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.
6-952: The Malin Sea is a marginal sea of the North-East Atlantic over the Malin Shelf , the continental shelf north of Ireland and southwest of Scotland . It is connected to the Irish Sea by the North Channel , and overlaps the Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland . Of the UK Shipping Forecast areas, the Malin Sea covers most of Malin, and by some definitions extends into Rockall. The area
12-683: Is within the exclusive economic zones of Ireland and the United Kingdom . Different authorities give different limits for the Malin Sea. The 2002 draft of the International Hydrographic Organization 's Limits of Seas publication lists "Malin Sea" as a synonym of Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland . Hardisty defines it separately from the Minches and Sea of the Hebrides , which are parts of
18-741: The Mull of Kintyre to Cape Wrath incorporating the sea area between the Scottish mainland and the Western Isles". The name "Malin Sea" comes from Malin Head , the northernmost part of the Inishowen peninsula in northwest Ireland. The name was used in scientific publications from the 1970s, and was agreed in 1998 by the signatories of the OSPAR Convention on environmental protection in
24-778: The Inner Seas; Dormels interprets Hardisty's definition as corresponding to roughly the southern half of the Inner Seas. Banner defines it as "from the Irish Coast to lat. 56°20′N and from the Continental Shelf break to Kintyre , comprising an area of more than 14,000 km (5,000 sq mi)." Cooper et al. define the Malin Sea's southern limit as from Inishowen to Rathlin Island . The Scottish Government 's Marine Atlas divides its coastal waters into habitats, one being "Minches and Malin Sea", defined as "north from
30-1096: The North-East Atlantic. The 2001 revised text of the Bonn Agreement on pollution in "the Greater North Sea and its wider Approaches" specifies the Malin Sea among the waters north and west of the North Sea within the remit of the Agreement. 55°36′N 7°12′W / 55.6°N 7.2°W / 55.6; -7.2 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
36-470: 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
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