Seas of the Pacific Ocean: list and interesting facts. Which seas belong to the Pacific Ocean

Inhabitants: fish (Pacific herring, cod, pollock, saffron cod, flounder, salmon (chum salmon, pink salmon, chinook salmon), sardine-ivasi, anchovy, mackerel), crabs, trepangs, mammals, shrimps, oysters, scallops, mussels, cuttlefish, squid , seaweed.

Additional information: the length of the Sea of Japan from north to south is 2,255 km, from west to east, about 1,070 km; in winter, the northern part of the sea freezes over.

Location: Western Pacific, between the Indochina Peninsula, Kalimantan, Palawan, Luzon and Taiwan.

Area: 3,537 thousand sq. km.

Maximum depth: 5,560 m.

The bottom relief is cut by numerous underwater reefs, corals, banks and underwater atolls.

Salinity: 32-34‰.

Inhabitants: fish (tuna, herring, sardines and others), shrimps, squids, crabs.

Further information: soil South China Sea consists of silt, sand, shell rock and corals; rocky ground off the coast of rocky islands; Typhoons frequently occur in the South China Sea.

Location: western part of the Pacific Ocean, between the Japanese Islands, Taiwan Islands, Philippine, Izu, Ogasawara, Kazan, Marianas, Yap, Palau.

Area: 5,726 thousand sq. km.

Average depth: 4,108 m.

Maximum depth: 10,265 m (Philippine Trench).

Bottom relief: Philippine, West Mariana basins, an underwater ridge stretched between them.

Average annual water temperatures: 21°С in the north, 28°С.

Currents: North trade wind, Kuroshio.

Salinity: 34.3-35.1‰.

Inhabitants: fish, shellfish, whales.

Further information: The Philippine Sea is the most big sea Pacific Ocean.

Location: Southwest Pacific Ocean, bounded by Fiji, Kermadec, New Zealand, Tasman and Coral Seas.

Area: 3.2 million sq. km.

Average depth: 2,741 m.

Maximum depth: 7,633 m.

Bottom relief: central part occupies a deep-water basin, underwater ridges and volcanoes.

Average annual water temperature: 18-23 °С in the southeast, 25-28 °С in the north.

Salinity: 34.9-35.5‰.

Location: Southwest Pacific Ocean, between Australia and New Zealand (south of parallel 30º S).

Area: 3.3 million sq. km.

Average depth: 3,285 km.

Maximum depth: about 5200 m.

Average annual temperatures: 9-15 °С in the south, 23-27 °С in the north.

Salinity: 35-35.5 ‰.

Bottom relief: deep-sea basin with seamounts.

Abode: tuna, horse mackerel, mackerel and others.

Additional information: the sea is named after the Dutch navigator Abel Tasman, who was the first European to reach Tasmania and New Zealand; in the Tasman Sea are Lord Howe Island, Bol's Pyramid, Norfolk Island.

Location: between the Solomon Islands, New Britain and New Guinea.

Area: 755 thousand sq. km.

Average depth: 2,652 m.

Maximum depth: 9,103 m.

Water temperature: about 27 ºС.

Salinity: 34.5‰.

Bottom relief: deep-sea basins, underwater active volcanoes, Coral reefs.

Location: northeastern shores of Asia, separated from the ocean by the Kamchatka Peninsula, the Kuril Islands, and the island of Hokkaido.

Area: 1,583 thousand sq. km.

Average depth: 821 m.

Maximum depth: 3,372 m.

Average temperatures: -1.8 -2 °С in February, 1.5-15 °С in August.

Salinity: 7-32‰.

Bottom relief: continental shallows, deep sea trenches, uplands of the USSR Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Oceanology, TINRO depression, Deryugin depression, Kuril basin.

Inhabitants: about 300 species of fish live in the Sea of Okhotsk, including herring, flounder, cod, pollock, nagava, capelin, pink salmon, chum salmon, coho salmon, chinyga; king crabs, seals, sea lions, sperm whales.

