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| x North Greenland | Arctic | ||||
| x North and East Iceland | Arctic | ||||
| x East Greenland Shelf | Arctic | ||||
| x West Greenland Shelf | Arctic | ||||
| x Northern Grand Banks–Southern Labrador | Arctic | ||||
| x Northern Labrador | Arctic | ||||
| x Baffin Bay–Davis Strait | Arctic | ||||
| x Hudson Complex | Arctic |
The Hudson Complex is a marine ecoregion in Canada, part of the Arctic marine realm.
The Hudson Complex includes Hudson Bay and smaller James Bay to the south, as well as the Foxe Basin, Hudson Strait and Ungava Bay. The Canadian mainland surrounds...
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| x Lancaster Sound |
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Arctic | 74.2167 | -84 |
Lancaster Sound is an uninhabited body of water in Qikiqtaaluk, Nunavut, Canada. It is located between Devon Island and Baffin Island, forming the eastern portion of the Northwest Passage. East of the sound lies Baffin Bay; to the west lies Viscount...
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| x High Arctic Archipelago | Arctic | ||||
| x Beaufort-Amundsen-Viscount Melville-Queen Maud | Arctic | ||||
| x Beaufort Sea--continental coast and shelf | Arctic | ||||
| x Chukchi Sea |
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Arctic | 69.6886 | -171.4553 |
Chukchi Sea (Russian: Чуко́тское мо́ре) is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean. It is bounded on the west by the De Long Strait, off Wrangel Island, and in the east by Point Barrow, Alaska, beyond which lies the Beaufort Sea. The Bering Strait forms...
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| x Eastern Bering Sea | Arctic | ||||
| x East Siberian Sea |
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Arctic | 72.2861 | 164.1636 |
The East Siberian Sea (Russian: Восто́чно-Сиби́рское мо́ре) is a marginal sea in the Arctic Ocean. It is located between the Arctic Cape in the North, the coast of Siberia in the South, the New Siberian Islands in the West and Cape Billings, close...
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| x Laptev Sea |
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Arctic | 75.4178 | 125.7403 |
The Laptev Sea (Russian: мо́ре Ла́птевых) is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean. It is located between the eastern coast of Siberia, Taimyr Peninsula, the Severnaya Zemlya and the New Siberian Islands. Its northern boundary passes from the Arctic...
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| x Kara Sea |
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Arctic | 74.8319 | 71.3119 |
The Kara Sea (Russian: Ка́рское мо́ре) is part of the Arctic Ocean north of Siberia. It is separated from the Barents Sea to the west by the Kara Strait and Novaya Zemlya, and the Laptev Sea to the east by the Severnaya Zemlya.
The Kara Sea's...
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| x North and East Barents Sea | Arctic | ||||
| x White Sea |
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Arctic | 65.6547 | 36.8542 |
The White Sea (Russian: Бе́лое мо́ре, Finnish: Vienanmeri) is an inlet of the Barents Sea on the northwest coast of Russia. It is surrounded by Karelia to the west, the Kola peninsula to the north, and the Kanin Peninsula to the northeast.
The...
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| x South and West Iceland | Northern European Seas | ||||
| x Faroe Plateau | Northern European Seas | ||||
| x Southern Norway | Northern European Seas | ||||
| x Northern Norway and Finnmark | Northern European Seas | ||||
| x Baltic Sea |
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Northern European Seas | 59.5 | 23 |
The Baltic Sea is a brackish inland sea located in Northern Europe, from 53°N to 66°N latitude and from 20°E to 26°E longitude. It is bounded by the Scandinavian Peninsula, the mainland of Europe, and the Danish islands. It drains into the Kattegat...
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| x North Sea |
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Northern European Seas |
The North Sea is a marginal, epeiric sea on the European continental shelf. The Dover Strait and the English Channel in the south and the Norwegian Sea in the north connect it to the Atlantic Ocean. It is more than 970 kilometres (600 mi) long and...
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| x Celtic Sea |
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Northern European Seas | 50.5022 | -7.9144 |
The Celtic Sea (Irish: An Mhuir Cheilteach; Welsh: Y Môr Celtaidd; Cornish: An Mor Keltek; Breton: Ar Mor Keltiek; French: La Mer Celtique) is the area of the Atlantic Ocean off the south coast of Ireland. It is bounded to the east by Saint George's...
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| x South European Atlantic Shelf | Lusitanian | ||||
| x Saharan Upwelling | Lusitanian | ||||
| x Azores Canaries Madeira | Lusitanian | ||||
| x West African Transition | Lusitanian | ||||
| x Adriatic Sea |
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Mediterranean Sea |
The Adriatic Sea is a body of water separating the Italian Peninsula from the Balkan peninsula, and the system of the Apennine Mountains from that of the Dinaric Alps and adjacent ranges. The Adriatic Sea is a part of the Mediterranean Sea.
The...
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| x Aegean Sea |
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Mediterranean Sea | 39.2594 | 24.9525 |
The Aegean Sea (Greek: Αιγαίο Πέλαγος, Aigaio Pelagos [eˈʝeo ˈpelaɣos]( listen); Turkish: Ege Denizi ) is an elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea located between the southern Balkan and Anatolian peninsulas, i.e., between the mainlands of...
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| x Levantine Sea | Mediterranean Sea | ||||
| x Gulf of Sidra |
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Mediterranean Sea | 31.7667 | 18.5056 |
Gulf of Sidra is a body of water in the Mediterranean Sea on the northern coast of Libya; it is also known as Gulf of Sirte. It is located by the city of Sirte. In Ancient Rome it was known as Syrtis Maior (compare: Syrtis Minor).
Tuna fishing is of...
