Arctic Ocean over the Arctic Ocean (see Polar route). The Arctic Ocean occupies a roughly circular basin and covers an area of about , almost the size of Antarctica. The coastline is long. It is surrounded by the land masses of Eurasia, North America, Greenland, and by several islands. It is generally taken to include Baffin Bay, Barents Sea, Beaufort Sea, Chukchi Sea, East Siberian Sea, Greenland Sea, Hudson Bay, Hudson Strait, Kara Sea, Laptev Sea, White Sea and other tributary bodies of water. It is connected to the Pacific Ocean by the Bering Strait and to the Atlantic Ocean through the
Kara Ben Nemsi In the story "An der Tigerbrücke" (within "Am Stillen Ocean", 1894) the first-person narrator mentions, that he is identical to Kara Ben Nemsi and Old Shatterhand. Within the book series "Karl May’s Gesammelte Werke" there is a sequel of "Am Jenseits": „In Mekka“ (1923) by Franz Kandolf. Kara Ben Nemsi Kara Ben Nemsi (in Arabic: كارة بن نمسي Karl The [Son of] Austrian, meant was "Karl the son of Germans") is a fictional character in the works of Karl May, best-selling 19th century German writer. An alter ego of the author, everything is written from the first person perspective. He