Additional information: the length of the Sea of Okhotsk from northwest to southeast is 2500 km; The Amur, Penzhina, Okhota, Uda, and Bolshaya rivers flow into the Sea of Okhotsk.

Location: bounded by the coasts of Australia, New Guinea, New Caledonia, the southern border conditionally runs along 30 ° S. sh.

Area: 4,068 thousand square meters km.

Average depth: 2,468 m.

Maximum depth: 9,174 m.

Average water temperatures: 24°C in February, 16°C in August.

Salinity: up to 35.5 ‰.

Bottom relief: Large barrier reef, Queensland plateau, Bellona, many coral atolls and reefs.

Additional information: the world's largest and unique coral reef is located in the Coral Sea.

Location: Pacific Ocean, west of the Korean Peninsula.

Area: 416 thousand square meters km.

Average depth: 38 m.

Maximum depth: 106 m.

Average temperatures: 0-8 °С in February, 24-28 °С in August.

Salinity: 26-34‰.

Inhabitants: fish (cod, herring, sea bream and many others), oysters, mussels.

Additional Information: The sea was named after its color muddy water the Huang He and Hai He rivers flowing into it

Many seas wash the shores of one or more countries. Some of these seas are huge, others are very small... Only the inland seas are not part of the ocean.

After the Earth formed from a bunch of gas and dust 4.5 billion years ago, the temperature on the planet dropped and the vapor contained in the atmosphere condensed (turned into liquid when cooled), settling on the surface in the form of rain. From this water, the world ocean was formed, subsequently divided by the continents into four oceans. These oceans include numerous coastal seas, often interconnected.

The largest seas of the Pacific Ocean

Philippine Sea
Area: 5.7 million km2, located between Taiwan in the north, the Marianne Islands in the east, the Caroline Islands in the southeast and the Philippines in the west.

coral sea
Area: 4 million km 2, bounded in the west by Australia, Papua New Guinea in the north, Vanuatu in the east and New Caledonia

South China Sea
Area: 3.5 million km 2, located between the Philippines in the east, Malaysia in the south, Vietnam in the west and China in the north

tasman sea
Area: 3.3 million km 2, washes Australia in the west and New Zealand in the east and separates the Pacific and Indian oceans.

Bering Sea
Area: 2.3 million km 2, located between Chukotka (Russia) in the west and Alaska (USA) in the east.

Japanese Sea
Area: 970,000 km2, located between the Russian Far East in the northwest, Korea in the west and Japan in the east.

Major seas of the Atlantic Ocean

Sargasso Sea
Area: 4 million km 2, located between Florida (USA) in the west and the northern Antilles in the south.

Composition of sea water

Sea water is approximately 96% water and 4% salt. Not to mention Dead Sea, the saltiest sea in the world is the Red Sea: it contains 44 grams of salt per liter of water (against 35 grams on average for most seas). Such a high salt content is due to the fact that in this hot region, water evaporates faster.

gulf of guinea
Area: 1.5 million km 2, located at the latitude of the Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon.

Mediterranean Sea
Area: 2.5 million km 2, surrounded by Europe in the north, Western Asia in the east and North Africa on South.

Antilles Sea
Area: 2.5 million km 2, located between the Antilles in the east, the coast of South America in the South and Central America in the West.

Gulf of Mexico
Area: 1.5 million km 2, it is adjacent to the southern coast of the United States from the north and Mexico from the west.

Baltic Sea
Area: 372,730 km 2 , washes Russia and Finland in the north, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in the east, Poland and Germany in the south and Denmark with Sweden in the west.

North Sea
Area: 570,000 km2, bordered by Scandinavia to the east, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and France to the south, and Great Britain to the west.

