Curated playlist
Seas of Asia
- Red SeaThe Red Sea may not be named for its color. Herodotus used Red Sea and Southern Sea interchangeably.
- Black SeaWooden ships sunk in the Black Sea centuries ago have survived because the deep water has no oxygen.
- Kara SeaIn 1912, ice trapped three Russian expeditions in the Kara Sea, and all three failed.
- East Siberian SeaThe East Siberian Sea had no official name until 1935. Before that, Russian records used five different names for it.
- Persian GulfThe Persian Gulf stretches 989 kilometres from end to end, yet its deepest point reaches only 90 metres. Its average depth is about 50 metres, so ships cross a sea that is shallow almost everywhere. Geographers call it a mediterranean sea,…
- Sea of OkhotskA pocket of open water inside the Sea of Okhotsk fell outside Russian control.
- Sea of JapanThe Sea of Japan behaves almost like a giant lake. Shallow straits nearly seal it off from the Pacific.
- Laptev SeaThe Laptev Sea, north of Siberia, is clear of ice for perhaps two months a year.
- Aegean SeaThe word archipelago began as the proper name of the Aegean Sea. A 1268 treaty used the form Arcipelago.
- Chukchi SeaIn 1934, the steamer Chelyuskin sank in Chukchi Sea ice, and 104 people camped on the ice.
- Mediterranean SeaAround 5.9 million years ago, the Mediterranean Sea was partly or completely dried out for roughly 600,000 years.
- Bering SeaA meteor the size of a small building exploded over the Bering Sea in 2018. Almost no one saw it.