White Sea, the Glossary

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1. 93 relations: Arkhangelsk, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Atlantic cod, Atlantic salmon, Baltic Sea, Baltic Shield, Barents Sea, Belomorsk, Beluga whale, Black Sea, Bowhead whale, Cape Svyatoy Nos, Murmansk Oblast, Caspian Sea, Color term, Dvina Bay, East Indies, Eastern Europe, Edward Bonaventure, Edward VI, European smelt, Fur trade, Great Soviet Encyclopedia, Harbour porpoise, Harp seal, Herring, Hugh Willoughby, Humpback whale, Icebreaker, Inlet, Internal waters, International Hydrographic Organization, Invertebrate, Ivan III of Russia, Ivan the Terrible, Kandalaksha, Kandalaksha Gulf, Kanin Peninsula, Karelia, Karelian language, Kem, Russia, Kholmogory, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Kiy Island, Kola Peninsula, Kuloy (White Sea), Lake Onega, Mary I of England, Mezen (river), Mezen Bay, Mezen, Mezensky District, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Murmansk, ... Expand index (43 more) »

2. Bodies of water of the Barents Sea
3. European seas
4. Seas of Russia
5. Seas of the Arctic Ocean

Arkhangelsk

Arkhangelsk (Арха́нгельск), also known as Archangel and Archangelsk, is a city and the administrative center of Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia.

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Arkhangelsk Oblast

Arkhangelsk Oblast (p) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast).

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Atlantic cod

The Atlantic cod (cod; Gadus morhua) is a fish of the family Gadidae, widely consumed by humans.

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Atlantic salmon

The Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Salmonidae.

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Baltic Sea

The Baltic Sea is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that is enclosed by Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden, and the North and Central European Plain. White Sea and Baltic Sea are European seas and seas of Russia.

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Baltic Shield

The Baltic Shield (or Fennoscandian Shield) is a segment of the Earth's crust belonging to the East European Craton, representing a large part of Fennoscandia, northwestern Russia and the northern Baltic Sea.

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Barents Sea

The Barents Sea (also; Barentshavet,; 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. White Sea and Barents Sea are European seas and seas of Russia.

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Belomorsk

Belomorsk (Беломо́рск; Šuomua; Belomorsk, Sorokka) is a town and the administrative center of Belomorsky District in the Republic of Karelia, Russia, located on the Onega Bay on the shore of the White Sea.

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Beluga whale

The beluga whale (Delphinapterus leucas) is an Arctic and sub-Arctic cetacean.

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Black Sea

The Black Sea is a marginal mediterranean sea lying between Europe and Asia, east of the Balkans, south of the East European Plain, west of the Caucasus, and north of Anatolia. White Sea and Black Sea are European seas and seas of Russia.

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Bowhead whale

The bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) is a species of baleen whale belonging to the family Balaenidae and is the only living representative of the genus Balaena.

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Cape Svyatoy Nos, Murmansk Oblast

Cape Svyatoy Nos (Святой Нос, 'Holy Cape') is a headland in the Kola Peninsula, located between the Barents Sea and the White Sea.

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Caspian Sea

The Caspian Sea is the world's largest inland body of water, often described as the world's largest lake and sometimes referred to as a full-fledged sea.

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Color term

A color term (or color name) is a word or phrase that refers to a specific color.

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Dvina Bay

The Dvina Bay (Двинская Губа) is located in Arkhangelsk Oblast in Northwestern Russia.

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East Indies

The East Indies (or simply the Indies) is a term used in historical narratives of the Age of Discovery.

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Eastern Europe

Eastern Europe is a subregion of the European continent.

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Edward Bonaventure

Edward Bonaventure was an English ship under the command of Richard Chancellor that was forced to seek shelter in 1553 on the north coast of Russia near Nyonoksa due to weather conditions, leading to its crew coming into contact with the court of Ivan the Terrible, the forming of the Muscovy Company, and diplomatic contacts between Elizabeth I of England and Ivan of Russia.

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Edward VI

Edward VI (12 October 1537 – 6 July 1553) was King of England and Ireland from 28 January 1547 until his death in 1553.

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European smelt

The smelt or European smelt (Osmerus eperlanus) is a species of fish in the family Osmeridae.

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Fur trade

The fur trade is a worldwide industry dealing in the acquisition and sale of animal fur.

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Great Soviet Encyclopedia

The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (GSE;, BSE) is the largest Soviet Russian-language encyclopedia, published in the Soviet Union from 1926 to 1990.

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Harbour porpoise

The harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) is one of eight extant species of porpoise.