Major seas of the Indian Ocean

Arabian Sea
Area: 3.5 million km 2, washes the Arabian Peninsula in the west, Pakistan in the north and India in the east.

bay of bengal
Area: 2.1 million km 2, located between the coasts of India in the west, Bangladesh in the north, Myanmar (Burma) in the northeast, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the southeast and Sri Lanka in the southwest.

Great Australian Bight (Australian Bight)
Area: 1.3 million km 2, extends along south coast Australia.

Arafura Sea
Area: 1 million km 2, located between papua new guinea in the northwest, Indonesia in the west and Australia in the south.

mozambique channel
Area: 1.4 million km 2, located near Africa, between the coasts of Mozambique in the west and Madagascar in the east.

The largest seas of the Arctic Ocean

Barents Sea
Area: 1.4 million km 2, washes the coast of Norway in the west and Russia in the east.

Greenland Sea
Area: 1.2 million km 2, bounded by Greenland in the west and the island of Svalbard (Norway) in the east.

East-Siberian Sea
Area: 900,000 km 2, washes the coast of Siberia.

The largest seas of Antarctica

inland seas

Inland, or closed, seas are completely surrounded by land. Black and Caspian Sea- the largest of them.

Black Sea
Area: 461,000 km2. It is surrounded by Romania and Bulgaria to the west, Russia and Ukraine to the north, Georgia to the east and Turkey to the south. It communicates with mediterranean sea through Marble.

Bellingshausen Sea
Area: 1.2 million km 2, located near Antarctica.

Caspian Sea
Area: 376,000 km2, located between Azerbaijan in the west, Russia in the northwest, Kazakhstan in the north and east, Turkmenistan in the southeast and Iran in the south.

Ross Sea
Area: 960,000 km2, located north of Antarctica.

Weddell Sea
Area: 1.9 million km 2, located between the South Orkney Islands (UK) and the South Shetland Islands (UK) in the north and Antarctica in the south.

The Dead Sea is so salty that there are no living organisms in it.

The largest of all oceans is the Pacific. It washes five continents and covers an area of 179 million km2. It includes many rivers, bays and seas. Almost 10 thousand islands and archipelagos are washed by its waters. What rivers are in the Pacific Ocean? What seas does it belong to?

great ocean

Ferdinand Magellan was one of the first to set out on an open voyage across the unknown ocean. He was very lucky with the weather, which is why he named it Quiet. Fortune smiled on the navigator, because the ocean is far from calm everywhere. For example, volcanoes and mountains located on the border with it can cause tsunamis, and typhoons and hurricanes often occur in tropical latitudes.

It is also called the Great Ocean, because it is the largest in size. It accounts for approximately 33% of the planet's surface and almost 50% of the ocean area. It washes all the continents of the Earth except Africa. Its average depth is 3984 meters, which is higher than other oceans.

Most deep place - Mariana Trench, which goes down to 11 thousand meters. At the bottom of the ocean there are no less impressive trenches, such as the Philippine (10,540 m) or the Kuril-Kamchatsky (9,783 m).

The ocean amazes with the number of islands, among which there are many tourist ones. Important transport routes run through it. Its bottom serves as a source of minerals, and the waters have become home to a huge number of species. commercial fish, mammals, mollusks, rare animals and plants. However, not all of its inhabitants are known to science.

Seas of the Pacific Basin

All the seas, straits and bays of the Pacific Ocean occupy 18% of its area. In the western part of the ocean, the coasts of the mainlands are strongly dissected and surrounded by numerous islands. Thanks to this, there is the largest number seas. In total there are about 30 of them.

In the east, the coast is smoother, and there are no seas there. But there are three bays: Panama, California and Alaska. Next to the latter is the northernmost sea of the Pacific Ocean - the Bering Sea. It washes the shores of Eurasia and North America, and from the south it is bordered by the “dotted line” of the Commander and Aleutian Islands.

Together with the Sea of Okhotsk and the Sea of Japan, the Bering Sea washes the Far East of Russia. To the south of them, the number of reservoirs begins to increase. The most famous are: East China, Yellow, Coral, Philippine, Fiji, Bandu, Tasman and Solomon seas. They wash Australia and the southeastern part of Eurasia.

