· An ocean
is a body of saline water that composes much of a planet's hydrosphere.
· On Earth, an ocean is
one of the major conventional divisions of the World
Ocean, which covers almost 71% of its surface.
· These are,
in descending order by area, the Pacific, Atlantic,
Indian, Southern,
and Arctic Oceans.
· The
word sea is
often used interchangeably with "ocean" in American
English but, strictly speaking, a sea is a body of saline water
(generally a division of the world ocean) partly or fully enclosed by land.
Ocean
|
Location
|
Area(km2)
|
Avg. Depth
(m)
|
Deepest
Point
|
Pacific Ocean
|
Separates Asia and Oceania from the Americas
|
168,723,000
(46.6%) |
3,970
|
Mariana Trenc
(36,070 ft)
|
Indian Ocean
|
Washes upon southern Asia and separates Africa and Australia
|
70,560,000
(19.5%) |
3,741
|
Sunda Trench or Java Trench
(25,344 ft)
|
Atlantic Ocean
|
Separates the Americas from Eurasia and
Africa
|
85,133,000
(23.5%) |
3,646
|
Puerto Rico Trench
(28,232 ft)
|
Southern Ocean
|
Sometimes considered an extension of the Pacific,
Atlantic and Indian Oceans, which encircles Antarctica
|
21,960,000
(6.1%) |
3,270
|
South Sandwich Trench
(23,740 ft)
|
Arctic Ocean
|
Sometimes
considered a sea or
estuary of
the Atlantic, which covers much of the Arctic and
washes upon northern North
America and Eurasia
|
15,558,000
(4.3%) |
1,205
|
Litke Deep in the Eurasian Basin (17,880 ft)
|
*The Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench is the deepest
known point in Earth's oceans. In 2010 the United States Center for Coastal
& Ocean Mapping measured the depth of the Challenger Deep at 10,994 meters (36,070
feet) below sea level with an estimated vertical accuracy of ± 40 meters.
Major Seas Around The World
|
·
A sea is a large body of salt water that
is surrounded in whole or in part by land.
·
More broadly, "the sea" is
the interconnected system of Earth's salty, oceanic waters, considered as one global
ocean or as several principal oceanic divisions.
·
The sea moderates Earth's climate
and has important roles in the water cycle, carbon cycle,
and nitrogen
cycle
Atlantic
Ocean
|
Arctic
Ocean
|
Southern
Ocean
|
Indian
Ocean
|
Pacific
Ocean
|
Landlocked
Seas
|
Baltic Sea.
· Archipelago Sea
· Bothnian Sea
· Central Baltic Sea
· Gulf of Bothnia
· Gulf of Finland
· Gulf of Riga
· Oresund Strait
· Sea of Åland
Mediterranean Sea.
· Aegean Sea
· Myrtoan Sea
· Sea of Crete
· Thracian Sea
· Adriatic Sea
· Alboran Sea
· Balearic Sea
· Catalan Sea
· Cilician Sea
· Gulf of Sidra
· Ionian Sea
· Levantine Sea
· Libyan Sea
· Ligurian Sea
· Sea of Sardinia
· Sea of Sicily
· Tyrrhenian Sea
Others
· Argentine Sea
· Bay of Biscay
· Bay of Campeche
· Bay of Fundy
· Black
Sea
· Caribbean Sea
· Celtic Sea
· Chesapeake Bay
· Davis Strait
· Denmark Strait
· English Channel
· Gulf of Guinea
· Gulf of Maine
· Gulf of Mexico
· Gulf of St. Lawrence
· Gulf of Venezuela
· Irish
Sea
· Labrador Sea
· Marmara Sea
· North
Sea
· Norwegian Sea
· Sargasso Sea
· Sea of Azov
· Sea of the Hebrides
· Wadden Sea
|
· Amundsen Gulf
· Baffin Bay
· Barents Sea
· Beaufort Sea
· Chukchi Sea
· East Siberian Sea
· Greenland Sea
· Hudson Bay
· James
Bay
· Kara
Sea
· Kara Strait
· Laptev Sea
· Lincoln Sea
· Prince Gustav Adolf Sea
· Pechora Sea
· Wandel Sea
· White
Sea
|
· Amundsen Sea
· Bass Strait
· Bellingshausen Sea
· Cooperation Sea
· Cosmonauts Sea
· Davis
Sea
· D'Urville Sea
· Drake Passage
· Great Australian Bight
· Gulf St Vincent
· King Haakon VII Sea
· Lazarev Sea
· Mawson Sea
· Riiser-Larsen Sea
· Ross
Sea
· Scotia Sea
· Somov
Sea
· Spencer Gulf
· Weddell Sea
|
· Andaman Sea
· Arabian Sea
· Bay of Bengal
· Gulf of Aden
· Gulf of Oman
· Laccadive Sea
· Mozambique Channel
· Persian Gulf
· Red
Sea
· Timor
Sea
|
· Arafura Sea
· Bali
Sea
· Banda
Sea
· Bering Sea
· Bismarck Sea
· Bohai
Sea
· Bohol
Sea(also known as
the Mindanao Sea)
· Camotes Sea
· Celebes Sea
· Ceram
Sea
· Chilean Sea
· Sea of Chiloé
· Coral
Sea
· East China Sea
· Flores Sea
· Gulf of Alaska
· Gulf of California(also known as the Sea of Cortés)
· Gulf of Carpentaria
· Gulf of Thailand
· Halmahera Sea
· Java
Sea
· Koro
Sea
· Mar de Grau
· Molucca Sea
· Philippine Sea
· Salish Sea
· Savu
Sea
· Sea of Japan
· Sea of Okhotsk
· Seto Inland Sea
· Sibuyan Sea
· Solomon Sea
· South China Sea
· Sulu
Sea
· Tasman Sea
· Visayan Sea
· Yellow Sea
|
· Aral
Sea
· Caspian Sea
· Dead
Sea
· Salton Sea
|
