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Orca (Orcinus orca) hunting a Weddell seal in the Southern Ocean- In order to comply with the use and licensing terms of this image, the following text must must be included with the image when published in any medium, failure to do so constitutes a violation of the licensing terms and copyright infringement: © Tomas Castelazo, www.tomascastelazo.com / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
A sea anemone in the Pacific Ocean, Baja California, Mexico 
A view of the South China Sea, Bacuit Archipelago, municipality of El Nido, Palawan, Philippines
Satellite view of the Pacific Ocean and the main windward Hawaiian Islands
Caesio teres in the South Pacific Ocean in Fiji
Clouds over the Southern Ocean, with continent labels
A view of Myrtos Beach and the Ionian Sea, Cephalonia, Ionian Islands, Greece
A surfer in the Pacific Ocean at the 2010 Mavericks competition, village of Princeton-by-the-Sea, northern California- (c) wanderingchina, CC BY-SA 3.0
A view of the Southern Ocean from Great Ocean Road, Port Campbell, Princetown, Victoria, Australia 
A view of Filfla and the Mediterranean Sea. Filfla is a small, mostly barren, uninhabited islet 4.5 kilometres (2.8 miles) south of Malta.
A mother sperm whale and her calf in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Mauritius
A panorama of Zanzibar, Tanzania, particularly the Stone Town, taken from the Indian Ocean
Icebergs broken off from glaciers in northern Baffin Bay, Cape York, Greenland
Introduction
The ocean (also the sea or the world ocean) is the body of salt water that covers approximately 70.8% of the surface of Earth and contains 97% of Earth's water. Another definition is "any of the large bodies of water into which the great ocean is divided". Separate names are used to identify five different areas of the ocean: Pacific (the largest), Atlantic, Indian, Southern (Antarctic), and Arctic (the smallest). Seawater covers approximately 361,000,000 km2 (139,000,000 sq mi) of the planet. The ocean is the principal component of Earth's hydrosphere, and therefore integral to life on Earth. Acting as a huge heat reservoir, the ocean influences climate and weather patterns, the carbon cycle, and the water cycle. (Full article...)
The sea, connected as the world ocean or simply the ocean, is the body of salty water that covers approximately 71 percent of the Earth's surface. The word sea is also used to denote second-order sections of the sea, such as the Mediterranean Sea, as well as certain large, entirely landlocked, saltwater lakes, such as the Caspian Sea. (Full article...)
Oceanography (from the Ancient Greek ὠκεανός "ocean" and γράφω "write"), also known as oceanology, is the scientific study of the oceans. It is an important Earth science, which covers a wide range of topics, including ecosystem dynamics; ocean currents, waves, and geophysical fluid dynamics; plate tectonics and the geology of the sea floor; and fluxes of various chemical substances and physical properties within the ocean and across its boundaries. These diverse topics reflect multiple disciplines that oceanographers utilize to glean further knowledge of the world ocean, including astronomy, biology, chemistry, climatology, geography, geology, hydrology, meteorology and physics. Paleoceanography studies the history of the oceans in the geologic past. An oceanographer is a person who studies many matters concerned with oceans including marine geology, physics, chemistry and biology. (Full article...)
Selected article -
The South China Sea is a marginal sea of the Western Pacific Ocean. It is bounded in the north by the shores of South China (hence the name), in the west by the Indochinese Peninsula, in the east by the islands of Taiwan and northwestern Philippines (mainly Luzon, Mindoro and Palawan), and in the south by Borneo, eastern Sumatra and the Bangka Belitung Islands, encompassing an area of around 3,500,000 km2 (1,400,000 sq mi). It communicates with the East China Sea via the Taiwan Strait, the Philippine Sea via the Luzon Strait, the Sulu Sea via the straits around Palawan (e.g. the Mindoro and Balabac Strait), the Strait of Malacca via the Strait of Singapore, and the Java Sea via the Karimata and Bangka Strait. The Gulf of Thailand and the Gulf of Tonkin are also part of the South China Sea. The shallow waters south of the Riau Islands are also known as the Natuna Sea.
The South China Sea is a region of tremendous economic and geostrategic importance. One-third of the world's maritime shipping passes through it, carrying over US$3 trillion in trade each year. Huge oil and natural gas reserves are believed to lie beneath its seabed. It also contains lucrative fisheries, which are crucial for the food security of millions in Southeast Asia. (Full article...)Interesting facts -
- When Norman Heathcote climbed the St Kilda sea stack Stac Lee (pictured) in 1899, he found the climbing "comparatively easy" but getting ashore had been "a most appalling undertaking".
- The The Marine Mammal Center has rescued over 23,000 marine mammals, and also produces important scientific discoveries regarding marine chemistry.
- Pastis magnate Paul Ricard created the Paul Ricard Oceanographic Institute on the Île des Embiez, and the Universal Exposition of Wines and Spirits on the Île de Bendor.