If you do not take into account the concept of the Southern Ocean, then the Pacific Ocean reaches Antarctica. There it forms the Amundsen, Ross, Bellingshausen and other water bodies named after the discoverers.

Rivers of the Pacific Basin

Approximately 40 rivers belong to the Great Ocean. For most of them (Mekong, Yukon, Amur), the mouth "opens" into the seas and bays. Some (Mamberamo, Yoshino, Balsas) fall into open waters i.e. into the ocean.

Due to the peculiarities of the relief of the continents, many of them are mountainous. As a rule, they are fast and full-flowing. This allows them to punch their way through the rocks, forming the most beautiful gorges and valleys, like Grand Canyon rivers of Colorado.

It is interesting that very large rivers of the Pacific Ocean basin are found only in Eurasia and North America. They are not found in Australia due to the hot and arid climate. In South America, water is blocked by a dense wall of mountains. In Antarctica the most big river flows not into the ocean, but into the lake of one of its valleys.

Learn more with the largest and long rivers the Pacific Ocean basin, see the table.

Name		Place of confluence	Length, km
		East China Sea
		Yellow Sea
	China, Myanmar, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Laos	South China Sea
	Canada, USA	Bering Sea
	Russia, China	Amur Estuary
Colorado	USA, Mexico	gulf of california
Pearl (Zhujiang)		South China Sea
		Strait of Georgia
		Yellow Sea
Chao Phraya		South China Sea

Yangtze

The Yangtze is the deepest river in Eurasia and the longest river in the Pacific Ocean. She begins her journey in the Tibetan Plateau and ends in the East China Sea. The river basin covers ⅕ of the area of all of China. It divides the country into northern and southern regions who differ markedly in their culture.

In Yunnan province, the river flows through deep gorges national park"Three Parallel Rivers". The height of the rocks here reaches about 3000 kilometers. River waters are used for irrigation of fields, navigation and energy. The world's largest hydroelectric power plant is located on the Yangtze. In the area of the famous Leaping Tiger Gorge, it forms many rapids, attracting the attention of rafting enthusiasts.

Yukon

The Yukon River begins in Lake Marsh, in northwestern Canada, and then flows into Alaska, emptying into the Bering Sea. Most of the year it is covered with ice, which melts for a maximum of four months.

The river has long been ignored by the white population of America. The first attempts to study it began only in 1830. But in the XX century, it became one of the most famous, thanks to the "gold rush". On the right tributary of the river, the Klondike, gold was discovered. Very quickly, everyone who wanted to earn money began to come here, and the name of the tributary turned into a household name and began to mean a place full of treasures.

Amur

On the Far East the Amur river is the longest. It originates from the confluence of Shilka and Argun. It stretches across four regions of Russia, from Transbaikalia to Khabarovsk Territory, and for almost its entire length is a natural border with China.

The mouth of the Amur is controversial. The river flows into the Amur estuary, and it is periodically referred to either the Sea of Okhotsk or the Sea of Japan. As a rule, the first wins more often. Along its entire length, the river is navigable and serves as a crossing not only for passenger, but also for cargo ships. In addition, it is known for a huge variety of fish (108-140 species), which are twice as many here as in the largest rivers of Russia - the Lena, Ob and Yenisei.

Anadyr

Both the source and the mouth of the Anadyr River are located on the territory of Russia. It begins on the Anadyr Plateau and flows into the bay of the Bering Strait - Onemen. Anadyr is far from the best major river ocean, but the largest in Chukotka. Its length is 1150 kilometers.

About 30 species of fish (whitefish, chum salmon, salmon) are found in the river, and reserves of gold and coal have been found in its lower reaches. Its numerous tributaries and branches are connected to each other through lakes, forming a dense network. Most of them are fickle, and dry up in the middle of a short summer, forming oxbow lakes.

