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Encyclopediaseasea, term used as synonymous with ocean, or a subdivision of an ocean (Caribbean Sea, Yellow Sea), or erroneously designating a large salt lake (Caspian Sea, Dead Sea, Aral Sea). The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright © 2007, Columbia University Press. All rights reserved. More on sea from Infoplease:
- South Seas - South Seas South Seas, name given by early explorers to the whole of the Pacific Ocean. In recent ...
- Erythraean Sea - Erythraean Sea Erythraean Sea , name of unclear origin anciently applied to the Indian Ocean, later ...
- Norwegian Sea - Norwegian Sea Norwegian Sea, part of the Atlantic Ocean, NW of Norway, between the Greenland Sea ...
- Amundsen Sea - Amundsen Sea Amundsen Sea, arm of the S Pacific Ocean, W Antarctica, bordered by Thurston Island ...
- Mediterranean Sea - Mediterranean Sea Mediterranean Sea [Lat.,=in the midst of lands], the world's largest inland ...
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