Selected list articles and Marine habitat topics
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- List of oceans
- List of ancient oceans
- List of seas
- List of circumnavigations
- List of cruise lines
- List of largest lakes and seas in the Solar System
- List of marine biologists
- List of marine ecoregions
- List of maritime explorers
- List of naval battles
- List of ocean liners
- List of oceanographic institutions and programs
- List of oldest surviving ships
- List of rogue waves
- List of seafood dishes
- List of submarine topographical features
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The Austronesian maritime trade network was the first trade routes in the Indian Ocean. (from Indian Ocean)
Minke whale (from Arctic Ocean)
During summer, warm continental masses draw moist air from the Indian Ocean hence producing heavy rainfall. The process is reversed during winter, resulting in dry conditions. (from Indian Ocean)
Map of the Pacific Ocean during European Exploration, circa 1702–1707 (from Pacific Ocean)
The Antarctic Ocean, as delineated by the draft 4th edition of the International Hydrographic Organization's Limits of Oceans and Seas (2002) (from Southern Ocean)
The Arctic Ocean, with borders as delineated by the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO), including Hudson Bay (some of which is south of 57°N latitude, off the map). (from Arctic Ocean)
Distribution of the major water mass in the Arctic Ocean. The section sketches the different water masses along a vertical section from Bering Strait over the geographic North Pole to Fram Strait. As the stratification is stable, deeper water masses are denser than the layers above. (from Arctic Ocean)
Prime Minister Suga declined to drink the bottle of Fukushima's treated radioactive water that he was holding, which would otherwise be discharged to the Pacific. 2020. (from Pacific Ocean)
Sargassum fish (Histrio histrio) (from Atlantic Ocean)
Thule archaeological site (from Arctic Ocean)
Regions, island nations and territories of Oceania (from Pacific Ocean)
A female warty squid (Moroteuthis ingens) (from Southern Ocean)
1564 Typus Orbis Terrarum, a map by Abraham Ortelius showed the imagined link between the proposed continent of Antarctica and South America. (from Southern Ocean)
Sunset in Monterey County, California, U.S. (from Pacific Ocean)
Agulhas Bank (from Atlantic Ocean)
An iceberg being pushed out of a shipping lane by (L to R) USS Burton Island, USS Atka, and USS Glacier near McMurdo Station, Antarctica, 1965 (from Southern Ocean)
Universalis Cosmographia, the Waldseemüller map dated 1507, from a time when the nature of the Americas was ambiguous, particularly North America, as a possible part of Asia, was the first map to show the Americas separating two distinct oceans. South America was generally considered a "new world" and shows the name "America" for the first time, after Amerigo Vespucci (from Pacific Ocean)
Malé's population has increased from 20,000 people in 1987 to more than 220,000 people in 2020. (from Indian Ocean)
Area inside the black line indicates the area constituting the Pacific Ocean prior to 2002; darker blue areas are its informal current borders following the recreation of the Southern Ocean and the reinclusion of marginal seas (from Southern Ocean)
Aldabra giant tortoise from the islands of the Aldabra Atoll in the Seychelles (from Indian Ocean)
False color map of ocean depth in the Atlantic basin (from Atlantic Ocean)
The Kennedy Channel. (from Arctic Ocean)
Decrease of old Arctic Sea ice 1982–2007 (from Arctic Ocean)
A bathymetric/topographic map of the Arctic Ocean and the surrounding lands. (from Arctic Ocean)
Marine debris on a Hawaiian coast (from Pacific Ocean)
Based on the medieval Íslendingasögur sagas, including the Grœnlendinga saga, this interpretative map of the "Norse World" shows that Norse knowledge of the Americas and the Atlantic remained limited. (from Atlantic Ocean)
Banks of the North-West Atlantic (from Atlantic Ocean)
The Arctic region showing the Northeast Passage, the Northern Sea Route within it, and the Northwest Passage. (from Arctic Ocean)
The island geography of the Pacific Ocean Basin (from Pacific Ocean)
Pacific Ocean currents have created 3 "islands" of debris. (from Pacific Ocean)
Tarawa Atoll in the Republic of Kiribati (from Pacific Ocean)
Impact of El Niño and La Niña on North America (from Pacific Ocean)
Upwelling in the Southern Ocean(from Southern Ocean)
Famous official portrait of Captain James Cook who proved that waters encompassed the southern latitudes of the globe. "He holds his own chart of the Southern Ocean on the table and his right hand points to the east coast of Australia on it." (from Southern Ocean)
Seas that are parts of the Southern Ocean (from Southern Ocean)
Abel Aubert du Petit-Thouars taking over Tahiti on 9 September 1842 (from Pacific Ocean)
Map of the Pacific Ocean during European Exploration, circa 1754. (from Pacific Ocean)
Map showing the migration of the Austronesian peoples, the first seaborne human migration in history (c.3000-1500 BCE) (from Pacific Ocean)
"Terres Australes" (sic) label without any charted landmass (from Southern Ocean)
Excavation of the Ertebølle middens in 1880 (from Atlantic Ocean)
