The Barents Sea was formerly known to Russians as '''Murmanskoye Morye''', or the "Sea of Murmans" (i.e., Norwegians), and it appears with this name in sixteenth-century maps, including [[Gerard Mercator]]'s ''Map of the Arctic'' published in his 1595 atlas.
Seabed mapping was completed in 1933 with the first full map produced by Russian marine geologist [[Maria Klenova]].