Coastal and Oceanic Landform (42. Sea )

                                                                                                                                         Back to Coastal and Oceanic Landform

• A sea is a large body of saline water.

• Connected with an ocean/ saline lake.

• Frozen salt water is transformed into "sea ice".

• Hannu was the first sea explorer.

• Phoenicians &  Greeks established Black Sea. 

• The White Sea was known to Novgorodians.

•  Other seas in Arctic Russia were explored in connection with the search of the Northern Sea Route.

 examples

• Baltic Sea
• Mediterranean Sea
• Argentine Sea
• Irish Sea
• Labrador Sea
• Marmara Sea
• Barents Sea
• Beaufort Sea
• Chukchi Sea
• Laptev Sea
• Lincoln Sea
• Prince Gustav Adolf Sea
• Pechora Sea
• White Sea
• Bellingshausen Sea
• Cooperation Sea
• Cosmonauts Sea
• Andaman Sea
• Arabian Sea