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Map of the World Oceans, January 2015 Map of the World Oceans, January 2015 60 90 120 150 180 150 120 90 60 30 0 ARCTIC OCEAN FRANZ JOSEF ARCTIC OCEAN SEVERNAYA LAND Ellesmere ZEMLYA ARCTIC OCEAN Island QUEEN ELIZABETH NEW SIBERIAN ISLANDS AUSTRALIA Independent state NOVAYA Kara Sea Laptev Sea ISLANDS Greenland Sea Svalbard ZEMLYA (NORWAY) Bermuda Baffin Dependency or area of special sovereignty Barents Sea East Siberian Sea Banks Wrangel Island Bay Island Beaufort Sea Jan Mayen Sicily / AZORES Island / island group Victoria (NORWAY) Island Baffin Chukchi Sea Norwegian Island Sea Arctic Circle (66°33') Arctic Circle (66°33') White Sea Scale 1:35,000,000 Davis Denmark Robinson Projection Strait Strait U. S. Faroe standard parallels 38°N and 38°S Islands Gulf (DEN.) of Bothnia 60 Hudson 60 Bay Rockall Gulf of Alaska (U.K.) The Sound Bering Sea Labrador Sea North Baltic C A N A D A UNITED Sea Sea Bremerhaven Sea of KINGDOM NETH. Hamburg U.S. NDS Okhotsk ISLA Felixstowe Rotterdam IAN EUT Island of GERMANY AL Newfoundland Celtic Zeebrugge Antwerp Vancouver BELGIUM Sea Guernsey (U.K.) Gulf of StraitJersey of (U.K.) Le Harve St. Lawrence KURIL Dover ISLANDS FRANCE Sea of Azov St. Pierre Bay of and Miquelon Biscay Tsugaru (FRANCE) Occupied by the SOVIET UNION in 1945, Black Sea Strait administered by RUSSIA, claimed by JAPAN Caspian ITALY Bosporus Sea Barcelona Yingkou New York Sea of Tianjin SPAIN Ambarli Japan AZORES (PORT.) Gioia T U R K E Y Dalian Valencia Oakland Tauro TURK. nal Date Line U N I T E D S T A T E S Dardanelles Algeciras SOUTH JAPAN 1972 Indian Qingdao Hampton MALTA Line of Control Nagoya Tokyo natio claim Yellow KOREA Roads Busan Sea Marsaxlokk Kobe Yokohama Inter Long Beach Line of Lianyungang MADEIRA Actual Gwangyang Mediterranean Sea Control C H I N A Osaka Los Angeles Bermuda ISLANDS Strait of N Savannah (U.K.) (PORT.) Port I R A N A Gibraltar Said Shanghai M N O R T H P A C I F I C South P Louisiana NOR T H ( Houston O 30 J 30 - S A CANARY ISLANDS Ningbo Suez East China - P Bandar D (SP.) A Shahid Sea N S Canal Abbas N H O C E A N ATL ANTIC A Rajai ) Midway Persian L Strait of O Miami/ Taiwan Okinawa S ) Gulf Islands I N T Port Everglades Khor Fakkan OMAN Hormuz A Strait O P (U.S.) EGYPT U - Y A Minami-tori-shima Dubai Ports Xiamen ( J O C E A N EGYPT K Gulf of Mexico Gulf of Oman U (JAPAN) SAUDI Guangzhou Y UNITED ARAB Tropic of Cancer (23°27') Taiwan R Windward British Tropic of Cancer (23°27') EMIRATES Shenzhen HAWAIIAN ISLANDS Yucatan Virgin Islands Passage Virgin (U.K.) Jeddah ARABIA Kaohsiung Channel Islands Honolulu OMAN Hong (U.S.) I N D I A Luzon Wake Island Mona Kong Luzon Philippine U.S. ISLAS Cayman Is. Anguilla (U.K.) Red Strait Northern (U.S.) REVILLAGIGEDO (U.K.) Passage Saint-Martin (FR.) Gulf of Mariana Sint Maarten (NETH.) Sea To n k i n Strait Johnston (MEXICO) JAMAICA Saint Barthelemy (FR.) Salalah Jawaharlal Hainan Islands Atoll Nehru Dao Sea Kingston Puerto PARACEL (U.S.) Navassa Port ISLANDS (U.S.) Island Rico THAILAND (U.S.) (U.S.) Guadeloupe (FR.) VIETNAM Manila Laem Martinique (FR.) Socotra Bay of Chabang Caribbean Sea (YEMEN) Arabian Aruba Gulf of Aden South (NETH.) Curacao BARBADOS Bengal ANDAMAN Ho Chi Guam (NETH.) Sea ISLANDS Minh China (U.S.) Clipperton Island (INDIA) PHILIPPINES (FRANCE) Panama SRI Andaman Gulf of Sea MARSHALL Canal Bab el Mandeb LAKSHADWEEP SPRATLY FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA Balboa (INDIA) LANKA Sea Thailand ISLANDS Laccadive ISLANDS Sea Colombo NICOBAR ISLANDS PALAU Kingman Reef (U.S.) PANAMA (INDIA) Palmyra Atoll (U.S.) Strait of Isla del Coco Isla de Malacca (COSTA RICA) Malpelo M A L A Y S I A Celebes Sea (COLOMBIA) Kelang Kiritimati MALDIVES (Christmas Island) GALAPAGOS PENEDOS DE Gulf of Guinea Tanjung Singapore SÃO PEDRO E SÃO PAULO KIRIBATI Howland Island (U.S.) (KIRIBATI) ISLANDS Pelepas (ECUADOR) (BRAZIL) Equator SINGAPORE Baker Island (U.S.) Equator Equator 0 0 Jarvis NAURU Island (U.S.) Annobon ARQUIPÉLAGO DE FERNANDO DE NORONHA K I R I B A T I (BRAZIL) British Indian Sunda I N D O N E S I A Ocean Territory Strait Java Sea Banda Sea (U.K.) Tanjung Priok Tokelau SEYCHELLES Diego (N.Z.) Garcia Arafura ÎLES MARQUISES Ascension TIMOR-LESTE TUVALU Sea (Fr. Poly.) B R A Z I L Glorioso Islands Christmas (FRANCE) Island Timor (AUSTL.) Wallis and Sea Futuna Cocos Ashmore and (FRANCE) SAMOA Mayotte (Keeling) Islands Cartier Islands Great Gulf of Coral Sea SOCIETY Tromelin Island (AUSTL.) (AUSTL.) Carpentaria Islands American Cook Islands ISLANDS Juan de Nova (FRANCE) (AUSTL.) Samoa (N.Z.) (Fr. Poly.) ARCHIPEL DES TUAMOTU Island Barrier FIJI (U.S.) (FR.) (Fr. Poly.) Saint Coral VANUATU Helena Niue Mozambique I N D I A N Reef Sea (N.Z.) Channel Rodrigues Martin Vaz Reunion F r e n c h P o l y n e s i a (BRAZIL) Bassas (FRANCE) MAURITIUS New TONGA Trindade da India Europa Caledonia (BRAZIL) (FR.) Island O C E A N (FRANCE) (FR.) (FRANCE) Tropic of Capricorn (23°27') Santos Tropic of Capricorn (23°27') Isla Sala y Gómez Isla San Felíx SOUTH A U S T R A L I A Pitcairn Islands (CHILE) (CHILE) Saint Helena, Ascension, Brisbane Norfolk ÎLES TUBUAI (U.K.) AFRICA (Fr. Poly.) Isla San Ambrosio Island Easter Island (CHILE) and Tristan da Cunha (AUSTL.) (CHILE) (U.K.) Durban SOU T H SOUTH 30 CHILE AFRICA KERMADEC Lord Howe Valparaiso ATL ANTIC Island ISLANDS Sydney Cape Town (AUSTL.) (N.Z.) SOU T H P A C I F I C ARCHIPIÉLAGO Great Australian JUAN FERNÁNDEZ Buenos Aires O C E A N Île Amsterdam Bight Auckland (CHILE) Cape of (Fr. S. and Ant. Lands) Melbourne O C E A N ARGENTINA Good Hope TRISTAN DA CUNHA Île Saint-Paul Tasman Sea French Southern and Antarctic Lands (Fr. S. and Ant. Lands) Line Date International (FRANCE) Tasmania NEW Gough Island CHATHAM ZEALAND ISLANDS (N.Z.) ÎLES CROZET (Fr. S. and Ant. Lands) BOUNTY ÎLES KERGUELEN ISLANDS (N.Z.) PRINCE EDWARD (Fr. S. and Ant. Lands) SNARES ISLANDS ISLANDS (N.Z.) Falkland Islands (SOUTH AFRICA) ANTIPODES (Islas Malvinas) ISLANDS (administered by U.K., Heard Island and (N.Z.) claimed by ARGENTINA) AUCKLAND McDonald Islands ISLANDS (AUSTL.) (N.Z.) Campbell Bouvet Island Island (NORWAY) (N.Z.) Macquarie Island South Georgia and (AUSTL.) Scotia Sea South Sandwich Islands (administered by U.K., Drake claimed by ARGENTINA) Passage 60 60 SOUTH ORKNEY ISLANDS S O U T H E R N O C E A N S O U T H E R N O C E A N S O U T H E R N O C E A N Antarctic Circle (66°33') Antarctic Circle (66°33') Suez Amery Ice Canal Major chokepoint Shelf Bellingshausen Sea Major port Amundsen Sea Weddell Sea Shipping lane Ross Sea A n t a r c t i c a (line weight indicates significance of route, not volume of traffic) Ronne Ice Shelf Twenty-one of 28 Antarctic consultative countries have made no 200-nm EEZ (exclusive economic zone) limit claims to Antarctic territory (although Russia and the United States Ross Ice Shelf have reserved the right to do so) and they do not recognize the claims of the other countries. 60 90 120 150 180 150 120 90 60 30 0 January 2015 Boundary representation is not necessarily authoritative. 803745AI (G03545) 1-15.
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