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| | A Global Representative System of Marine Protected Areas - Volume 1, Marine Region 2, Arctic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | Many arctic coasts are precipitous and deeply cut by fjords, as are those of much of the Arctic archipelago, Greenland, Iceland, Spitzbergen, Norway, the Murman coast, Novya Zemlya and eastern Siberia. |
 | | Recent work from Spitsbergen (Kendall and Asohan 1993) suggests that the benthic soft-bottom communities in Spitsbergen fjord (78°N) are quite similar to the diversity of physically quite similar communities in the North Sea (55°N) and Java (7°S). |
 | | Generally the marine flora and fauna along the Norwegian coast is reduced along a gradient from euhaline coastal water to the brackish waters in estuarine fjords. |
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