In September 2010, two yachts completed circumnavigation of the Arctic: Børge Ousland's team aboard The Northern Passage, and Sergei Murzayev's team in the Peter I.
Northern Ireland | Black Sea | Mediterranean Sea | Baltic Sea | North Sea | Northern Territory | Red Sea | Caspian Sea | Caribbean Sea | Adriatic Sea | Northern Pacific Railway | Kimberley, Northern Cape | Northern Illinois University | Northern Cape | Northern England | Aegean Sea | U.S. Route 66 | South China Sea | Army of Northern Virginia | U.S. Route 1 | Northern California | Sea of Japan | Northern Italy | Royal Northern College of Music | Northern Ireland national football team | Northern | Northern Hemisphere | Northern Exposure | Irish Sea | Westland Sea King |
Named in 1954 by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Professor Otto Schmidt, director of the Arctic Institute at Leningrad in 1930-32, head of the Chief Administration of the Northern Sea Route in 1932-39, and leader of many Arctic expeditions.