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A 16th-century map of the Black Sea by Diogo Homem Greek colonies (8th–3rd century BCE) of the Black Sea (Euxine, or "hospitable" sea) The Black Sea was a busy waterway on the crossroads of the ancient world: the Balkans to the west, the Eurasian steppes to the north, the Caucasus and Central Asia to the east, Asia Minor and Mesopotamia to ...
The World Ocean. For example, the Law of the Sea states that all of the World Ocean is "sea", [8] [9] [10] [b] and this is also common usage for "the sea". Any large body of water with "Sea" in the name, including lakes. River – a narrow strip of water that flows over land from a higher elevation to a lower one
Popular discussion of this early Holocene Black Sea flood scenario was headlined in The New York Times in December 1996 [10] and later published as a book. [9] In a series of expeditions widely covered by mainstream media, a team of marine archaeologists led by Robert Ballard identified what appeared to be ancient shorelines, freshwater snail shells, drowned river valleys, tool-worked timbers ...
From this perspective, the Earth has three oceans: the World Ocean, the Caspian Sea, [citation needed] and the Black Sea. The latter two were formed by the collision of Cimmeria with Laurasia . The Mediterranean Sea is at times a discrete ocean because tectonic plate movement has repeatedly broken its connection to the World Ocean through the ...
Barnegat Bay in New Jersey, United States. Budi Lake in Araucanía, Chile. Indian River Lagoon in Florida, United States. Lagoa dos Patos in Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil. Laguna de Términos in Campeche, Mexico. Lake Pontchartrain in Louisiana, United States. Simpson Bay Lagoon on the island of Saint Martin.
The Bosporus connects the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara and forms one of the continental boundaries between Asia and Europe. It also divides Turkey by separating Asia minor from Thrace. It is the world's narrowest strait used for international navigation .
Adalary [ ru; uk], pair of rocks near Gurzuf, Crimea. Berezan Island. Dovhyi Island and smaller Kruhly, Velyky and Konsky islands in the Yahorlyk Bay. Dzharylhach Island - the largest one in the Black Sea (56 km 2) Kalanchak Islands [ uk], Oyster Islands [ uk] and others in the Karkinit Bay, east of Dzharylhach.
Location map of Black Sea. / 44.071; 34.5335. Module:Location map/data/Black Sea is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of Black Sea. The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.