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
Jean Balfour Jean Balfour Jean Balfour ( née Drew, 4 November 1927) is a Scottish professional forester, landowner and conservationist. She earned her B.S. with honours from the University of Edinburgh in 1949. She married John Charles Balfour in 1950. Balfour is a partner/owner of Balbirnie Home Farms and Balbirnie Dairy Farm. The Scourie estate is also owned by her. Balfour is interested in arctic alpine vegetation and has taken part in many botanical expeditions including Greenland, Ellsemere Island, Spitzbergen, Franz Joseph Land, Novaya Zemlya, Severnaya Zemlya, and arctic Siberia to collect field data. Her data has been used in collaboration with