This is a list of seas of the World Ocean , including marginal seas, areas of water, various gulfs , bights , bays , and straits . In many cases it is a matter of tradition for a body of water to be named a sea or a bay, etc., therefore all these types are listed here.
6-575: The Lazarev Sea (Russian: Море Лазарева , More Lazareva ) is a proposed name for a marginal sea of the Southern Ocean . It would be bordered by two proposals from a 2002 International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) draft, a King Haakon VII Sea to the west and a Riiser-Larsen Sea to the east, or between the Prime Meridian of 0° and 14°E. It would stretch over an area of 929,000 km (359,000 sq mi). The Lazarev Sea
12-621: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about a specific oceanic location or ocean current is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Marginal sea There are several terms used for bulges of ocean that result from indentations of land, which overlap in definition, and which are not consistently differentiated: Many features could be considered to be more than one of these, and all of these terms are used in place names inconsistently; especially bays, gulfs, and bights, which can be very large or very small. This list includes large areas of water no matter
18-581: The name, including the 2014 10th edition World Atlas from National Geographic Society and the 2014 12th edition of the Times Atlas of the World . But Soviet and Russian-state maps do. The prevailing depth of waters in the Lazarev Sea is 3,000 m (9,800 ft), and the maximum depth exceeds 4,500 m (14,800 ft). It stretches over an area of 929,000 km (359,000 sq mi). To
24-404: The south of the Lazarev Sea lies Princess Astrid Coast of Queen Maud Land . The Lazarev Sea is a continental margin affected by multiple rifting episodes accompanied with transient volcanism. The Lazarev sea is also known to be very poor in sediment . 68°00′S 7°00′E / 68.000°S 7.000°E / -68.000; 7.000 This Queen Maud Land location article
30-470: The term used in the name. The largest terrestrial seas, in decreasing order of area, are: Seas may be considered marginal between ocean and land, or between oceans in which case they may be treated as marginal parts of either. There is no single ultimate authority on the matter. (clockwise from 180°) In addition to the marginal seas listed in the three subsections below, the Arctic Ocean itself
36-612: Was named in 1962 by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in memory of Russian admiral Mikhail Lazarev (1788–1851), who discovered the Antarctic mainland with Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen in 1820. The 2002 IHO draft was never approved by the IHO (or any other organization), and the 1953 IHO document (which does not contain this name) remains currently in force. Leading geographic authorities and atlases do not use
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