Ulawun stratovolcano situated on the island of New Britain, Papua New Guinea (from Pacific Ocean)
Location of the Southern Ocean gyres. (from Southern Ocean)
Walruses on Arctic ice floe (from Arctic Ocean)
Major ocean trade routes in the world includes the northern Indian Ocean. (from Indian Ocean)
James Weddell's second expedition in 1823, depicting the brig Jane and the cutter Beaufroy (from Southern Ocean)
- (c) Randy C. Bunney, Great Circle Photography. Photo credit required for reproduction., CC BY-SA 2.5
Severe cracks in an ice pier in use for four seasons at McMurdo Station slowed cargo operations in 1983 and proved a safety hazard. (from Southern Ocean)
Model of a Fijian drua, an example of an Austronesian vessel with a double-canoe (catamaran) hull and a crab claw sail (from Pacific Ocean)
The bathyscaphe Trieste, before her record dive to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, 23 January 1960 (from Pacific Ocean)
Orca (Orcinus orca) hunting a Weddell seal in the Southern Ocean (from Southern Ocean)
Air pollution in South Asia spread over the Bay of Bengal and beyond. (from Indian Ocean)
Made in 1529, the Diogo Ribeiro map was the first to show the Pacific at about its proper size (from Pacific Ocean)
MS Explorer in Antarctica in January 1999. She sank on 23 November 2007 after hitting an iceberg. (from Southern Ocean)
Density structure of the upper 1,200 m (3,900 ft) in the Arctic Ocean. Profiles of temperature and salinity for the Amundsen Basin, the Canadian Basin and the Greenland Sea are sketched. (from Arctic Ocean)
Manganese nodule (from Southern Ocean)
A copepod (from Arctic Ocean)
According to the Coastal hypothesis, modern humans spread from Africa along the northern rim of the Indian Ocean. (from Indian Ocean)
Sunset over the Pacific Ocean as seen from the International Space Station. tops of thunderclouds are also visible. (from Pacific Ocean)
1911 South Polar Regions exploration map (from Southern Ocean)
Typhoon Tip at global peak intensity on 12 October 1979 (from Pacific Ocean)
Emanuel Bowen's 1780s map of the Arctic features a "Northern Ocean". (from Arctic Ocean)
Extent of the Indian Ocean according to International Hydrographic Organization
Fish of the Notothenioidei suborder, such as this young icefish, are mostly restricted to the Antarctic and Subantarctic (from Southern Ocean)
Tropical wet and dry climate in San Andrés Island Caribbean, Colombia (from Atlantic Ocean)
Admiral von Bellingshausen (from Southern Ocean)
Mount Saint Helens in 2020 (from Pacific Ocean)
The Indian Ocean, according to the CIA The World Factbook (blue area), and as defined by the IHO (black outline - excluding marginal waterbodies). (from Indian Ocean)
- (c) Australian Customs and Border Protection Service, CC BY-SA 3.0 au
An adult and sub-adult Minke whale are dragged aboard the Japanese whaling vessel Nisshin Maru (from Southern Ocean)
Continents and islands of the Southern Ocean (from Southern Ocean)
Map showing a large number of Spanish expeditions across the Pacific Ocean from the 16th to 18th centuries including the Manila galleon route between Acapulco and Manila, the first transpacific trade route in history. (from Pacific Ocean)
The Arctic region; of note, the region's southerly border on this map is depicted by a red isotherm, with all territory to the north having an average temperature of less than 10 °C (50 °F) in July. (from Arctic Ocean)
The International Hydrographic Organization's delineation of the "Southern Ocean" has moved steadily southwards since the original 1928 edition of its Limits of Oceans and Seas. (from Southern Ocean)
Madagascar's Elephant bird, Mauritius's Dodo bird and ostrich (from left to right) (from Indian Ocean)
1937 delineation (from Southern Ocean)
USS Vincennes at Disappointment Bay, Antarctica in early 1840. (from Southern Ocean)
1928 delineation (from Southern Ocean)
In the subpolar gyre of the North Atlantic warm subtropical waters are transformed into colder subpolar and polar waters. In the Labrador Sea this water flows back to the subtropical gyre. (from Atlantic Ocean)
Sea cover in the Arctic Ocean, showing the median, 2005 and 2007 coverage (from Arctic Ocean)
A wandering albatross (Diomedea exulans) on South Georgia (from Southern Ocean)
Iceberg A22A in the South Atlantic Ocean (from Atlantic Ocean)
- (c) goldpicasa, CC BY 3.0
Coral reefs of the Maldives (from Indian Ocean)
An unnamed Chagossian on Diego Garcia in 1971 shortly before the British expelled the islanders when the island became a U.S. military base. The man spoke a French-based creole language and his ancestors were most likely brought to the uninhabited island as slaves in the 19th century. (from Indian Ocean)
Mombasa Port on Kenya's Indian Ocean coast (from Indian Ocean)
As the Gulf Stream meanders across the North Atlantic from the North American east coast to Western Europe its temperature drops by 20 °C (36 °F).
Waves in the trade winds in the Atlantic Ocean—areas of converging winds that move along the same track as the prevailing wind—create instabilities in the atmosphere that may lead to the formation of hurricanes.
Regional Working Group zones for SOOS (from Southern Ocean)
Path of the thermohaline circulation. Purple paths represent deep-water currents, while blue paths represent surface currents.
