KONGL. SV. VET- AKADEMIENS HANDLINGAR. BAND. 20. N:0 5. 5 



Polar circle in the south to about the 72:nd degree of latitude northwards, and to the 

 longitude of Vardö to the east. Part (The whole?) of this region is called the North 

 Sea — das Nordraeer — on Kieperts map of the arctic lands '), but as this name in- 

 cludes also part of the Atlantic and moreover might possibly be confounded with the 

 North-Sea or German ocean, I have not thonght fit to adopt it. 



The Greenland Sea is the sea between Greenland and Spitzbergen north of Iceland 

 and of the Norwegian Polar Sea, extending along the east coast of Greenland and the 

 west and north coasts of Spitzbergen. I regard Beeren Eiland as situated iu this sea. 



The Murman Sea is limited to the north by a line supposed to be drawn from 

 the mouth of Varanger-fjord to Matotshkin Shar at Novaya Zemlya ^). 



The Kära Sea is the sea between Novaya Zemlya and the Taimyr Peninsula, 

 reaching to the longitude of Cape Chelyuskin. 



The Spitzbergen Sea is the region north of the Murman and Kära Seas, east of 

 the Greenland Sea. 



The Sibirian Sea is the region east of the preceding, to the longitude of Bering 

 Strait. 



The American Arctic Sea north of North-America. 



I call Bafjin Bay the region between America and Greenland. I hold it to be 

 bounded to the south by the latitude of Cape Farewell. 



') KiEPEET, Uebersiclits-Karte der Nordpolar-Länder. Neue berichtigte Ausgabe. Berlin 1874. 

 ^) Cp. Nordenskiöld, Karta öfver Provens färd till Jenisej och äter 1875. 

 •') Cp. Nordenskiöld, Vega-Exp. 1. p. 150. 