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Harp seal

The harp seal (Pagophilus groenlandicus), also known as Saddleback Seal or Greenland Seal, is a species of earless seal, or true seal, native to the northernmost Atlantic Ocean and Arctic Ocean.

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Herring

Herring are forage fish, mostly belonging to the family of Clupeidae.

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Hugh Willoughby

Sir Hugh Willoughby (fl. 1544; died 1554) was an English soldier and an early Arctic voyager.

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Humpback whale

The humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) is a species of baleen whale.

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Icebreaker

An icebreaker is a special-purpose ship or boat designed to move and navigate through ice-covered waters, and provide safe waterways for other boats and ships.

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Inlet

An inlet is a (usually long and narrow) indentation of a shoreline, such as a small arm, cove, bay, sound, fjord, lagoon or marsh, that leads to an enclosed larger body of water such as a lake, estuary, gulf or marginal sea.

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Internal waters

According to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, a nation's internal waters include waters on the side of the baseline of a nation's territorial waters that is facing toward the land, except in archipelagic states.

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International Hydrographic Organization

The International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) (French: Organisation hydrographique internationale) is an intergovernmental organisation representing hydrography.

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Invertebrate

Invertebrates is an umbrella term describing animals that neither develop nor retain a vertebral column (commonly known as a spine or backbone), which evolved from the notochord.

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Ivan III of Russia

Ivan III Vasilyevich (Иван III Васильевич; 22 January 1440 – 27 October 1505), also known as Ivan the Great, was Grand Prince of Moscow and all Russia from 1462 until his death in 1505.

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Ivan the Terrible

Ivan IV Vasilyevich (Иван IV Васильевич; 25 August 1530 –), commonly known as Ivan the Terrible, was Grand Prince of Moscow and all Russia from 1533 to 1547, and the first Tsar and Grand Prince of all Russia from 1547 until his death in 1584.

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Kandalaksha

Kandalaksha (Кандала́кша; Kantalahti, also Kandalax or Candalax in the old maps; Kannanlakši; Gáddeluokta; Käddluhtt) is a town in Kandalakshsky District of Murmansk Oblast, Russia, located at the head of Kandalaksha Gulf on the White Sea, north of the Arctic Circle.

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Kandalaksha Gulf

The Kandalaksha Gulf (Käddluhtt), Kantalahti) is located in the Republic of Karelia, and Murmansk Oblast in northwestern Russia. Forming the north-western corner of the White Sea, it is one of four large bays and gulfs of this sea, the others being the Onega Bay (south-west), the Dvina Bay (south), and the Mezen Bay (south east).

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Kanin Peninsula

The Kanin Peninsula is a large peninsula in Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia.

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Karelia

Karelia (Karelian and Karjala; Kareliya, historically Коре́ла, Korela; Karelen) is an area in Northern Europe of historical significance for Russia (including the Soviet era), Finland, and Sweden.

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Karelian language

Karelian (karjala, karjalan kieli|label.

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Kem, Russia

Kem (Кемь; Finnish and Kemi) is a historic town and the administrative center of Kemsky District of the Republic of Karelia, Russia, located on the shores of the White Sea where the Kem River enters it, on the railroad leading from Petrozavodsk to Murmansk.

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Kholmogory, Arkhangelsk Oblast

Kholmogory (Холмого́ры) is a historic rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Kholmogorsky District of Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia.

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Kiy Island

Kiy Island (Russian: Кий-остров) is an island in the Onega Bay of the White Sea, 8 km off-shore and 15 km from the town of Onega.

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Kola Peninsula

The Kola Peninsula (Kólʹskij poluóstrov, Kolsky poluostrov.; Куэлнэгк нёа̄ррк) is a peninsula located mostly in northwest Russia and partly in Finland and Norway.

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Kuloy (White Sea)

The Kuloy (Кулой) is a river in Pinezhsky and Mezensky Districts of Arkhangelsk Oblast in Russia.

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Lake Onega

Lake Onega (also known as Onego; Onezhskoe ozero,; Ääninen, Äänisjärvi; Livvi: Oniegujärvi; Änine, Änižjärv) is a lake in northwestern Russia, on the territory of the Republic of Karelia, Leningrad Oblast and Vologda Oblast.

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Mary I of England

Mary I (18 February 1516 – 17 November 1558), also known as Mary Tudor, and as "Bloody Mary" by her Protestant opponents, was Queen of England and Ireland from July 1553 and Queen of Spain and the Habsburg dominions as the wife of King Philip II from January 1556 until her death in 1558.

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Mezen (river)

The Mezen (Мезень; Komi: Мозын, Mozyn) is a river in Udorsky District of the Komi Republic and in Leshukonsky and Mezensky Districts of Arkhangelsk Oblast in Russia.

