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Oceans & Seas

A	Abu Qir Aden, Gulf of Adriatic Sea Aegean Sea Agulhas Current Alaska, Gulf of Aleutian Trench and Arc Algoa Bay Amundsen Sea Andaman Sea Antarctic Circumpolar Current Antarctic Continental Shelf Aqaba, Gulf of Arabian Sea Arafura Sea Arctic Ocean Atlantic Ocean Azov, Sea of

D	Dardanelles Davis Strait Delagoa Bay Delaware Bay Dingle Bay Dogger Bank Donegal Bay Dover, Strait of Drake Passage Dublin Bay Dundalk Bay

E	El Niño English Channel Equatorial Megashear

F	Finland, Gulf of Firth of Tay Florida, Straits of Fonseca, Gulf of Foveaux Strait Frobisher Bay Fundy, Bay of

G	Galápagos Rift Galway Bay Gdańsk, Gulf of Georgia, Strait of Gibraltar, Strait of Golden Gate Strait Goodwin Sands Grand Banks Great Australian Bight Great Barrier Reef Greenland Sea Guantánamo Bay Guinea, Gulf of Gulf of Kachchh Gulf of Mannar Gulf Stream

H	Harbour Hardanger Fjord Hormuz, Strait of Hudson Bay Hudson Strait Humboldt Current

I	Indian Ocean Inland Sea Ionian Sea Irish Sea

J	James Bay Japan, Sea of Java Sea Java Trench Jervis Bay Juan de Fuca, Strait of

K	Kara Sea Kattegat Khambhāt, Gulf of Korea Strait Kuroshio

L	La Niña Labrador Current Laptev Sea Ligurian Sea Lion, Gulf of Liverpool Bay Lomonosov Ridge Long Island Sound Lough Foyle Lyme Bay

Magellan, Strait of
Makassar Strait
Malacca, Strait of
Manila Bay
Mariana Trench
Marlborough Sounds
Marmara, Sea of
Mascarene Plateau
Maury, Matthew Fontaine
Mediterranean Sea
Mendocino Fracture Zone
Messina, Strait of
Mexico, Gulf of
Milford Sound
Minches, The
Moray Firth
Morecambe Bay
Mozambique Channel

N	Naples, Bay of North Channel North Sea Norwegian Sea

O	Oceans and Oceanography Okhotsk, Sea of Oman, Gulf of Øresund Otranto, Strait of

P	Pacific Guyots Pacific Ocean Palk Strait Patraïkós, Gulf of Pearl Harbor Persian Gulf Peru-Chile Trench Philippine Sea Philippine Trench Pole Abyssal Plain Prince William Sound Prudhoe Bay Puerto Rico Trench Puget Sound

R	Red Sea Riga, Gulf of Ross Sea

T	Table Bay Taiwan Strait Taranto, Gulf of Tasman Sea Thailand, Gulf of Thermaïkós, Gulf of Timor Sea Tonga Trench Tongue of the Ocean Tonkin, Gulf of Torres Strait Tyrrhenian Sea

V	Venezuela, Gulf of Viscount Melville Sound

W	Waddenzee Wash, The Weddell Sea Wexford Bay White Sea

Y	Yampi Sound Yellow Sea

Z	Zalew Wiślany Zanzibar Channel

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