Siberian Shelf Siberian Shelf The Siberian Shelf, one of the Arctic Ocean coastal shelves (such as the Milne Ice Shelf), is the largest continental shelf of the Earth, a part of the continental shelf of Russia. It extends from the continent of Eurasia in the general area of North Siberia (hence the name) into the Arctic Ocean. It stretches to offshore. It is relatively shallow, with average depth of 100 m. A number of islands are within the shelf, including the Wrangel Island, Novaya Zemlya, and the New Siberian Islands. It is encompassed by the Kara Sea, Laptev Sea, and East Siberian
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").