Queen Victoria Sea the Sjuøyane in Svalbard and as far east as Rudolf Island in the Franz Josef Archipelago. The islands of Kvitøya and Victoria Island are located at the southern limit of this Arctic sea. To the south lies the Barents Sea. Queen Victoria Sea The Queen Victoria Sea (, "Morye Korolevy Viktorii") is a body of water in the Arctic Ocean, stretching from northeast of Svalbard to northwest Franz Josef Land. It is obstructed by ice most of the year. This sea is named after Queen Victoria. Russian Arctic explorer Valentin Akkuratov claimed that a branch of the Gulf Stream reached
East Siberian taiga ("Canis lupus"), moose ("Alces alces") and wild reindeer ("Rangifer tarandus") in Russia. Further south mammals in the East Siberian taiga include Siberian musk deer ("Moschus moschiferus"), Altai wapiti also known as Asian elk ("Cervus canadensis sibiricus") and wild boar ("Sus scrofa"). Birds of this ecoregion include the golden eagle ("Aquila chrysaetos"), peregrine falcon ("Falco peregrinus"), osprey ("Pandion haliaetus"), black stork ("Ciconia nigra"), hooded crane ("Grus monacha"), carrion crow ("Corvus corone"), the Siberian blue and rufous-tailed robins ("Luscinia cyane" and "L. sibilans", respectively), the thrush nightingale ("Luscinia luscinia"), Pallas's rosefinch ("Carpodacus roseus"), Pacific swift ("Apus pacificus") and Baikal teal ("Anas formosa").