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Wandel Sea

The Wandel Sea is a body of water in the Greenland Sea, stretching from northeast of to . It is obstructed by ice most of the year. This sea is named after Danish polar explorer and hydrographer, Vice Admiral Carl Frederick Wandel, who in the years 1895–96 explored the coastal waters of Greenland as part of the Danish Ingolf Expedition.
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  • Type: Sea
  • Description: body of water in the Arctic Ocean from northeast of Greenland to Svalbard
  • Also known as: “McKinley Sea”, “McKinleyhavet”, “Wandels Hav”, and “Wandels Sea”

Wandel Sea

Latitude
82.15° or 82° 9′ north
Longitude
-17.45° or 17° 27′ west
Open location code
CCJ45H22+22
Open­Street­Map ID
node 5837815586
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­sea
Geo­Names ID
2760161
Wiki­data ID
Q259929
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Western Panjabi—“Wandel Sea” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Wandelsee”
  • Arabic: “بحر واندل”
  • Armenian: “Վանդելի ծով”
  • Asturian: “Mar de Wandel”
  • Azerbaijani: “Vandel dənizi”
  • Basque: “Wandel itsasoa”
  • Belarusian: “Мора Вандэля”
  • Bosnian: “Vendelsovo more”
  • Bosnian: “Wandel more”
  • Breton: “Mor Wandel”
  • Catalan: “Mar de Wandel”
  • Cebuano: “Wandel Hav”
  • Chechen: “Ванделан хӀорд”
  • Chinese: “Wandel Hái”
  • Chinese: “旺德爾海”
  • Chuvash: “Вандель тинĕсĕ”
  • Czech: “McKinleyovo moře”
  • Czech: “Wandelovo moře”
  • Danish: “Wandelhavet”
  • Dutch: “Wandel Zee”
  • Dutch: “Wandelzee”
  • Esperanto: “maro de Wandel”
  • Esperanto: “Maro de Wandel”
  • French: “mer de Wandel”
  • French: “Mer de Wandel”
  • German: “Wandelsee”
  • Hebrew: “ים וואנדל”
  • Hebrew: “ים ונדל”
  • Hebrew: “ים מקינלי”
  • Icelandic: “Wandel-haf”
  • Iloko: “Baybay McKinley”
  • Iloko: “Baybay Wandel”
  • Indonesian: “Laut Wandel”
  • Italian: “Mare di Wandel”
  • Japanese: “ワンデル海”
  • Latvian: “Vandela jūra”
  • Lithuanian: “Vandelio jūra”
  • Macedonian: “Ванделово Море”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Wandel Hái”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Wandelhavet”
  • Panjabi: “ਵੈਂਡਲ ਸਮੁੰਦਰ”
  • Panjabi: “ਵੈਂਡਲ ਸਾਗਰ”
  • Persian: “دریای واندل”
  • Polish: “Morze Wandela”
  • Portuguese: “Mar de Wandel”
  • Russian: “Море Ванделя”
  • Serbian: “Ванделсово море”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Wandelovo more”
  • South Azerbaijani: “واندل دنیزی”
  • Spanish: “Mar de Wandel”
  • Swahili: “Bahari ya Wandel”
  • Swedish: “Wandels hav”
  • Turkish: “Wandel Denizi”
  • Ukrainian: “Море Ванделя”
  • Urdu: “بحیرہ واندل”
  • Venetian: “Mar de Wandel”
  • Vietnamese: “Biển Wandel”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Dagat Wandel”
  • Western Panjabi: “واندل سمندر”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Wandel Sea”. Photo: Slaunger, CC BY-SA 3.0.