Curated category
Seas of Asia
- Red SeaThe Red Sea sits between Africa and Asia, a narrow corridor of water that carries roughly 12 percent of all global trade.
- Black SeaThe Black Sea holds a secret beneath its surface: below a certain depth, nothing breathes. Over 90% of the deeper water volume is completely anoxic, starved…
- Kara SeaThe Kara Sea freezes over for all but two months of the year, locking its waters in ice from September to May. On 16th-century maps it carried a Latin name…
- East Siberian SeaThe East Siberian Sea sits at the top of the world, a vast stretch of Arctic water pressed between the coast of Siberia to the south and the open Arctic…
- Sea of OkhotskThe Sea of Okhotsk sits at the northwestern edge of the Pacific Ocean, pressed between Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula, the Kuril Islands, Japan's island of…
- Sea of JapanThe Sea of Japan sits in near-total isolation from the Pacific Ocean, enclosed by the Japanese archipelago, the Korean Peninsula, Sakhalin, and the Russian…
- Laptev SeaThe Laptev Sea sits at the northern edge of Siberia, frozen for most of the year and clear of ice for perhaps two months out of twelve.
- Aegean SeaThe Aegean Sea sits between two continents, a body of water roughly 215,000 square kilometres in area that has shaped the course of Western civilization.
- Chukchi SeaThe Chukchi Sea sits at the top of the world, wedged between Russia and Alaska, where the Pacific Ocean finally meets the Arctic.
- Mediterranean SeaThe Mediterranean Sea holds about 2,500,000 square kilometers of water, yet that represents only 0.7% of the global ocean surface.
- Bering SeaThe Bering Sea sits at the edge of two worlds. It is the body of water that divides the two largest landmasses on Earth: Eurasia and the Americas.