Search results for "South Sea" - New World Encyclopedia
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- Henry Hudson (September 12, 1570s – 1611) was an English sea explorer ... unknown regions in search of a commercial sea route to the Indies. Yet his ...9 KB (1,487 words) - 15:22, 25 January 2023
- Ganghwa Island, the fifth largest island in South Korea, sits in the ... #039;s highest point at 469 meters above sea level, and offered sacrifices ...8 KB (1,114 words) - 04:25, 18 April 2024
- or streams mixes with saltwater from the sea. Estuaries are often associated ... means "tide" or "boiling (of the sea)." ...10 KB (1,449 words) - 04:23, 22 March 2024
- ) is a rocky headland on the Atlantic coast of South Africa. It is ... the great optimism engendered by opening a sea route to the East. ...15 KB (2,280 words) - 00:36, 13 January 2023
- A submarine canyon is a steep-sided valley on the sea floor of the ... were carved during glacial times, when the sea level was about 200 meters ...14 KB (2,019 words) - 19:29, 25 November 2023
- Mifratz Eilat) is a large gulf of the Red Sea. It is located to the east ... The Gulf of Aqaba, like the coastal waters of the Red Sea, is one ...15 KB (2,306 words) - 08:25, 8 January 2024
- seas and the Caucasus Mountains on the south; and the Ural Mountains. ... many years Europe was divided on a North-South axis. With the southern Mediterranean ...17 KB (2,344 words) - 17:40, 12 February 2024
- minimize the by-catch. Preservation of the sea bed, including the spawning ... is towing the trawl along or close to the sea floor. Bottom trawling can ...14 KB (2,235 words) - 14:52, 2 May 2023
- in 1640 and 1641 and to Palembang in the south of Sumatra in 1642, where ... of the Dutch East Indies. Proceeding south he skirted the southern end ...12 KB (1,843 words) - 04:46, 14 June 2023
- The Black Sea is an inland sea between southeastern Europe and the ... Countries bordering the Black Sea are Turkey to the south, Bulgaria ...25 KB (3,749 words) - 18:07, 31 October 2023
- The Baltic Sea is a semi-enclosed inland sea located in Northern Europe ... Similar to the Black Sea, the Baltic is one of the most brackish bodies ...25 KB (3,903 words) - 03:20, 17 September 2023
- is the only self-governing province in South Korea; situated on and coterminous ... Jeju-do lies at the confluence of the Korea Strait, the Yellow Sea ...15 KB (2,191 words) - 18:01, 2 April 2024
- (7000 B.C.E. to 3200 B.C.E.) sites in South Asia. Archaeological digs ... left with burials of males. Ornaments of sea shell, limestone, turquoise ...11 KB (1,633 words) - 04:13, 9 November 2022
- (as an offering to Tangaroa, god of the sea). Another longstanding example ... Holt, published a seminal work on North Sea commercial species fisheries ...15 KB (2,206 words) - 17:26, 28 March 2024
- This inland sea of some 251,000 km² is connected to the Gulf of ... line (North Field in the Qatari sector; South Pars Field in the Iranian ...14 KB (2,162 words) - 00:43, 24 November 2022
- and islets within the Atlantic Ocean, North Sea, Irish Sea, Celtic Sea, and ... ten degrees of latitude on its longer north-south axis. Geographically, the ...13 KB (1,955 words) - 12:20, 24 January 2023
- the term includes smaller spaces like sea caves, rock shelters, and ... America, and Oceania but are sparse in South America, Africa, and Antarctica ...13 KB (2,017 words) - 16:20, 3 December 2023
- another reason: The oilfields of the North Sea, near the United Kingdom and ... Southern Hemisphere, including Antarctica, South America, Africa, India, and ...11 KB (1,508 words) - 16:34, 14 May 2024
- Dias died at sea in 1550, in a storm off the Cape. Just over a century ... court. The family is said to have had a sea-faring history. Dias was well ...10 KB (1,706 words) - 11:00, 20 September 2023
- The Sunshine Policy was the foreign policy of South Korea towards ... improved climate from the authoritarian South Korean regimes before 1992 ...14 KB (2,030 words) - 13:54, 28 April 2023
