Sea of Barents: A trip between the ice and the cold

Always you imagined a trip between the ice and the cold? You seek a trip out of the normal thing almost in the arctic one? The Sea of Barents expects you.


The Sea of Barents is found to the north of Norway and Russia to the Islands Svalbard and Jan Mayen, carries that name in homage to Willem Barents, navigator of Holland (to see hotels in Holland), dead in 1597.

This sea is very important in the north of Norway, therefore gives a large quantity of natural resources to the northern country. Thanks to the sea, they can be as exporting second of gas of the European continent, and between the three more exporters of the petroleum and gas.



Besides, the gigantic crabs can be appreciated, calls real crab of Kamchatka, that are really surprising by their size and volume. But these animals eat everything that they have to its step, devouring the coasts of the Sea of Barents that already began to have comparisons that is a desert.

You knew that the limit of the Sea of Barents they are the group of islands Norways of Svalbard and Jan Mayen? Svalbard is a small archipelago of a little more than thousand 600 inhabitants for a surface of 61 thousand square kilometers. Its larger island is Spitsbergen, that during the summer, the sun been present the 24 hours by its geographical location.



Jan Mayen is an island that is also the limits of the Sea of Barents, has only 373 square kilometers. This island does not have fixed inhabitants, only 18 inhabitants; besides, does not have own natural resources, the unique thing that can be done in the island is to give services to the radios and weather centers of Norway, that of that just they are occupied their not more than 20 inhabitants in the Island. That yes, if it goes one of them, has to come another to replace, always they should have 18.

The curious thing of the theme, is that these two practically frozen islands by the cold and that in winter the sun goes when all they have just had lunch, has its code of own Internet by pressures of Norway, which is. sj, but obviously is utilized for nobody. The inhabitants of these islands do not create web pages, and all the ones that have reference to this place are created in Norway continental or other countries.

You would like to sleep with the sun to your side? Or perhaps to discover how can live itself when goes the so fast sun. Then, the Sea of Barents expects you.