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of Novaya Zemlya (typical example is Wollebæk's Station II, May 31, 
1900). 
3) Cold bottom-water, probably with moderately high salinities, 
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Fig. 1. Bathymetrical Map of the Barents Sea. Scale 1 : 12,000,000. 
Isobaths for every 200 metres, and dotted lines for the isobaths of roo and 300 metres. 
formed over the shallow banks in northern Barents Sea (there are no 
accurate observationes of this water). 
4) Cold bottom-wather, with about the same salinity as the Atlantic 
water in the western Barents Sea (about or above 349 %0), filling the 
