Seas

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Lincoln Sea

A body of water in the Arctic Ocean stretching from Caoe Columbia, Canada, in the west to Cape Morris Jesup, Greenland, in the east.

English Channel

A body of water that separates southern England from northern France.

California Gulf (Cortez Sea)

A body of water that separates the Baja California Peninsula from the Mexican mainland.

Ross Sea

A deep bay of the Southern Ocean in Antarctica between Victoria Land and Marie Byrd Land.

Biscay Bay

A gulf of the northeast Atlantic Ocean located south of the Celtic Sea, and lies along the western coast of France and goes to the Spanish border.

Great Australian Bight

A large open bay off the central and western portions of the southern coastline of mainland Australia.

Carpentaria Gulf

A large shallow sea enclosed on three sides by northern Australia and bounded on the north by the Arafura Sea.

Java Sea

A large shallow sea in Indonesia, lying between some of the islands on the Sunda Shelf.

Philippine Sea

A marginal sea east and northeast of the Philippines occupying about 5 million km squared of the western part of the North Pacific.

East China Sea

A marginal sea east of China, and is part of the Pacific ocean and covers over 1,000,000 square kilometers.

East Siberian Sea

A marginal sea in the Arctic Ocean and is located between the Arctic Cape and Siberia.

Norwegian Sea

A marginal sea in the North Atlantic Ocean northwest of Norway, located between the North Sea and the Greenland Sea and adjoins the North Atlantic Ocean to the west and the Barents Sea to the northeast.

Chukchi Sea

A marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean and bounded by the Long Strait in the west, and Point Barrow, Alaska in the east.

Beaufort Sea

A marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean located north of the Northwest Territories, the Yukon, and Alaska, west of Canada's Arctic islands.

Barents Sea

A marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean, located off the northern coasts of Norway and Russia.

Coral Sea

A marginal sea of the South Pacific off the northeast coast of Australia and classified as an interim Australian bio-region.

Chiloe Sea

A marginal sea off the coast of Chile that is separated from the Pacific Ocean by the Chiloe Island.

Davis Strait

A northern arm of the Labrador Sea, and lies between mid western Greenland and Nunavut) and it is to the south of Baffin Bay.

Mawson Sea

A proposed name along the Queen Mary Land coast of East Antarctica east of the Shackleton Ice Shelf.

King Haakon VII Sea

A proposed name for part of the Southern Ocean on the coast of East Antarctica.

Arabian Sea

A region of the northern India Ocean bounded on the north by Pakistan and Iran, on the west by northeastern Somalia and the Arabian Peninsula, and on the east of India.

Red Sea

A saltwater inlet of the Indian Ocean lying between African and Asia.

Dead Sea

A sea border the West Bank of Israel and Jordan and contains the lowest point on dry land (400 meters below sea level). It has hyper saline water and famous mineral rich black mud.

Azov Sea

A sea in eastern Europe, linked to the south by the Strait of Kerch to the Black Sea, and sometimes regarded as a northern extension to the black sea.

Banda Sea

A sea in the Maluku Islands of Indonesia, connected by the Pacific Oceans, and surrounded by hundreds of islands.

Koro Sea

A sea in the Pacific Ocean between the Lau and Fiji islands.

D'Urville Sea

A sea in the southern ocean off the coast of east Antarctica.

Celebes Sea

A sea in the western Pacific bordered by the Sulu Archipelego and Sulu Sea and Mindanao Island of the Philippines.

Caribbean Sea

A sea of the Atlantic Ocean in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere, bounded by Mexico and Central America.

Flores Sea

A sea on Indonesia surrounding the island of Flores.

Bass Strait

A sea strait separating Tasmania from the Australian mainland, specifically the state of Victoria.

Camotes Sea

A small sea within the Philippine archipelago, between the Eastern Visayan and the Central Visayan regions.