Territory Russian Federation washed by three oceans. All the seas of Russia, a list of which is given in the text of the article, are interesting and special in their own way. All of them are unique and original.

Seas of Russia: list

The largest country on the planet is connected to three oceans through 12 seas, both inland and marginal. One sea of Russia does not have a direct connection with the World Ocean (except for the connection through - this is the Caspian Sea, which is drainless.

Alphabetical list of seas surrounding Russia

Sea	Belonging to the ocean
Azov	to the atlantic ocean
Barents	to the Arctic Ocean
Baltic	to the atlantic ocean
White	to the Arctic Ocean
Beringovo	to the Pacific Ocean
East Siberian	to the Arctic Ocean
Caspian	drainless
Kara	to the Arctic Ocean
Laptev	to the Arctic Ocean
Okhotsk	to the Pacific Ocean
Black	to the atlantic ocean
Chukchi	to the Arctic Ocean
Japanese	to the Pacific Ocean

Total - 13 seas.

Seas of the Atlantic

Seas from the pool Atlantic Ocean beat on the western shores of Russia. From the north it is the Baltic Sea, in the south - the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea.

They are united by such features:

they are all inland, that is, deeply continental;
all of them are the final seas of the Atlantic, that is, to the east of them, either the waters of another ocean, or land.

The coastline of Russia along the seas of the Atlantic is about 900 km. Baltic Sea concern Leningrad and Kaliningrad region. Black and Sea of Azov wash the shores of the Rostov region, Krasnodar Territory and Crimea.

Seas of the Arctic Ocean

Some seas of Russia (the list is given above) belong to the basin Arctic Ocean. There are six of them: five of them are marginal (Chukotskoye, Kara, Laptev, East Siberian, Barents) and one is internal (Beloye).

Almost all of them all year round covered with ice. Thanks to Atlantic current southwest Barents Sea. The waters of the Arctic Ocean reach the territory of such subjects of Russia as the Murmansk region, the Arkhangelsk region, the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District, the Taimyr Autonomous District, the Republic of Sakha, the Chukotka Autonomous District.

Seas of the Pacific Ocean

The list of seas washing the shores of Russia from the east and belonging to the Pacific Ocean is given below:

Beringovo;
Japanese;
Okhotsk.

These seas adjoin the territories of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, the Magadan Region, the Kamchatka Region, the Khabarovsk Territory, Sakhalin region, Primorsky Territory.

warm seas

Half of the Russian seas are covered with ice all year round. There are seas that are partially covered with an ice crust for a certain period of time. The warm seas of Russia, the list of which is given below, do not freeze during the year. So to warm seas Russia include:

Seas of Russia: a list of unique seas

All geographical objects of the Earth are special and interesting in their own way. There are objects that are unique and unrepeatable. Of course, this is Lake Baikal, the Volga, Kamchatka geysers, the Kuril Islands and much more. The seas of Russia are also exceptional, a list of which is given below. The table shows the characteristics of some of the seas of Russia in terms of their uniqueness.

List of seas washing Russia

Sea	Characteristic in terms of uniqueness
Azov	It is considered the most inland sea of the planet. Communication with the waters of the oceans occurs through four straits and four seas. With a depth of no more than 13.5 m, it is recognized as the most shallow sea on the planet.
Baltic	It is one of the most "unsalted" seas in the world. Approximately 80% of the world's amber is mined here, which is why the sea was called Amber in ancient times.
Barents	This is the westernmost sea of Russia from those that are beyond the Arctic Circle. It is considered the cleanest sea of all that wash the shores of Europe.
White	The sea, which has a small area, is the second small sea in Russia after the Sea of \u200b\u200bAzov. Washes the lands of the historical and cultural monument of Russia -
Beringovo
Japanese	The southernmost, but not the hottest sea in Russia. Of all the seas of Russia, this one has the richest underwater world.

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