Capture of Atlantic north-west cod in million tons (from Atlantic Ocean)
"Southern Ocean" as alternative to the Aethiopian Ocean, 18th century (from Southern Ocean)
A general delineation of the Antarctic Convergence, sometimes used by scientists as the demarcation of the Southern Ocean (from Southern Ocean)
Bahama Banks (from Atlantic Ocean)
A map of Australia's official interpretation of the names and limits of oceans and seas around Australia (from Southern Ocean)
- Photo © Samuel Blanc, CC BY-SA 3.0
Weddell seals (Leptonychotes weddellii) are the most southerly of Antarctic mammals. (from Southern Ocean)
Ring of Fire. The Pacific is ringed by many volcanoes and oceanic trenches. (from Pacific Ocean)
Embarked and disembarked slaves in the Atlantic slave trade 1525–1863 (first and last slave voyages) (from Atlantic Ocean)
Marine debris strewn over the beaches of the South Atlantic Inaccessible Island (from Atlantic Ocean)
For most of the 16th century, the Portuguese dominated the Indian Ocean trade. (from Indian Ocean)
The Aethiopian Ocean in a 1710 French map of Africa (from Atlantic Ocean)
Portrait of Edmund Halley by Godfrey Kneller (before 1721) (from Southern Ocean)
Maris Pacifici by Ortelius (1589). One of the first printed maps to show the Pacific Ocean (from Pacific Ocean)
Banks of the North-East Atlantic (from Atlantic Ocean)
The Atlantic Gyres influenced the Portuguese discoveries and trading port routes, here shown in the India Run ("Carreira da Índia"), which would be developed in subsequent years. (from Atlantic Ocean)
The Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) is the strongest current system in the world oceans, linking the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific basins. (from Southern Ocean)
Greco-Roman trade with ancient India according to the Periplus Maris Erythraei 1st century CE (from Indian Ocean)
Frank Hurley, As time wore on it became more and more evident that the ship was doomed (Endurance trapped in pack ice), National Library of Australia. (from Southern Ocean)
Cod fishery in Norway (from Atlantic Ocean)
The economically important Silk Road was blocked from Europe by the Ottoman Empire in c. 1453 with the fall of the Byzantine Empire. This spurred exploration, and a new sea route around Africa was found, triggering the Age of Discovery. (from Indian Ocean)
Approximate extent of the Sargasso Sea (from Atlantic Ocean)
Three polar bears approach USS Honolulu near the North Pole. (from Arctic Ocean)
Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) are a keystone species of the food web. (from Southern Ocean)
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Author/Creator: Fred the Oyster, Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0
Water mass bodies of the Southern Ocean.
Official portrait of Captain James Cook
(c) Randy C. Bunney, Great Circle Photography. Photo credit required for reproduction., CC BY-SA 2.5
Date: 1983
Location: en:McMurdo Station, Antarctica
Photographer: Randy C. Bunney
USNS Southern Cross cargo operations at ice pier. McMurdo Station, Antarctica; 1983. The en:ice pier had been in use four seasons. Workers made the ice pier by repeatedly flooding an area with water which quickly turned to ice. However, by the time of 1983 cargo operations, the pier was rapidly deteriorating. Severe cracks appeared in the surface even as tidewaters further undercut the pier's edge causing large chunks of ice to break off.
References
"Race to reach McMurdo Station," The Press, March 23, 1983; Christchurch, New Zealand.
An unnamed Diego Garcian at the time of the US encampment, 1971. Location: Chagos, Diego Garcia Island (Image ID: geod0341, Geodesy Collection)
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Sea Storm in Pacifica, w:California
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Aegopodium podagraria
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Walden Pond, Massachusetts on June 27, 2012. This is a square crop of
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The skull and crossbones sign is a well-known symbol for poison.
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Horseshoe Bend, Page, Arizona
Before the year 2004, only two tropical cyclones had ever been noted in the South Atlantic Basin, and no hurricane. However, a circulation center well off the coast of southern Brazil developed tropical cyclone characteristics and continued to intensify as it moved westward. The system developed an eye and apparently reached hurricane strength on Friday, March 26, before eventually making landfall late on Saturday, March 27, 2004.
The crew of the International Space Station was notified of the cyclone and acquired excellent photographs of the storm just as it made landfall on the southern Brazilian state of Santa Catarina (the storm has been unofficially dubbed “Cyclone Catarina”). Note the clockwise circulation of Southern Hemisphere cyclones, the well-defined banding features, and the eyewall of at least a Category 1 system. The coastline is visible under the clouds in the upper left corner of the image.
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Cumulus clouds in fair weather. Photograph taken by Michael Jastremski.
"The Blue Marble" is a famous photograph of the Earth taken on December 7, 1972, by the crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft en route to the Moon at a distance of about 29,000 kilometres (18,000 mi). It shows Africa, Antarctica, and the Arabian Peninsula.
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Orthographic map of Africa with colonial borders, except Somalia.
Coastal and oceanic landforms. Cuspate foreland, tombolo, spit, bay, lagoon, barrier island.
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Dois Irmãos - Fernando de Noronha, Brazil.
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Time series for the collapse of the Atlantic northwest cod stock, capture in million tonnes with Canadian data presented separately. Based on data sourced from the FishStat database FAO.
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The medieval Icelandic conception of northern regions, based on an interpretive sketch by A.A. Bjornbo reproduced in "Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga" (ISBN 1560989955) p262.
