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Second Thomas Shoal, also known as Ayungin Shoal (Filipino: Buhanginan ng Ayungin, lit. 'sandbank of silver perch'), Bãi Cỏ Mây ( Vietnamese ) and Rén'ài Jiāo ( Chinese : 仁爱礁/仁愛礁 ), [ 1 ] is a submerged reef in the Spratly Islands of the South China Sea , 105 nautical miles (194 km; 121 mi) west of Palawan , Philippines . [ 2 ]
Tasman Sea – 2.3 million km 2 (0.89 million sq mi) Bay of Bengal – 2.172 million km 2 (0.839 million sq mi) Bering Sea – 2 million km 2 (0.77 million sq mi) Sea of Okhotsk – 1.583 million km 2 (0.611 million sq mi) Gulf of Mexico – 1.550 million km 2 (0.598 million sq mi)
The Caspian Sea is the world's largest inland body of water, often described as the world's largest lake and sometimes referred to as a full-fledged sea. [2] [3] [4] An endorheic basin, it lies between Europe and Asia: east of the Caucasus, west of the broad steppe of Central Asia, south of the fertile plains of Southern Russia in Eastern Europe, and north of the mountainous Iranian Plateau.
Map of North America with the Western Interior Seaway during the Campanian. The Western Interior Seaway (also called the Cretaceous Seaway, the Niobraran Sea, the North American Inland Sea, and the Western Interior Sea) was a large inland sea that split the continent of North America into two landmasses for 34 million years.
The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about 85,133,000 km 2 (32,870,000 sq mi). [ 2] It covers approximately 17% of Earth's surface and about 24% of its water surface area. During the Age of Discovery, it was known for separating the New World of the Americas ( North America and South ...
Island chain strategy. The island chain strategy is a strategic maritime containment plan first conceived by American foreign policy statesman John Foster Dulles in 1951, during the Korean War. [ 1] It proposed surrounding the Soviet Union and China with naval bases in the West Pacific to project power and restrict sea access.
The Southern Ocean, also known as the Antarctic Ocean, [1] [note 4] comprises the southernmost waters of the world ocean, generally taken to be south of 60° S latitude and encircling Antarctica. [5] With a size of 20,327,000 km 2 (7,848,000 sq mi), it is the second-smallest of the five principal oceanic divisions, smaller than the Pacific ...
CAIRO/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Yemen's Houthi militants are believed to have sunk a second ship, the Tutor, in the Red Sea, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) said on Tuesday. The ...