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| x Ionian Sea |
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Mediterranean Sea | 38.1011 | 18.2947 |
The Ionian Sea is an arm of the Mediterranean Sea, south of the Adriatic Sea. It is bounded by southern Italy including Calabria, Sicily and the Salento peninsula to the west, and by southwestern Albania, including Saranda and Himara, and a large...
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| x Western Mediterranean | Mediterranean Sea | ||||
| x Alboran Sea |
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Mediterranean Sea |
The Alboran Sea is the westernmost portion of the Mediterranean Sea, lying between Spain on the north and Morocco and Algeria on the south. The Strait of Gibraltar, which lies at the west end of the Alboran Sea, connects the Mediterranean with the...
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| x Scotian Shelf | Cold Temperate Northwest Atlantic | ||||
| x Gulf of Saint Lawrence |
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Cold Temperate Northwest Atlantic |
The Gulf of Saint Lawrence (French: golfe du Saint-Laurent), the world's largest estuary, is the outlet of North America's Great Lakes via the Saint Lawrence River into the Atlantic Ocean. It is a semi–enclosed sea, covering an area of about 236 000...
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| x Southern Grand Banks–South Newfoundland | Cold Temperate Northwest Atlantic | ||||
| x Gulf of Maine |
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Cold Temperate Northwest Atlantic |
The Gulf of Maine is a large gulf of the Atlantic Ocean on the northeastern coast of North America.
It is delineated by Cape Cod at the eastern tip of Massachusetts in the southwest and Cape Sable at the southern tip of Nova Scotia in the northeast....
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| x Northern Gulf of Mexico | Warm Temperate Northwest Atlantic | ||||
| x Carolinian | Warm Temperate Northwest Atlantic | ||||
| x Black Sea |
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Black Sea | 43.5 | 34.5 |
The Black Sea is an inland sea bounded by Europe, Anatolia and the Caucasus and is ultimately connected to the Atlantic Ocean via the Mediterranean and Aegean Seas and various straits. The Bosporus strait connects it to the Sea of Marmara, and the...
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| x Sea of Okhotsk |
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54.2686 | 148.5572 |
The Sea of Okhotsk (Russian: Охо́тское мо́ре; English Transliteration: Okhotskoye More) is a part of the western Pacific Ocean, lying between the Kamchatka Peninsula on the east, the Kuril Islands on the southeast, the island of Hokkaidō to the far...
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| x Kamchatka Shelf and Coast | Cold Temperate Northwest Pacific | ||||
| x Oyashio Current |
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Cold Temperate Northwest Pacific |
The Oyashio Current (also named 'Oya Siwo', the Kurile current, Japanese 親潮) is a cold subarctic ocean current that flows south and circulates counterclockwise in the western North Pacific Ocean. It collides with the Kuroshio Current off the eastern...
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| x Northeastern Honshu | Cold Temperate Northwest Pacific | ||||
| x Sea of Japan |
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Cold Temperate Northwest Pacific | 39.5819 | 134.5697 |
The Sea of Japan is a marginal sea of the western Pacific Ocean, bordered by Japan, South Korea, North Korea and Russia. It is referred to in North Korea as the Korea East Sea and in South Korea as the East Sea. Like the Mediterranean Sea, it has...
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| x Yellow Sea |
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Cold Temperate Northwest Pacific |
The Yellow Sea is the name given to the northern part of the East China Sea, which is a marginal sea of the Pacific Ocean. It is located between mainland China and the Korean peninsula. Its name comes from the sand particles from Gobi Desert sand...
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| x Central Kuroshio Current | Warm Temperate Northwest Pacific | ||||
| x East China Sea |
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Warm Temperate Northwest Pacific |
The East China Sea is a marginal sea east of China. It is a part of the Pacific Ocean and covers an area of 1,249,000 km². In China, the sea is called the East Sea.
In South Korea, the sea is sometimes called South Sea, but this is more often used...
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| x Aleutian Islands |
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Cold Temperate Northeast Pacific |
The Aleutian Islands (possibly from Chukchi aliat, "island") are a chain of more than 300 small volcanic islands forming part of the Aleutian Arc in the Northern Pacific Ocean, occupying an area of 6,821 sq mi (17,666 km²) and extending about 1,200...
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| x Gulf of Alaska |
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Cold Temperate Northeast Pacific |
The Gulf of Alaska is an arm of the Pacific Ocean defined by the curve of the southern coast of Alaska, stretching from the Alaska Peninsula and Kodiak Island in the west to the Alexander Archipelago in the east, where Glacier Bay and the Inside...
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| x North American Pacific Fijordland | Cold Temperate Northeast Pacific | ||||
| x Puget Trough / Georgia Basin | Cold Temperate Northeast Pacific | ||||
| x Oregon |
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Cold Temperate Northeast Pacific | 44.51061 | -121.43133 |
Oregon (pronounced /ˈɒrɨɡən/ ( listen) ORR-i-gən) is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is located on the Pacific coast, with Washington to the north, California to the south, Nevada on the southeast and Idaho to the...
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| x Washington |
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Cold Temperate Northeast Pacific | 47.5 | -120.5 |
Washington (pronounced /ˈwɒʃɪŋtən/ ( listen)) is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. Washington was carved out of the western part of Washington Territory which had been ceded by Britain in 1846 by the Oregon Treaty as...
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| x Northern California |
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Cold Temperate Northeast Pacific | 38.28131 | -120.90454 |
Northern California is the northern portion of the U.S. state of California. The region contains the San Francisco Bay Area, San Jose (the third-largest city in California), Sacramento (the state capital), as well as the redwood forests, the...
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| x Southern California Bight | Warm Temperate Northeast Pacific |
The Southern California Bight includes coastal southern California, the Channel Islands and part of the Pacific Ocean.
Within the Southern California bight lie the traditional territories of the Chumash and the Gabrieliño. These two cultures are...
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