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Mezen Bay

The Mezen Bay (Мезенская губа) is located in Arkhangelsk Oblast and Nenets Autonomous Okrug in Northwestern Russia.

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Mezen, Mezensky District, Arkhangelsk Oblast

Mezen (Мезе́нь) is a town and the administrative center of Mezensky District in Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia, located on the right bank of the Mezen River close to the point where it flows into the White Sea.

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Murmansk

Murmansk (Мурманск; Мурман ланнҍ; Muurman and Murmánska) is a port city and the administrative center of Murmansk Oblast in the far northwest part of Russia.

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Murmansk Oblast

Murmansk Oblast is a federal subject (an oblast) of Russia, located in the northwestern part of the country, with a total land area of.

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Muscovy Company

The Muscovy Company (also called the Russia Company or the Muscovy Trading Company; Moskovskaya kompaniya) was an English trading company chartered in 1555. It was the first major chartered joint-stock company, the precursor of the type of business that would soon flourish in England and finance its exploration of the world.

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Niva (river)

The Niva is a river in the Murmansk Oblast in Russia.

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Northern bottlenose whale

The northern bottlenose whale (Hyperoodon ampullatus) is a species of beaked whale in the ziphiid family, being one of two members of the genus Hyperoodon.

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Northern Dvina

The Northern Dvina (Се́верная Двина́,; Výnva) is a river in northern Russia flowing through Vologda Oblast and Arkhangelsk Oblast into the Dvina Bay of the White Sea. Along with the Pechora River to the east, it drains most of Northwest Russia into the Arctic Ocean. It should not be confused with the Western Dvina, with which it is not connected.

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Onega (river)

The Onega (Оне́га; Äänisjoki) is a river in Kargopolsky, Plesetsky, and Onezhsky Districts of Arkhangelsk Oblast in Russia.

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Onega Bay

The Onega Bay (Онежская губа, Онежский залив) is located in the Republic of Karelia and Arkhangelsk Oblast in Northwestern Russia, west of the city of Arkhangelsk.

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Onega, Russia

Onega (Оне́га) is a town in the northwest of Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia, situated at the mouth of the Onega River, a few kilometers from the shore of the Onega Bay of the White Sea.

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Orca

The orca (Orcinus orca), or killer whale, is a toothed whale that is the largest member of the oceanic dolphin family.

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Polar climate

The polar climate regions are characterized by a lack of warm summers but with varying winters.

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Pomors

Pomors or Pomory (lit) are an ethnographic group thought to be descended from Russian settlers (primarily from Veliky Novgorod) according to traditional Russian historiography, living on the White Sea coasts and the territory whose southern border lies on a watershed which separates the White Sea river basin from the basins of rivers that flow south.

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Ponoy

The Ponoy (Поно́й) is a river on the Kola Peninsula in Russia.

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Port of Arkhangelsk

Port of Arkhangelsk (Архангельский морской торговый порт) is a major seaport at Arkhangelsk, located at the mouth of the Northern Dvina River, 50 km from the Dvina Bay of the White Sea.

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Red Sea

The Red Sea is a sea inlet of the Indian Ocean, lying between Africa and Asia.

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Republic of Karelia

The Republic of Karelia, Karjala or Karelia (Каре́лия, Ка́рьяла; Karjala) is a republic of Russia situated in the northwest of the country.

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Richard Chancellor

Richard Chancellor (–) was an English explorer and navigator; the first to penetrate to the White Sea and establish relations with the Tsardom of Russia.

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Ringed seal

The ringed seal (Pusa hispida) is an earless seal inhabiting the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions.

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Rorqual

Rorquals are the largest group of baleen whales, comprising the family Balaenopteridae, which contains nine extant species in two genera.

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Russia

Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.

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Saffron cod

The saffron cod (Eleginus gracilis) is a commercially harvested fish closely related to true cods (genus Gadus).

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Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the second-largest city in Russia after Moscow.

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Sea

A sea is a large body of salty water.

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Sea of Azov

The Sea of Azov is an inland shelf sea in Eastern Europe connected to the Black Sea by the narrow (about) Strait of Kerch, and sometimes regarded as a northern extension of the Black Sea. White Sea and sea of Azov are European seas and seas of Russia.

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Silicate

A silicate is any member of a family of polyatomic anions consisting of silicon and oxygen, usually with the general formula, where.

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Silicon

Silicon is a chemical element; it has symbol Si and atomic number 14.

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Silt

Silt is granular material of a size between sand and clay and composed mostly of broken grains of quartz.