Oman Gulf

A strait that connect the Arabian sea with the Strait of Hormuz, which then runs to the Persian Gulf, and borders Pakistan, Iran, Oman, and the United Arab Emirates.

Lion Gulf

A wide embayment of the Mediterranean coastline of Languedoc-Roussillon and Province of France reaching from the border with Catalonia in the west to Toulon.

Bohai Sea

Also called Bo Sea and the Bo Gulf, is the innermost gulf of the Yellow Sea and Korea Bay on the coast of Northeastern and North China.

Galilee Sea

Also called Lake Tiberias, is a large freshwater lake in Israel.

Ceram Sea

Also called Seram Sea is one of the small seas between the scattered islands of Indonesia.

Campeche Bay

Also called campeche Sound, is the southern bight of the bodies of water of the Gulf of Mexico, and is surrounded on three sides by Mexican states.

Denmark Strait

Also called the Greenland strait, is the strait between Iceland and Greenland.

Laccadive Sea

Also called the Lakshadweep See is the body of water bordering India, the Maldives, and Sri Lanka.

Bohol Sea (Mindanao Sea)

Also called the Mindanao Sea, located between Visayas and Mindanao in the Philippines.

Japan Sea

Also known as the East Sea that is between Japan and the Asian mainland and is bordered by Japan, North Korea, Russia, and South Korea.

Balearic Sea

Also known as the Iberian or Catalan Sea, is a body of water in the Mediterranean Sea near the Balearic Islands, and the Ebro river flows into it.

Bellingshausen Sea

An area along the west side of the Antarctic Peninsula.

Euboic Sea

An arm of the Aegean Sea between the is;and of Euboea and the Greek mainland.

Mozambique Channel

An arm of the Indian Ocean between Madagascar and Mozambique.

Ligurian Sea

An arm of the Mediterranean Sea between Riviera and the island of Corsica.

Labrador Sea

An arm of the North Atlantic Ocean between the Labrador Peninsula and Greenland and is flanked by continental shelves to the southwest, northwest, and northeast.

Amundsen Sea

An arm of the Southern Ocean, off of western Antarctica.

Ionian Sea

An elongated embayment of the Mediterranean sea and south of the Adriatic Sea and is bounded by southern Italy.

Aral Sea

An endorheic lake lying between Kazakhstan in the north and Uzbekistan in the south.

Chesapeake Bay

An estuary lying inland from the Atlantic Ocean and surrounded by the North American mainland to the west, and is the largest body of it in the continuous United States.

Marmara Sea

An inland sea, entirely within the borders of Turkey.

Davis Sea

Area of sea along the coast of East Antarctica between West Ice Shelf and the Shackleton Ice Shelf.

Gulf of Alaska

Arm of the Pacific defined by the curve of the southern coast of Alaska.

Black Sea

Body of water between Eastern Europe and Western Asia, bounded by Bulgaria, Georgia, Romania, Russia, Turkey, and Ukraine, and is supplied by a large amount of local rivers.

Drake Passage (Hoces Sea)

Body of water between South America's Cape Horn and the South Shetland islands of Antarctica.

Adriatic Sea

Body of water seperating the Italian Peninsula from the Balakan peninsula and the Apennine Mountains from the Dinaric Alps.

Greenland Sea

Body of water that borders Greenland to the west, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and Iceland to the south.

Andaman Sea

Body of water to the southeast of the bay of Bengal, south of Myanmar, and west of Thailand.

Finland Gulf

Eastern most arm of the Baltic Sea, and extends between Finland and Estonia to Russia.

Oresund Strait

Forms the Danish-Swedish border and separates Sjaelland from Skane.

Aden Gulf

Gulf located in the Arabian Sea between Yemen, and is on the south coast of the Arabian Peninsula, and Somalia in the Horn of African.

Amundsen Gulf

Gulf located in the Canadian Northwest territories between the mainland, Banks Island, and Victoria Island.

Salish Sea

Intricate network of coastal waterways that includes the southwestern portion of the Canadian province of British Columbia and the northwestern portion of the U.S. state of Washington.

