Most of the planet Earth is covered by water. Did you know that beneath the Atlantic Ocean there are mountain ranges greater than anything on the continents?
Early explorers drove flags into the ground to claim territories. But no one bothered to float a flag in the oceans. For the most part, we peaceably shared the oceans until we realized what valuable goods could be found in their dark and murky depths. See more »
The Dead Sea is host to tourists who visit in droves to soak in its mineral-rich waters. Is the saltiest body of water in the world about to dry up?
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Early explorers drove flags into the ground to claim territories. But no one bothered to float a flag in the oceans. For the most part, we peaceably shared the oceans until we realized what valuable goods could be found in their dark and murky depths.
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Atlantic Ocean, the world's second largest body of water. Its area, including all connecting seas and gulfs, is about 33,420,000 square miles (86,557,000 km2), almost 24 per cent of the world's oceanic area.
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Ocean, the continuous body of saltwater that covers about 70 per cent of the earth's surface.
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Pacific Ocean, the world's largest body of water. It lies between North and South America on the east, Asia and Australia on the west, and Antarctica on the south.
See more »Bermuda Triangle, or Devil's Triangle, a roughly triangular area of the Atlantic Ocean (extending from Bermuda to Florida and Puerto Rico) believed by some people to be subject to the influence of supernatural forces.
See more »El Niño, an ocean phenomenon of the Pacific Ocean. El Niño occurs when the southeast trade winds slacken or cease, preventing cool, nutrient-rich water within the Peru Current from moving up from moderate depths to replace warm surface water .) With the absence of the nutrient-rich water, plankton, a major source of food for fish, dies off, resulting in a major disruption of the ecosystem.
See more »Aden, Gulf of, a western arm of the Arabian Sea between Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.
See more »Sargasso Sea, a part of the Atlantic Ocean. It lies mainly east and south of Bermuda and occupies some 2,000,000 square miles (5,180,000 km2).
See more »Adriatic Sea, an arm of the Mediterranean Sea. The name comes from the city of Adria in northeast Italy.
See more »Aegean Sea, an arm of the Mediterranean Sea. It lies between Greece on the west and the north and Turkey on the east.
See more »Agulhas Current, a warm surface current of the Indian Ocean. It is a branch of the South Equatorial Current.
See more »Andaman Sea, an arm of the Indian Ocean. It is bordered by upper Burma on the north, the Malay Peninsula on the east, Sumatra on the south, and Andaman and Nicobar Islands on the west.
See more »Arabian Sea, a broad arm of the Indian Ocean. It lies between the Indian and Arabian peninsulas.
See more »Aral Sea, a lake in Central Asia. It lies just north of the Kyzyl Kum desert and is shared by Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.
See more »Baltic Sea, a large inland sea of northern Europe. Its area is about 163,000 square miles (422,000 km2); length, slightly more than 1,000 miles (1,600 km); maximum width, about 200 miles (320 km).
See more »Barents Sea, an arm of the Arctic Ocean. It lies between the northern shores of Norway and European Russia and the islands of Svalbard, Franz Josef Land, and Novaya Zemlya.
See more »Bering Sea, an arm of the Pacific Ocean between Alaska and Siberia, north of the Aleutian and Komandorskiye islands.
See more »Black Sea, an inland body of water between Asia Minor and Europe, bordered by Ukraine, Russia, Georgia, Turkey, Bulgaria, and Romania.
See more »Caribbean Sea, an arm of the Atlantic Ocean. It is enclosed by Central and South America, the West Indies, and Mexico.
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