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N Sea Sea N G A Sea Ba LO Okhotsk IN Island Queen T N N a S Y D N EA Lake U h A IA Ireland OP g L c I R T Britain EUR l A nds e n Charlotte N N S H Baikal Sakhalin T . la r S D o Cape Lopatka Is T E E N OR n s tia n Islands M R A Celtic N V Island Aleu i a U I u t N O R T H A L nub KAZAKH A l e . A H Sea Da e A L E U RAS L I A T T A Vancouver Island O G T e I EPR S R Gre D Aral Sea UPLANDS A R l T at P S N E N H A Lak L IA S Y E I i E S e E A U s . Bay of P I Lake M S r D O A H L A S C T S N S E u A Newfoundland T P T Biscay d BALKAN A a Balqash . D C N r C s N R K ia p A I A S H M t O i Black Sea S B N A c i I PENINSULA a O N T P S N AME R ICA G H C N Corsica e n A Hu Hokkaido Cape A Cape Cod IBERIAN a Mt. Elbrus I an C East Sea N S M I A A L zo S T g I S E Sardinia TAKLA MAKAN IN 40° Mendocino E i H 40° 40° re e A H (Sea of Japan) 40° V (5,642 m, 18,510 ft.) 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M e g Cape a a G. of l T Lakshadweep S China A (-10,920 m, -35,872 ft.) Marshall r OF PANAMA e d n e r Thailand r n A Gwardafuy iv Sri Lanka c s c S h W S ETHIOPIAN e M Sea Sulu h Caroline Islands Islands A D s e A N . PACIFIC S M S a L L A A d e Nicobar Is. A Sea Panama Canal O G D L HIGHLANDS a Y Mindanao i i U H n y I A A n N H N A IG P OCEAN a E A I G H Gulf of H e L A l N Celebes a Archipiélago de Colón L N Cape Guinea . D Bioko s S L S Lake Sea M I (Galápagos Islands) Palmas Príncipe I u M e s Equator CONGO Victoria m Equator C l Borneo a 0° n l São Tomé e a 0° o A n Mt. Kilimanjaro t Sulawesi a a o v New Hanover AMAZON az KENYA e l m n i Ireland Nauru n A Annobón r (Celebes) u w BASIN g (5,895 m, 19,340 ft.) a e Phoenix Cape d Bismarck N n d l Ne o HIGHLANDS s k w G Sea S Islands N o s SELVAS Lopez l e a Java Sea u ui l e l n o e Lake e M Banda Sea e m Aguja Point M Cape Branco h s a o P Ascension y c Flores New n O Tanganyika e J Is C D BASIN S a . 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