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The Black Sea along with the Caspian Sea is part of the zebra mussel's native range. The mussel has been accidentally introduced around the world and become an invasive species where it has been introduced. Common carp; The common carp's native range extends to the Black Sea along with the Caspian Sea and Aral Sea. Like the zebra mussel, the ...
The Caspian Sea is the world's largest inland body of water, described as the world's largest lake and usually referred to as a full-fledged sea. [2] [3] [4] An endorheic basin, it lies between Europe and Asia: east of the Caucasus, west of the broad steppe of Central Asia, south of the fertile plains of Southern Russia in Eastern Europe, and north of the mountainous Iranian Plateau.
Beaufort Sea: marginal sea: North of Alaska and Canada [30] 2.20: Sea of Marmara: mediterranean sea: Between the Balkan Peninsula and the Anatolian peninsula [31] 3.17: Chilika Lake: lagoon: India [32] 1.30–2.30: Black Sea: mediterranean sea: Between Europe and Asia - Balkan Peninsula, Eastern Europe, Anatolia, Caucasus [33] 2.30: Lake Van ...
The Eastern limits of the Philippine Sea [P 1] and Japan Sea [P 2] and the Southeastern limit of the Sea of Okhotsk. [P 3] On the North. The Southern limits of the Bering Sea [P 4] and the Gulf of Alaska. [P 5] On the East. The Western limit of Coastal waters of Southeast Alaska and Br. Columbia, [P 6] and the Southern limit of the Gulf of ...
The Eurasia Canal (Канал "Евразия", Kanal "Evraziya") is a proposed 700-kilometre-long (430 mi) canal connecting the Caspian Sea to the Black Sea along the Kuma-Manych Depression. Currently, a chain of lakes and reservoirs and the shallow irrigation Kuma–Manych Canal are found along this route.
Azeri President Ilham Aliyev on Monday discussed with Russian President Vladimir Putin his concern over what he said was the "catastrophic" shrinking of the Caspian Sea, and said that the two had ...
As of 2007–2008, Russian authorities were considering two options for increasing the throughput of navigable waterways between the Caspian basin and the Black Sea. One option, which reuses the name "Volga–Don 2", is to build a second parallel channel ("second thread") of the Volga–Don Canal, equipped with larger locks 300 metres (980 ft ...
Caspian Sea [3] Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Russia, Iran. Caspian endorheic basin: 371,000 km 2 (143,000 sq mi) 78,200 km 3 (18,800 cu mi) 1.2% Baikal [4] Russia. Southern Siberia: Buryatia and Irkutsk Oblast: 31,722 km 2 (12,248 sq mi) 23,610 km 3 (5,660 cu mi) Fresh Tanganyika Tanzania, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi, Zambia