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- The Arabian Sea is located in the northwestern part of the Indian ... The Sea provides an important link between the neighboring areas of ...10 KB (1,516 words) - 21:28, 11 August 2023
- The Caribbean Sea is a tropical sea in the Western Hemisphere, part ... The sea's deepest point is the Cayman Trough, between Cuba and ...13 KB (1,964 words) - 18:09, 14 November 2021
- Sea lion is the common name for various eared seals currently comprising ... Seven species, including one recently extinct (the Japanese sea lion ...11 KB (1,599 words) - 02:40, 21 April 2023
- The Adriatic Sea is part of the Mediterranean Sea separating the Italian ... The sea's western coast runs the length of Italy, while the eastern ...13 KB (2,044 words) - 06:18, 15 June 2023
- movement, specifically when Antarctica and South America moved apart during ... feared because of their year round peril to sea faring vessels. ...9 KB (1,422 words) - 15:39, 4 February 2023
- and walruses), and several otters (the sea otter and marine otter). Some ... The cetaceans and sirenians are completely aquatic. Sea otters, although ...9 KB (1,370 words) - 15:58, 6 November 2022
- South Korea or Republic of Korea, is located in East Asia at approximately ... Surrounded on its other three sides by water, South Korea has 2,413 ...14 KB (2,131 words) - 06:52, 18 April 2024
- size and a more pointed snout than the sea lions in the same family ... species and variously known as either fur seals or sea lions. ...12 KB (1,705 words) - 07:37, 23 January 2023
- in seven genera commonly known either as sea lions or fur seals. ... been hunted for their furs, while sea lions have been trained for ...14 KB (2,040 words) - 01:25, 16 January 2023
- The Bering Sea is the northernmost part of the Pacific Ocean that ... The Bering Sea is separated from the Gulf of Alaska by the Alaska ...15 KB (2,176 words) - 11:00, 28 September 2023
- off eastern Siberia along a general north-south axis, Florida-like, between ... to a giant fish, with the head at the south. The population density is ...9 KB (1,374 words) - 02:34, 5 October 2022
- Oxley was appointed surveyor-general of New South Wales in 1812, and retained ... appointed Surveyor-General of Lands in New South Wales. In April 1815, he ...8 KB (1,276 words) - 07:02, 3 August 2022
- Hallasan (한라산, 漢拏山), a shield volcano on Jeju Island of ... is presently about 100 m (300 ft) below sea level in that area. Eruptions ...6 KB (934 words) - 22:48, 3 August 2023
- on September 2, 31 B.C.E., on the Ionian Sea near the Roman colony of Actium ... warships through the straits toward the open sea. There he met the fleet of ...9 KB (1,410 words) - 05:41, 15 June 2023
- A fjord (or fiord) is a long, narrow deep inlet of the sea bordered ... the climate warms and glaciers retreat. Sea level rises due to an influx ...16 KB (2,484 words) - 17:33, 28 March 2024
- The Aral Sea (Kazakh: Арал Теңізі, Aral Tengizi, ... , Russian: Аральскοе мοре) a landlocked endorheic sea ...21 KB (3,162 words) - 21:29, 11 August 2023
- The Sea of Galilee or Lake Kinneret (Hebrew ים כנרת), is Israel ... River, which flows through it from north to south. The lake is situated deep ...16 KB (2,502 words) - 17:32, 25 January 2023
- through the Great Rift Valley into the Dead Sea. The Jordan River, with the ... From its source to its Dead Sea destination 124 miles away (200 kilometers ...11 KB (1,837 words) - 07:37, 27 February 2023
- periods (such as the current epoch). A sea that lies over a continental ... sharply, called the shelf break. The sea floor below the break is called ...10 KB (1,465 words) - 02:48, 8 January 2024
- the lake was originally part of the Baltic Sea that separated from the main ... commercial conduit between the Baltic Sea and the Volga River. In order ...10 KB (1,501 words) - 23:18, 21 October 2022
- The Caspian Sea (Russian: Kaspiyskoye More; Persian: Daryaye Khezer ... processed into caviar, come from the Caspian Sea. In recent years dessication ...18 KB (2,737 words) - 14:23, 29 November 2023
- in Africa, Europe, Asia, North America, and South America. The Sea Otter (Enhydra ... predators as foxes, wolves, and raptors. Sea otters are a keystone species ...15 KB (2,407 words) - 10:52, 11 March 2023
- Sunda Islands, and Australia; and on the south by the Southern Ocean (or ... (28,400,000 mi²), including the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf. ...15 KB (2,187 words) - 18:45, 7 February 2023
- The Sea of Okhotsk (Russian: Охо́тское мо́ре; English ... This expansive sea—611,000 square miles (1,583,000 sq km)—is considered ...21 KB (3,208 words) - 17:32, 25 January 2023
- 15,000 kilometers (9,300 miles) to the south is the Antarctic Circle, ... solstice up to about 90 km (56 miles) south of the Arctic Circle; similarly ...9 KB (1,433 words) - 06:21, 12 August 2023
- Africa and close relatives, the llamas, in South America, and the predictions ... During sometime in the Oligocene, South America was finally separated ...6 KB (898 words) - 00:21, 18 November 2022
- square kilometers between the Mediterranean Sea (to the north) and Red Sea ... interior comes to an abrupt end at the Red Sea, where coral reefs along the ...12 KB (1,929 words) - 22:24, 29 January 2023
- is equidistant from both the North Pole and South Poles and divides the Earth ... *The South Temperate Zone, between the Tropic of Capricorn and the ...13 KB (1,881 words) - 08:03, 23 January 2023
- death adders, and, in some taxonomies, sea snakes. Elapids are found ... eels in the case of the partially marine sea kraits and fish, squid, and ...24 KB (3,370 words) - 21:57, 24 December 2021
- The South Pole, also known as the geographic South Pole or Terrestrial ... The South Pole is a central site for environmental research and provides ...23 KB (3,208 words) - 15:38, 4 February 2023
- consider the sixth population in the Laptev Sea to be a third subspecies, ... days at a time either on land or in the sea. Diving to depths of 90 meters ...11 KB (1,787 words) - 18:47, 17 April 2023
- of Independence as a representative of South Carolina. Of the 56 Signers ... Lynch, Jr. was a third generation public servant in South Carolina ...9 KB (1,377 words) - 21:21, 30 April 2023
- than in both the earlier and later eras, and sea levels rose up to 200 meters ... and Eurasia, while Gondwana split into South America, Africa, Australia ...11 KB (1,570 words) - 10:34, 10 March 2023
- as continents: Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe ... as shorelines vary with changes in sea level. Coastal islands may ...22 KB (3,308 words) - 19:07, 19 May 2020
- (otarids) and include fur seals and sea lions. As with all pinnipeds ... larger, and faster swimming than the sea otters, which have retained ...18 KB (2,671 words) - 02:44, 21 April 2023
- 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