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Wandering Albatross at South Georgia Island
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A map of Australia and its adjacent oceans, annotated with locations and notes describing the Australian Government's interpretation of the names and limits of oceans and seas around Australia
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Thule Site (Copper Inuit) near Cambridge Bay (Victoria Island)
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東京電力の福島第一原発構内を視察し、浄化処理した汚染水を手にする菅義偉首相。奥左は3号機。[1]
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Major culture areas of Oceania: Micronesia, Melanesia, and Polynesia.
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Visualisation of the Gulf Stream stretching from the Gulf of Mexico to Western Europe.
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Blue Grotto, Malta, 2010
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A mother sperm whale and her calf off the coast of Mauritius. The calf has remoras attached to its body.
Los 5 océanos de la Tierra
Three Polar bears approach the starboard bow of the Los Angeles-class fast attack submarine USS Honolulu (SSN 718) while surfaced 280 miles from the North Pole. Sighted by a lookout from the bridge (sail) of the submarine, the bears investigated the boat for almost 2 hours before leaving. Commanded by Cmdr. Charles Harris, USS Honolulu while conducting otherwise classified operations in the Arctic, collected scientific data and water samples for U.S. and Canadian Universities as part of an agreement with the Arctic Submarine Laboratory (ASL) and the National Science Foundation (NSF). USS Honolulu was the 24th Los Angeles-class submarine, and the first original design in her class to visit the North Pole region. Honolulu was assigned to Commander Submarine Pacific, Submarine Squadron Three, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
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Panorama of Gibson's Steps along the Great Ocean Road
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KENYA, Mombasa: Photograph taken by the Kenyan Ministry of East African Affairs, Commerce and Tourism (MEAACT) 31 July shows a general view of Mombasa Port on Kenya's Indian Ocean coast. MANDATORY CREDIT: MEAACT PHOTO / STUART PRICE.
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Proto-historic and historic maritime trade network of the Austronesian peoples in the Indian Ocean per "Austronesian Shipping in the Indian Ocean: From Outrigger Boats to Trading Ships" in (2016) Early Exchange between Africa and the Wider Indian Ocean World, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 51−76 ISBN: 9783319338224.
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I created this image myself using Blender. An artistic impression of a tidal power barrage. A tidal power barrage is composed of caissons (large concrete blocks), embankments and possibly a ship lock. The caissons house sluices and turbines. See Tidal power.
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Glacier and MS Explorer in Antarctica with penguins. MS Explorer sank on 23 November 2007 after hitting an iceberg in the Bransfield Strait.
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The Island Geography of the Pacific Ocean Basin.
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An adult and sub-adult Minke whale are dragged aboard the Nisshin Maru, a Japanese whaling vessel that is the world's only factory whaling ship. The wound that is visible on the calf's side was reportedly caused by an explosive-packed harpoon.
This image was taken by Australian customs agents in 2008, under a surveillance effort to collect evidence of indiscriminate harvesting, which is contrary to Japan's claim that they are collecting the whales for the purpose of scientific research. In 2010, Australia filed a lawsuit in the International Court of Justice hoping to halt Japanese whaling; this photograph will undoubtedly play a key role in that pending case.
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The Antarctica region and its boundary, the Antarctic Convergence.
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A panorama of Zanzibar, particularly the Stone Town taken from the Indian Ocean. Seen in the picture are the Sultan's palace, House of Wonders, Forodhani Gardens, and the St. Joseph's Cathedral
Arctic Ocean map with English captions showing the North Pole
Bathymetry of the Northeast Atlantic Ocean.
Ortelius World Map Typvs Orbis Terrarvm, 1570.
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Caesio teres in Fiji
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Locator map of the Southern Ocean.
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Steering_wheel_ship.svg:
- Steering_wheel_ship_1.png: Lidingo
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- derivative work: Ain92 (talk)
Nautical symbols (a steering wheel and an anchor). The image is purposed to be used as naval wikiprojects icon.
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Estimated numbers of embarked and disembarked slaves in the Atlantic slavetrade. The data is from http://www.slavevoyages.org/tast/index.faces
These estimates are about 25% higher than unadjusted numbers in the main database. Blue=Embarked. Red=Disembarked
1 1525 First slave voyage direct from Africa to the Americas
2 1560 Continuous slave trade from Brazil begins
3 1641 Sugar exports from Eastern Caribbean begin
4 1655 English capture Jamaica
5 1695 Gold discovered in Minas Gerais (Brazil)
1697 French obtain St Domingue in Treaty of Rywsick
6 1756 Seven years war begins
7 1776 American Revolutionary War begins
8 1789 Bourbon reforms open Spanish colonial ports to slaves
1791 St Domingue revolution begins
9 1808 Abolition of British and US slave trades takes effect
10 1830 Anglo-Brazilian anti-slave trade treaty
11 1850 Brazil suppresses slave trade
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CIA map of Pacific Ocean (File:Pacific Ocean - en.png) with IHO boundaries [1]
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Onykia ingens mature female (384 mm ML, 1875 g weight) from SW Chatham Rise (near New Zealand) at 44°21'S, 175°32'E (caught in bottom trawl at about 690 m depth)
A view of the Arctic. The 10 °C (50 °F) mean isotherm in July line, displayed red, is commonly used to define the border of the Arctic region.
