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Laptev Sea

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Laptev Sea

Part of the Arctic Ocean off the north coast of Russia between Taimyr Peninsula and Novosibirskiye Ostrova (New Siberian Island); area c. 700,000 sq km/300,000 sq mi; average depth 578 m/1,896 ft, with a maximum depth of 3,385 m/11,105 ft. The chief port is Tiksi.

Several rivers, including the Khatanga, Lena, and Yana flow into the Laptev Sea. For most of the year the sea is frozen over. The combination of thawing ice and heavy breakers causes severe erosion to the coast of islands and mainland, to the extent that two islands recorded in 1815 have since disappeared from the map.
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These anomalies were documented in the East Siberian Sea and the Laptev Sea, covering several tens of thousands of square kilometres.
Arctic 'methane chimneys' raise fears of runaway climate change by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
This area varies from year to year, but in recent years the overall trend has been strongly downward, particularly in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas and also to a lesser extent in the Siberian and Laptev seas.
On climate change by Hodgson, P.E. / Modern Age
Millions of ice floes are carried by the Transpolar Drift, a sea-ice conveyer that runs across the arctic basin from the Laptev Sea to the Fram Strait.
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