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Marginal seas as defined by the International Hydrographic Organization [1] This is a list of seas of the World Ocean, including marginal seas, areas of water, various gulfs, bights, bays, and straits. [2] In many cases it is a matter of tradition for a body of water to be named a sea or a bay, etc., therefore all these types are listed here.
In turn, oceanic waters are interspersed by many smaller seas, gulfs, and bays. If viewed from the southern pole of Earth, the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans can be seen as lobes extending northward from the Southern Ocean.
[91] [109] Because sea ice is less dense than water, it floats on the ocean's surface (as does fresh water ice, which has an even lower density). Sea ice covers about 7% of the Earth's surface and about 12% of the world's oceans. [110] [111] [112] Sea ice usually starts to freeze at the very surface, initially as a very thin ice film.
The sea is the interconnected system of all the Earth's oceanic waters, including the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Southern and Arctic Oceans. [1] However, the word "sea" can also be used for many specific, much smaller bodies of seawater, such as the North Sea or the Red Sea.
Saronic Gulf, which extends into Greece from the Aegean Sea. Gulf of Riga in the Baltic Sea; Gulf of Taranto in the Mediterranean between the toe and the heel of Italy; Gulf of Varna, Black Sea, Bulgaria; Gulf of Venice, at the head of the Adriatic Sea between Italy, Slovenia and Croatia
World map of the five-ocean model with approximate boundaries. This list of countries which border two or more oceans includes both sovereign states and dependencies, provided the same contiguous territory borders on more than one of the five named oceans, the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, and Arctic. [1]
Covering two-thirds of the planet, the sea is a workplace for more than 50 million people. Aside from being vital, the oceans are also distinctly fascinating for the universality and peculiarity ...
A sea is a body of saline water partially to fully enclosed by land. It is often a sub-division of one of the Earth's five oceans. See also List of seas.