Northern Sea Route
Shipping route running along the Russian Arctic coast
Northern Sea Route
The Northern Sea Route (NSR; Russian: Се́верный морско́й путь, romanized: Severnyy morskoy put, shortened to Севморпуть, Sevmorput) is a shipping route about 5,600 kilometres (3,500 mi) long. The Northern Sea Route is the shortest shipping route between the western part of Eurasia and the Asia-Pacific region. For China, the NSR can halve the time to Europe compared to via Suez or the Cape of Good Hope routes. Administratively, the Northern Sea Route begins at the boundary between the Barents and Kara Seas (the Kara Strait) and ends in the Bering Strait (Cape Dezhnev). The NSR straddles the seas of the Arctic Ocean (Kara, Laptev, East Siberian and Chukchi Seas). The entire route lies in Arctic waters and within Russia's exclusive economic zone (EEZ), and is included in what has been called the Northeast Passage, (which is now commercially navigable) analogous to Canada's Northwest Passage (which is still not commercially navigable). The Northern Sea Route itself does not include the Barents...
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