Hudson Bay

Large body of saltwater in northeastern Canada.

James Bay

Large body of water in the southern end of the Hudson Bay in Canada.

Bismarck Sea

Lies in the southwestern Pacific Ocean to the north of New Guinea.

Arafura Sea

Lies west of the Pacific Ocean overlying the continental shelf between the Australian and Indonesian New Guinea.

Bothnian Sea

Links the Bothnian Bay to the Baltic proper, and together with the Bothnian Bay make up the Bothnia Gulf.

Baffin Bay

Located between Baffin Island and the southwest coast of Greenland, and is a marginal sea of the North Atlantic Ocean, and is connected to the Atlantic by the Davis Strait and the Labrador Sea.

Molucca Sea

Located in the western Pacific Ocean around the vicinity of Indonesia specifically bordered by the islands of Celebes, Halmahera, and Sula islands.

Laptev Sea

Marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean and is located between Siberia, and the New Siberian Islands.

Prince Gustav Adolf Sea

Marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean located in Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada.

North Sea

Marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean located between Great Britain, Scandinavia, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, and France.

Bering Sea

Marginal sea of the Pacific Ocean, made of a deep water basin, which then rises through a narrow slope into the shallower water above the continental shelves.

Okhotsk Sea

Marginal sea of the western Pacific Ocean, bordering the eastern Russia coast.

Mexico Gulf

Ocean basin largely surrounded by the North American continent.

Crete Sea

Part of the Aegean Sea, is a body of water to the north of largest Greece Island of Crete, and surrounded by several other smaller island.

Kara Sea

Part of the Arctic Ocean north of Siberia, is separated from the Barents Sea to the west, and the Laptev sea to the east.

Libyan Sea

Portion of the Mediterranean Sea, north of the African coast of eastern Libya and western Egypt.

Hebrides Sea

Portion of the North Atlantic Ocean located off the coast of western Scotland.

Chilean Sea

Portion of the Pacific Ocean lying west of the Chilean mainland.

Halmahera Sea

Regional sea located in the central eastern part of the Australian Mediterranean Sea.

Pechora Sea

Sea in northwest of Russia, the eastern part of the Barents Sea.

Baltic Sea

Sea of the Atlantic Ocean surrounded by Scandinavia, Finland, Baltic countries, and the North European plain.

Irish Sea

Separates the islands of Ireland and Great Britain.

Mirtoan Sea

Subdivision of the Mediterranean Sea that lies between the Cyclades and the Peloponnese.

Celtic Sea

The area off the Atlantic Ocean off the south coast of Ireland and bounded to the east by Saint George's Channel.

Bengal Bay

The largest bay in the world, and forms the northeastern part of the Indian Ocean, bordered by India, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh.

Caspian Sea

The largest enclosed inland body of water on Earth by area, and also classed as the world's largest lake/sea. It is a basin between Europe and Asia.

Guinea Gulf

The north easternmost part of the tropical Atlantic Ocean and has the intersection of the Equator and Prime Meridian.

Bothnia Gulf

The northern most arm of the Baltic Sea, situated between Finland's west coast and Sweden's east coast.

Argentine Sea

The sea within the continental shelf off the Argentine mainland.

Alboran Sea

The westernmost portion of the Mediterranean Sea lying between the Iberian Peninsula and the north of Africa.

Bothnia Bay

This is the northernmost part of the Gulf of Bothnia, which is in turn the northern part of the Baltic Sea.

Aegean Gulf

A bay of the Mediterranean Sea located between the mainlands of Greece and Turkey.

Fundy Bay

A bay on the Atlantic coast of North America on the northeast end of the Gulf of Maine.

Persian Gulf

A Mediterranean sea in the Western Asia that is an extension of the India Ocean through the strait of Hormuz and lies between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula.

Kara Strait

A 56 km wide channel of water that connects the Kara Sea and the Barents Sea in northern Russia.


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