English

Proper noun

Barents

1. Barents Sea
2. The regions of Norway and Russia that border the Barents Sea.
   • 1993, Arctic Challenges: Report from the Nordic Council's Parliamentary Confernce in Reykjavik 16-17 August 1993, ISBN 9291203386, page 50:

     The establishment of the Baltic and Barents cooperation councils was therefore an expression of a Nordic willingness to play an active part and indicative that the societies of the North are willing to consider new patterns of interaction.

   • 2004, Bjørn Brunstad, Big Oil Playground, Russian Bear Preserve Or European Periphery?, ISBN 9059720393, page 39:

     Oil and gas production is potentially one of the most important growth industries in Barents Russia.

3. Willem Barents