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Solovetsky Islands

The Solovetsky Islands (p), or Solovki (p), are an archipelago located in the Onega Bay of the White Sea, Russia.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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Subarctic climate

The subarctic climate (also called subpolar climate, or boreal climate) is a continental climate with long, cold (often very cold) winters, and short, warm to cool summers.

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Territorial waters

Territorial waters are informally an area of water where a sovereign state has jurisdiction, including internal waters, the territorial sea, the contiguous zone, the exclusive economic zone, and potentially the extended continental shelf (these components are sometimes collectively called the maritime zones).

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Tide

Tides are the rise and fall of sea levels caused by the combined effects of the gravitational forces exerted by the Moon (and to a much lesser extent, the Sun) and are also caused by the Earth and Moon orbiting one another.

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Tsar

Tsar (also spelled czar, tzar, or csar; tsar; tsar'; car) is a title historically used by Slavic monarchs.

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Umba (White Sea)

The Umba (Умба) is a river on the Kola Peninsula, Murmansk Oblast, Russia.

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Umba, Russia

Umba (Умба) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) in Tersky District of Murmansk Oblast, Russia, located on the Kola Peninsula at the point where the Umba River flows into the Kandalaksha Gulf.

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Varzuga (river)

The Varzuga is a river in the south of the Kola Peninsula in Murmansk Oblast, Russia.

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Veliky Novgorod

Veliky Novgorod (lit), also known simply as Novgorod (Новгород), is the largest city and administrative centre of Novgorod Oblast, Russia.

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Volga

The Volga (p) is the longest river in Europe. Situated in Russia, it flows through Central Russia to Southern Russia and into the Caspian Sea. The Volga has a length of, and a catchment area of., Russian State Water Registry It is also Europe's largest river in terms of average discharge at delta – between and – and of drainage basin.

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Volga–Baltic Waterway

The Volga–Baltic Waterway (translit), formerly known as the Mariinsk Canal System (translit), is a series of canals and rivers in Russia which link the Volga with the Baltic Sea via the Neva.

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Vyg

The Vyg (Выг; Uikujoki) is a river in the Republic of Karelia, Russia.

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Whale

Whales are a widely distributed and diverse group of fully aquatic placental marine mammals.

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White Sea Throat

White Sea Throat (Горло Белого моря) is a strait in northwestern Russia.

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White Sea–Baltic Canal

The White Sea–Baltic Canal (translit), often abbreviated to White Sea Canal (Belomorkanal) is a man-made ship canal in Russia opened on 2 August 1933.

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Yellow Sea

The Yellow Sea, also known as North Sea, is a marginal sea of the Western Pacific Ocean located between mainland China and the Korean Peninsula, and can be considered the northwestern part of the East China Sea.

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See also

Bodies of water of the Barents Sea

• Kara Strait
• Matochkin Strait
• Pechora Sea
• White Sea
• Yugorsky Strait

European seas

• Adriatic Sea
• Aegean Sea
• Alboran Sea
• Archipelago Sea
• Balearic Sea
• Baltic Sea
• Barents Sea
• Bay of Biscay
• Black Sea
• Cantabrian Sea
• Celtic Sea
• Denmark Strait
• Eemian Sea
• English Channel
• Firth of Lorn
• Greenland Sea
• Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland
• Ionian Sea
• Irish Sea
• Irminger Sea
• Kara Sea
• Kven Sea
• Levantine Sea
• Ligurian Sea
• Malin Sea
• Mediterranean Sea
• North Sea
• Norwegian Sea
• Pechora Sea
• Queen Victoria Sea
• Sea of Azov
• Sea of Crete
• Sea of Marmara
• Sea of the Hebrides
• Seas west of Scotland
• Seas with color names
• The Minch
• Tyrrhenian Sea
• Wadden Sea
• Wandel Sea
• West Ice
• White Sea

Seas of Russia

• Baltic Sea
• Barents Sea
• Bering Sea
• Black Sea
• Chukchi Sea
• East Siberian Sea
• Kara Sea
• Laptev Sea
• Pechora Sea
• Queen Victoria Sea
• Sea of Azov
• Sea of Japan
• Sea of Okhotsk
• Seas with color names
• Shantar Sea
• White Sea

Seas of the Arctic Ocean

• Beaufort Sea
• Chukchi Sea
• Greenland Sea
• Hudson Bay
• Iceland Sea
• Kara Sea
• Lincoln Sea
• Nordic Seas
• Open Polar Sea
• Pechora Sea
• Seas with color names
• Wandel Sea
• White Sea

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Sea

Also known as Album Mare, Mare Album, The White Sea.

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