World Distribution of Mid-Oceanic Ridges
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Exact mathematical plot of a Lorentzian wormhole (Schwarzschild wormhole).
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Author: Wells, Edward Publisher: Sheldonian Theatre Date: 1700 Location: Africa
Dimensions: 36 x 50 cm. Scale: ca. 1:25,000,000
Call Number: G8200 1700 .W45x
A very scarce, c. 1710, map of Africa by Daniel de la Feuille. Depicts the continent of Africa form an early 18th century perspective. The Niger River is mapped with surprising accuracy, especially considering its highly inaccurate mappings nearly 100 years later in the 19th century. The Mountains of the Moon, supposed source of the Nile, are located considerably south of where they appear in other maps of the period. Early Ptolemaic maps do note these mountains as well as two large lakes just to the north. Though the Mountains are present, both of these lakes are absent indicating an interesting evolution, away from the Ptolemaic conception, in African cartography. In southern Africa to large empires are named, Monoemugi and Monomotapa. This is the great southern African gold mining region and these names are likely taken from the names of prominent Congolese tribal rulers. Surrounding the map are the curious addition of twelve armorial crests. Crests include those of both Arab and African powers in the region including: Barbarie (Algier, Tunis, Tripoli, Barca ) Maroc , Egypt, Notolie, Malta, Congo, Nubia, Monomotape, and Nigreitie. Many of these kingdoms and their associated armorial crests are purely conjectural. Ethiopia for example is indicated as distinct from Abyssinia with two separate crests, both unrelated to any actual crests that the kingdom seems to have used. The allegorical title cartouche in the upper right quadrant features several Africans cooking over a fire while an Impala or Antelope looks on. This map was originally prepared for inclusion as chart no. 5 in the 1702 edition of De la Feuille's Atlas Portatif. This map is from the later, 1710 edition.
Map accompanying second edition (1937) of IHO Publication Limits of Oceans and Seas, Special Publication 23.
The legend includes the "Southern Ocean" (océan Austral).
HMS Endurance trapped in Antarctic pack ice
Marine debris accumulation locations in the North Pacific Ocean
The skull and crossbones sign is a well-known symbol for poison.
Map of the Arctic region showing shipping routes Northeast Passage, Northern Sea Route, and Northwest Passage, and bathymetry
Maris Pacifici by Abraham Ortelius. This map was published in 1589 in his Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. It was not only the first printed map of the Pacific, but it also showed the Americas for the first time.
Author/Creator: Hannes Grobe, Alfred Wegener Institute, Licence: CC BY-SA 2.5
Oceanographic frontal systems in the Southern Ocean
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- Krill666.jpg: Uwe Kils I am willing to give the image in 1700 resolution to Wikipedia Uwe Kils
Antarctic krill Euphausia superba. This is the startimage of the virtual microscope http://www.ecoscope.com/cybermic/index.htm of krill where you can click into details of the animal to get higher magnifications, like the gills, the feeding basket or the swimming legs, up to raster electron and transmission electron images, also some videos - there are many links to jumpoff sites for educators, like from the SCIENCE MAGAZINE. In natural hovering position - the red organs produce the bioluminescence - the hepatopancreas is filled with green phytoplankton, the food of krill, the strait gut in the back is filled with the empty shells of phytoplankton - in the front you see the compound eye
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Unidentified species of copepod in the order Calanoida.
Diogo Ribeiro (d.1533), Planisphere, 1529
Author/Creator: Seale, Richard William -- Engraver, Licence: CC0
A compleat chart of the coast of Asia and America with the great South Sea / R.W. Seale del. et sculp.; John H. Levine Collection
Udgravning i 1890`erne af Ertebølle-køkkenmøddingen v. Limfjorden som gav navn til kulturperioden. Foto: National- museet
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Johny Cay es uno de los más bellos cayos del Archipiélago de San Andrés y Providencia, Colombia.
"A colorful, data-driven view into how monsoons work."
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Mount Saint Helens seen in June of 2020.
Faddey Bellingshausen (1778-1852), Russian Admiral and explorer, discoverer of Antarctica. Lithography by U. Schzeibach (У. Шзейбах)
Clouds over the Southern Ocean, with continent labels
Ulawun issuing passive steaming as seen from the SE side in this undated photo.
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イシガニ(鹿島港・雌個体；Charybdis japonica female)
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A generall chart of the South Sea ...; Atlases, gazetteers, guidebooks and other books / The sea-atlas : containing an hydrographical description of most of the sea-coasts of the known parts of the world.
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Suggested migratory route of the "Out of Africa" migration according to Mitochondrial DNA
Antarctic Circumpolar Current image from Grace Mission. Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech.
- SACC = Southern Antarctic Circumpolar Current Front
- PF = Polar Front
- SAF = Subantarctic Front
- STF = Subtropical Front
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/lookingatearth/grace-images-20051220.html
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In order to comply with the use and licensing terms of this image, the following text must must be included with the image when published in any medium, failure to do so constitutes a violation of the licensing terms and copyright infringement: © Tomas Castelazo, www.tomascastelazo.com / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
Sea anemone in Baja California, Mexico
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Map of seas of the Philippines
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Sunset taken at Salinas River State Beach, in Monterey County, California.
