at Luleå Airport. Barents Air Link (2006-2016) merged into Babcock Scandinavian AirAmbulance. Services Barents AirLink does not operate any scheduled services and closed down the company in 2012. It has previously operated the following scheduled services, all from Luleå: * Pajala, Sweden (until October 2011). * Tromsø, Norway (discontinued February 2008). * Murmansk, Russia (discontinued 2007). See also * Airlines * Transport in Sweden Fleet The Barents AirLink fleet consisted of the following aircraft in May 2008: * BAe Jetstream 32 * Beechcraft Super King Air 200 The Beechcraft Super King Air family is part of a line of twin-turboprop aircraft produced by Beechcraft. The Model 200 and Model 300 series were originally marketed as the "Super King Air" fa ...
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Barents Island
Barents may refer to: *René Barents (born 1951), Dutch judge and legal scholar *Willem Barents (c. 1550–1597), Dutch navigator and explorer *Barents AirLink, a Swedish airline *Barents Island (), an island in the Svalbard archipelago, part of Norway *Barents Sea, a part of the Arctic Ocean north of Norway and Russia **Barents Region, the land along the coast of the Barents Sea **Barents Basin, a sedimentary basin in the Barents Sea *Barents Euro-Arctic Council, the official body for inter-governmental co-operation in the Barents Region See also *Barentsburg, second largest settlement in the Svalbard archipelago *Barentsjøkulen Barentsjøkulen is a glacier on Barentsøya, Svalbard. The glacier covers an area of about . It is named after the Barents Island, which again is named after Dutch explorer Willem Barentsz. Barents Island is on the Barents Sea. The glacier has t ...

Barents Sea
The Barents Sea ( , also ; no, Barentshavet, ; russian: Баренцево море, Barentsevo More) is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean, located off the northern coasts of Norway and Russia and divided between Norwegian and Russian territorial waters.World Wildlife Fund, 2008. It was known among Russians in the Middle Ages as the Murman Sea ("Norse Sea"); the current name of the sea is after the historical Netherlands, Dutch navigator Willem Barentsz. The Barents Sea is a rather shallow Continental shelf, shelf sea, with an average depth of , and it is an important site for both fishing and hydrocarbon exploration.O. G. Austvik, 2006. It is bordered by the Kola Peninsula to the south, the shelf edge towards the Norwegian Sea to the west, and the archipelagos of Svalbard to the northwest, Franz Josef Land to the northeast and Novaya Zemlya to the east. The islands of Novaya Zemlya, an extension of the northern end of the Ural Mountains, separate the Barents Sea from the Kar ...
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Barents Region
The Barents Region is a name given, by advocates of establishing international cooperation after the fall of the Soviet Union, to the land along the coast of the Barents Sea, from Nordland in Norway to the Kola Peninsula in Russia and beyond all the way to the Ural Mountains and Novaya Zemlya, and south to the Gulf of Bothnia of the Baltic Sea and the great lakes Ladoga and Onega. Among the projects is the Barents Road from Bodø in Norway through Haparanda in Sweden and Finland to Murmansk in Russia. One concrete sign of the increased communication within the region is the establishment in 2006 of an IKEA store in Haparanda (Sweden), targeting customers 500 km away in Murmansk and northern Norway. The region has six million inhabitants on 1.75 million km2; three quarters of both belong to Russia. The regional cooperation was formally opened on January 11, 1993, initiated by Norway under foreign minister Thorvald Stoltenberg. It includes the administrative reg ...
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Barents Basin
The Barents Basin or East Barents Basin is a sedimentary basin underlying the eastern half of the Barents Sea. Lying off Russia on the continental shelf between the Kola Peninsula and Novaya Zemlya, it produces oil and gas.Funk, McKenzie (May 2009) "Arctic Landgrab" ''National Geographic'' 215(5): pp. 104–121 The Barents Basin is bordered by land and the Timan-Pechora Basin to the south, the Murmansk Rise and Murmansk Plateau to the west, the Admiralty High and the island of Novaya Zemlya to the east, and rise of Franz Josef Land to the north. The Barents Basin is subdivided into the South Barents Basin (south of the Ludlov Saddle), the North Barents Basin, and the North Novaya Zemlya Basin. The latter two are separated by a major NW–SE fault.Doré, A. G. (1995) "Barents Sea Geology, Petroleum Resources and Commercial Potential" ''Arctic'' 48(3): pp. 207–221 Geology Beginning in the late Palaeozoic and continuing through to the early Cretaceou ...
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Barents Euro-Arctic Council
The Barents Euro-Arctic Council (BEAC) is the official body for inter-governmental co-operation in the Barents Region. It seeks solutions wherever and whenever the countries can achieve more together than by working on their own. Cooperation in the Barents Euro-Arctic Region was launched in 1993 on two levels: intergovernmental Barents Euro-Arctic Council (BEAC) and interregional Barents Regional Council (BRC). The overall objective of Barents cooperation has been sustainable development. In 2008, the International Barents Secretariat was established in Kirkenes. The secretariat supports the multilateral activities within the Barents Euro-Arctic Council and Barents Regional Council and secures the coherence and efficiency of the cooperation. The IBS maintains the archives of the Barents Euro-Arctic council and the Barents Regional Council and works as an information database. Where appropriate, there is also coordination with the relevant activities of the Nordic Council of Ministe ...
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Barentsburg
Barentsburg (russian: Баренцбург) is the second-largest settlement in Svalbard, Norway, with about 455 inhabitants (). A coal mining town, the settlement is almost entirely made up of ethnic Russians and Ukrainians. History Rijpsburg, a now abandoned Dutch settlement on Spitsbergen on Cape Boheman (Bohemanflya), at the north site of Nordfjorden in the Isfjord, stood roughly diagonally opposite Longyearbyen. The Rotterdam-based Van der Eb and Dresselhuys Scheepvaartmaatschappij (ship-building company) built it in 1920, using prefabricated huts, for the mining of coal. Twelve Dutch staff and 52 German miners started mining coal here that year. The Dutch Spitsbergen Company, founded in 1920, bought a mine in Green Harbour from the Russians and mined coal from 1921 to 1926. The company renamed its settlement Barentsburg after the Dutch explorer Willem Barentsz. In 1932 the company sold the mine, including its settlement Barentsburg, to the Russian trust Arktikugol. Th ...
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