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East Siberian Sea

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East Siberian Sea
An arm of the Arctic Ocean extending from Wrangel Island to the New Siberian Islands.


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First spotted on satellite images in 1983, the plumes are extremely thin cloud trails stretching hundreds of kilometers downwind of tiny Bennett Island, located in the East Siberian Sea.
Dunton, Schell and co-workers from Alaska, Texas and the Soviet Academy of Sciences in Leningrad have now extended the known zooplankton gradient--the range over which its carbon isotope ratio changes--from the eastern Beaufor t Sea down to the Bering Sea and eastward into the Soviet East Siberian Sea.
In 1810, a Russian industrialist namedJacob Sannikov stood on the New Siberian Islands in the East Siberian Sea, looked to the north and thought he had discovered a new continent.
 
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