Sea
A sea is a large expanse of saline water connected with an ocean, or a large, usually saline, lake that lacks a natural outlet such as the Caspian Sea and the Dead Sea. more...
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The term is used colloquially as synonymous with ocean, as in "the tropical sea" or "down to the sea shore", or even "sea water" to refer to water of the ocean. Large lakes, such as the Great Lakes, are sometimes referred to as inland seas. Many seas are marginal seas, in which currents are caused by ocean winds; others are mediterranean seas, in which currents are caused by differences in salinity and temperature.
The International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) is the world authority when it comes to defining seas. The current defining document is the Special publication S-23, Limits of Oceans and Seas, 3rd edition, 1953. The second edition dated back to 1937, and the first to 1928. A fourth edition draft was published in 1986 but so far several naming disputes (such as the one over the Sea of Japan) have prevented its ratification.
List of seas
Atlantic Ocean
Baffin Bay;
Gulf of St. Lawrence;
Bay of Fundy;
Caribbean Sea;
Gulf of Mexico;
Sargasso Sea†;
North Sea;
Baltic Sea
Central Baltic Sea;
Gulf of Bothnia
Bay of Bothnia;
Bothnian Sea;
;
Gulf of Finland;
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Sea of the Hebrides;
Irish Sea;
Celtic Sea;
English Channel;
Mediterranean Sea
Adriatic Sea;
Aegean Sea
Mirtoon Sea;
Sea of Crete;
Thracian Sea;
;
Alboran Sea;
Marmara Sea;
Black Sea
Sea of Azov;
;
Catalan Sea;
Ionian Sea;
Ligurian Sea;
Tyrrhenian Sea;
Gulf of Sidra;
Sea of Marmara;
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Arctic Ocean
Hudson Bay
James Bay;
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Barents Sea;
Kara Sea;
Beaufort Sea;
Amundsen Gulf;
Greenland Sea;
Norwegian Sea;
Chukchi Sea;
Laptev Sea;
East Siberian Sea;
White Sea;
Lincoln Sea;
Indian Ocean
Red Sea;
Gulf of Aden;
Persian Gulf;
Gulf of Oman;
Arabian Sea;
Bay of Bengal;
Andaman Sea;
Timor Sea;
Pacific Ocean
Chilean Sea;
Bering Sea;
Gulf of Alaska;
Salish Sea;
Sea of Cortez (Gulf of California);
Sea of Okhotsk;
Sea of Japan;
Seto Inland Sea;
East China Sea;
South China Sea;
Sulu Sea;
Celebes Sea;
Bohol Sea (Mindanao Sea);
Philippine Sea;
Camotes Sea;
Flores Sea;
Banda Sea;
Arafura Sea;
Timor Sea;
Tasman Sea;
Yellow Sea;
Bohai Sea;
Coral Sea;
Gulf of Carpentaria;
Bismarck Sea;
Solomon Sea;
Ceram Sea;
Halmahera Sea;
Molucca Sea;
Savu Sea;
Java Sea;
Gulf of Thailand;
Southern Ocean
Weddell Sea;
Ross Sea;
Great Australian Bight;
Gulf Saint Vincent;
Spencer Gulf;
Scotia Sea;
Amundsen Sea;
Bellingshausen Sea;
Davis Sea;
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