Brief description of the Oceans and Seas in the world

Atlantic Ocean

As the second largest ocean in the world, it is about 29 percent of the earth’s water surface area. It is bounded by Africa to the east, and the Americas to the west. Interestingly it is connected in the north to the Arctic Ocean, to the Pacific Ocean in the southwest, the Indian Ocean in the southeast, and the southern ocean to the south. The Atlantic Ocean is divided into two by the Equator: the North Atlantic and South Atlantic Ocean. The world Atlantic practically means Sea of Atlas

Pacific Ocean

This is actually the largest ocean on the planet earth. It covers about 46% of the earth’s water surface. It runs from the arctic region in the north to the Antarctica in the south, it is bounded by the Americas (North and South America) in the east, Asia and Australia in the west. Ferdinand Magellan, the Portuguese explorer, on reaching the ocean with its favorable winds did name the ocean Mar Pacifico in Portuguese meaning peaceful sea.

Indian Ocean

This ocean is bounded by Africa on the west, Antarctica on the south, on the east by Australia, on the north it is bounded by Asia: including India, after which the ocean is named. It is regarded as the third largest ocean on the surface of the earth it covers 20% of the water on the Earth’s surface.

Arctic Ocean

Arctic Ocean is the smallest ocean in the world, although this as did raise issues concerning it been regarded as an ocean. It is completely surrounded by Eurasia and North America. An important fact about this ocean is that it is partly covered by sea ice throughout the year. This ocean makes up 1.3% of the earth’s ocean.

Southern Ocean

Southern Ocean is the fourth largest of the world’s five oceans. The Southern Ocean is also called the Antarctic Ocean or the South Polar Ocean. The Southern Ocean is generally described as extending from the coast of Antarctica north to latitude 60° south. This latitude approximates the location of the Antarctic Convergence, an ocean zone where cold, northbound Antarctic surface waters sink below warmer sub-Antarctic waters.

Arabian Sea

It is a region of the northern Indian Ocean bounded on the southwest by Somalia, on the east by India, on the north by Pakistan and Iran, and on the west by the Arabian Peninsula. Arabian sea had been previously called Sindhu Sagar

Red Sea

The Red sea is bounded by Africa and Asia. It is actually a sea water inlet of the Indian Ocean. This sea supports life as its harbor over 1,000 invertebrates’ species, and 200 soft and hard corals.

Yellow Sea

The Northern part of the East China Sea is referred to as the Yellow sea. It is located between mainland china and the Korean peninsula.

Gulf of Mexico

It is an Ocean basin bounded on the northeast, north, and northwest by the Gulf Coast of the United States, on the southwest and south by Mexico, and southeast by Cuba.

English Channel

It’s a part of the Atlantic Ocean that separates the southern England from northern France and joins the North Sea to the Atlantic.

Baltic Sea

This sea is bounded by the Swedish part of the Scandinavian Peninsula, the mainland of Europe, and the Danish islands. These summarized to the sea being between Central and Eastern Europe

Black Sea

The black sea is bounded by Europe, Anatolia and the Caucasus, it is also connected to the Atlantic Ocean via Mediterranean and the Aegean seas and various straits.

Bay of Bengal

It is bordered by India and Sri Lanka to the west, Bangladesh to the north, and Burma and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands to the east. It forms the northeastern part of the ocean.

Persian Gulf

It is located in Western Asia between Iran to the northeast and the Arabian Peninsula to the southwest. Interestingly the gulf was battle field of the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war.

North Sea

It’s a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean found between Great Britain, Scandinavia, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, and France.

Caribbean Sea

It is actually a sea of the Atlantic Ocean located in the tropics of the western hemisphere. It is bounded by the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico and Central America to the west and southwest, to the north by the Greater Antilles starting with Cuba, to the east by the Lesser Antilles, and to the south by the north coast of South America. The name Caribbean was derived from the Caribs, a dominated Native American group in the region at the time of European contact during the late 15th century.

Caspian Sea

This is the largest enclosed inland body of water on earth by area. It is bounded to the northwest by Russia, to the west by Azerbaijan, to the south by Iran, to the southeast by Turkmenistan, and to the northeast by Kazakhstan.

East China Sea

It’s a marginal sea of the Pacific Ocean, located in the East of china.

South China Sea

It’s a marginal sea of the Pacific Ocean, located west of the Philippines, south of china (esp., Taiwan, east of the Malay Peninsula to the straits of Malacca to the west and the north of the Bangka-Belitung islands and Borneo.

Mediterranean Sea

It is surrounded by the Mediterranean region and almost enclosed by land: on the north by Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, and on the east by the Levant. It is connected to the Atlantic Ocean

Bering Sea

It’s a marginal sea of the Pacific Ocean, bordered on the east and northeast by Alaska, on the west by Russia’s Far East and Kamchatka peninsula, on the sound by the Alaska Peninsula and the Aleutian islands and on the far north by the Bering Strait, which connects the Bering Sea to the Arctic Ocean’s Chukchi Sea.