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Map showing the various outward and return legs of the Portuguese 'Carreira da India' ('India Run') in the 16th C.
Edmond Halley, 1656-1742, Astronomer Royal
(Updated, March 2014) A half-length portrait to the left, showing Halley in a brown velvet coat, white neck-cloth and periwig. Best known for the comet bearing his name, which returned as he predicted in 1758, Edmond Halley worked on a wide range of scientific problems before becoming Astronomer Royal in 1720, at the age of 64.
Halley began a degree at Queen's College, Oxford, but he left without graduating, having obtained a letter from the king, and financial backing from his father (a wealthy businessman), to sail with the East India Company to St Helena. It was on St Helena that he compiled his 341-star catalogue of the southern skies. He also made observations of the transit of Mercury and suggested how these observations might be used with others to calculate the distance of Mercury and the Sun from the Earth. From 1684 Halley persuaded Newton to publish his most important work, the 'Principia' (1687). He was made a captain in the Royal Navy in 1698 and set off in command of the ship 'Paramore' to investigate (unsuccessfully) using the angular difference between true and magnetic north to calculate longitude. He used the 'Paramore' once more in 1701 to perform investigations into tides in the English Channel, before becoming Professor of Geometry at Oxford in 1703. In 1715 Halley produced a pamphlet showing his predictions for the path of the forthcoming solar eclipse, creating public interest in the event. He used reports made form these numerous observers to refine his calculations and thus produced a more accurate map for the path of the 1724 eclipse which also passed across the UK. In 1720, after Flamsteed's death in 1719, he succeeded him as Astronomer Royal and re-equipped the Royal Observatory at Greenwich with a grant from the Board of Ordnance (since Flamsteed's widow had removed all the equipment and furniture there, regarding it as her late husband's property). Now that there was a good star catalogue, Halley saw his main task as improving the accuracy of the lunar tables. These measurements were, however, lacking in accuracy and, though they were eventually published, their limitations soon became obvious.
Halley is buried in St Margaret's churchyard, Lee, London, SE12. When it became necessary to replace his original (Latin-inscribed) tombstone there, it was restored and remounted in the wall of the east pavilion of Flamsteed House at the Observatory, where it can still be seen. This portrait has been reduced in size, but it is very likely that the mezzotint (see PAF3352) which G. White published in 1721, after Halley became Astronomer Royal, is based on it. The painting itself may be rather earlier and would originally have measured 30 x 25 inches (760 x 635 mm). It was purchased by the Museum from the Sabin Galleries, London, in 1968.
Aepyornis, dodo and ostrich in the Museon exhibition.
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The graph sketches the temperature (in °C) and salinity (in psu) profiles for the Canada Basin, for the Amundsen Basin and for the Greenland Sea. The approximate location of the Atlantic Waters and the Arctic Deep Waters are shaded in gray.
The Atlantic Ocean.
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The Spanish Pacific: expeditions, discoveries and main bases of the Spanish Empire Sources: Wikipedia articles and linked information for each entity shown in the map.
Extent of Silk Route/Silk Road. Red is land route and the blue is the sea/water route.
A type B killer whale, showing distinctive two-tone gray “cape” pattern and large eye patch, in a attempt to catch a Weddell seal on an ice floe near Rothera Station, along the Antarctic Peninsula. A seal prey specialist, it may represent a distinct species.
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Bacuit Archipelago, municipality of El Nido, Palawan
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Vertical section through the Arctic Ocean
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Cumulus congestus clouds over the Atlantic Ocean, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.
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Yellow Tang Zebrasoma flavescens at Bristol Zoo, Bristol, England. This is the character Bubbles in the film Finding Nemo. (The purple colour in the background is genuine, I don't know what it's due to).
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Author/Creator: Brian Gratwicke from DC, USA, Licence: CC BY 2.0
Tristan thrush (Nesocichla eremita) on Inaccessible Island strewn with oceanic trash.
Waldseemüller map from 1507 is the first map to include the name "America" and the first to depict the Americas as separate from Asia. There is only one surviving copy of the map, which was purchased by the Library of Congress in 2001 for $10 million.
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This view of Earth's horizon as the sun sets over the Pacific Ocean was taken by an Expedition 7 crew member onboard the International Space Station (ISS). Anvil tops of thunderclouds are also visible.
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Author/Creator: Timo Newton-Syms from Helsinki, Finland and Chalfont St Giles, Bucks, UK, Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0
Malé, Maldives from the air.
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Manganese nodule collected in 1982 from the Pacific. Image width: 8 in
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CIA map of Indian Ocean (File:Indian Ocean-CIA WFB Map.png) with IHO boundaries [1]
Poor air quality persists over India (left) Bangladesh (center) and Myanmar (right). This image from January 14, 2002, shows a thick blanket of pollution butting up against the Himalayas (arcing across the top of the image) and stretching out into the Bay of Bengal (bottom). Tan-colored sediment fills the Bay through the Mouths of the Ganges River (image center). North of the Himalayas, the skies are clear over the Tibetan Plateau.
