Laptev Sea Laptev Sea The Laptev Sea (; ) is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean. It is located between the northern coast of Siberia, the Taimyr Peninsula, Severnaya Zemlya and the New Siberian Islands. Its northern boundary passes from the Arctic Cape to a point with co-ordinates of 79°N and 139°E, and ends at the Anisiy Cape. The Kara Sea lies to the west, the East Siberian Sea to the east. The sea is named after the Russian explorers Dmitry Laptev and Khariton Laptev; formerly, it had been known under various names, the last being Nordenskiöld Sea (), after explorer
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").