"Landing place on Stac Lii", illustration from "Climbing in St Kilda" by Norman Heathcote. Scottish Mountaineering Club Journal Volume 6 Number 5, May 1901. Stac Lii, now known as Stac Lee.
Map of the world, from Plate LXXVII
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Burton Island, Atka, and Glacier push together to move a huge iceberg from the channel to McMurdo Station, Antarctica, 29 December 1965.
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- 2010_mavericks_competition.jpg: Shalom Jacobovitz
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2010 Mavericks surfing competition. The image was taken from a boat. Here's Shalom's description of his experience: "The boat was very rocky. Many people got sea sick though. One guy (photog) never even got any pictures he was so sick."
Animation showing decrease of old (thick) Arctic Sea ice 1982-2007
Polar Regions southern exploration map
Map of The Indian Ocean with English captions.
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A minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata).
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Square root of x formula. Symbol of mathematics.
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Picture of a grapevine snail.
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The U.S. Navy Bathyscaphe Trieste, just before her record dive to the bottom of the Marianas Trench, 23 January 1960. The destroyer escort USS Lewis (DE-535) is steaming by in the background.
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Typhoon Tip at peak intensity. Made by using the snapshot tool in Adobe Reader and edited using IrfanView.
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Национальный парк «Русская Арктика»: северная часть архипелага Новая Земля и Земля Франца-Иосифа, Новая Земля, Архангельская область
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Icebergs are breaking off glaciers at Cape York, Greenland. The picture was taken from a helicopter.
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На о. Альдабра под охраной ЮНЕСКО находится колония сухопутных гигантских черепах. Общее число особей - более 100 тысяч.
Depiction of North Atlantic circulation of surface and deep ocean currents.
Diving helmet for professional diver engaged in surface supplied diving
Higher-quality PNG version of John McConnell's Earth Day flag, based on this photograph. Requested at the English Wikipedia Graphics Lab.
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Satellite map showing how the delineation of the Southern Ocean has been moving southwards since the original formal delineation of the ocean in 1928 through to the (draft) delineation by the IHO in 2002.
Map accompanying first edition of IHO Publication Limits of Oceans and Seas, Special Publication 23.
The very end of the legend is the "Southern Ocean" (mers du Sud).
This astronaut photograph illustrates the remains of a giant iceberg—designated A22A— that broke off Antarctica in 2002. The iceberg was photographed at a location of 49.9 degrees south latitude, 23.8 degrees west longitude, which is about a third of the distance from South America towards Cape Town, South Africa. A22A is one of the largest icebergs to drift as far north as 50 degrees south latitude, bringing it beneath the daylight path of the International Space Station (ISS). Crew members aboard the ISS were able to locate the ice mass and photograph it, despite the great masses of clouds that often accompany winter storms in the Southern Ocean. The crew’s viewing angle was oblique (not looking straight down) from a point to the west of the berg, and the time of day was early afternoon, as shown by the orientation of the cloud shadows. Dimensions of A22A in early June were 49.9 by 23.4 kilometres, giving it an area of 622 square kilometres, or seven times the area of Manhattan Island.
| Identification | |
|---|---|
| Mission | ISS015 (Expedition 15) |
| Roll | E |
| Frame | 10125 |
| Country or Geographic Name | ATLANTIC OCEAN |
| Features | A22A ICEBERG, SMALL ICEBERGS |
| Center Point Latitude | -48.8° N |
| Center Point Longitude | -24.0° E |
| Camera | |
| Camera Tilt | 43° |
| Camera Focal Length | 180 mm |
| Camera | Kodak DCS760C Electronic Still Camera |
| Film | 3060 x 2036 pixel CCD, RGBG array. |
| Quality | |
| Percentage of Cloud Cover | 26-50% |
| Nadir What is Nadir? | |
| Date | 2007-05-30 |
| Time | 14:46:44 |
| Nadir Point Latitude | -50.5° N |
| Nadir Point Longitude | -21.8° E |
| Nadir to Photo Center Direction | Northwest |
| Sun Azimuth | 340° |
| Spacecraft Altitude | 181 nautical miles (335 km) |
| Sun Elevation Angle | 16° |
| Orbit Number | 799 |
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Satellite view of Hawaii archipellago (USA).
El Niño effects upon North American weather and atmospheric circulation.
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- Descobrimentos_e_explorações_portugueses.png: *Portuguese_discoveries_and_explorations.png: *Portuguese_Empire_map.jpg: Tokle
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Mapa da exploração, primeiros contactos e conquistas portuguesas na Era dos Descobrimentos (desde a reivindicação das Ilhas Canárias de 1336 à chegada a Tanegashima em 1542/1543), com as datas de chegada indicadas; principais rotas marítimas no Oceano Índico (azul); territórios reivindicados no reinado de D.João III de Portugal c.1536 (verde); versão portuguesa
This image shows the Arctic as observed by the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for EOS (AMSR-E) aboard NASA’s Aqua satellite on September 16, 2007. The image shows a record sea ice minimum in the Arctic.
Author/Creator: Photo taken by Government of Kiribati employee in the course of their work, Licence: CC BY 3.0
South Tarawa is a narrow strip of land between the lagoon and the ocean