Arabian Sea

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Arabian Sea
North coast at Ormara in Pakistan

The Arabian Sea ( Arabic بحر العرب, DMG Baḥr al-ʿArab , Persian دریای عرب, Urdu بحیرہ عرب, Hindi अरब सागर ) is a marginal sea of the Indian Ocean between the Arabian Peninsula and India . It has an area of ​​3.9 million km². Its greatest depth of 4481 meters is in the south.

In the northwest it borders the Gulf of Oman , which in turn is connected to the Persian Gulf . In the south-west, the Gulf of Aden connects the Arabian Sea with the Red Sea . In the southeast, the Arabian Sea borders the Lakkadive Sea . Most oceanographers consider the Laccadive Sea to be part of the Arabian Sea. Further to the east, this or the Arabian Sea in the broader sense borders on the Bay of Bengal .

Countries with coastal stretches on the Arabian Sea are the Maldives , India , Pakistan , Oman , Yemen and Somalia .

Cities on the coast include Mumbai (Bombay) and Karachi .

The Indus is the most important river to the Arabian Sea. Other rivers are the Narmada and Tapti , both of which flow into the Gulf of Khambhat .

The Owen Fracture Zone runs to the west of the Arabian Sea .

Islands

The islands in the Arabian Sea include Socotra ( Yemen ), Masirah and the Churiya-Muriya Islands ( Oman ), Astola ( Pakistan ), As well as Salsette and Diu ( India ). As far as the Laccadive Sea is considered part of the Arabian Sea, the Amindives and Laccadives also belong to the islands in the Arabian Sea.

Mud volcanoes - ephemeral islands

The formation of a new island - 76 m × 30 m and 900 m² in size and 18 m high - in 6–7 m shallow sea off the port city of Gwadar, Pakistan, 200 m off the coast was witnessed by eyewitnesses in a  7.7 magnitude earthquake on September 24, 2013. Scientists consider the structure to be a rare mud volcano that is also created by rising methane that actually throws bubbles that have also been found to be flammable. It is to be expected that the soft structure will dissolve again in the swell.

Most recently, after the earthquakes of 1999 and 2000, similar islands were created in the sea - albeit in a different stretch of coast almost 300 kilometers east of Gwadar. According to the authorities, around 60 years ago a new island appeared at the same point in front of Gwadar, 600 m from the coast, but this has disappeared again.

Names

Other names for the Arabian Sea were "Green Sea", "Sea of ​​Oman" or "Persian Sea", they are no longer in use today. The term Green Sea is to be understood as a counterpart to the Red Sea on the western flank of the Arabian Peninsula.

Web links

Commons : Arabian Sea  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Robert Dinwiddie: Ocean_ The World's Last Wilderness Revealed. Dorling Kindersley, London 2008, p. 452
  2. ^ Donald G. Groves & Lee M. Hunt: The Ocean World Encyclopedia . McGraw Hill 1980. p. 195, Laccadive Sea
  3. ↑ A quake creates an island (video) ( Memento from September 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), ORF.at from September 25, 2013.
  4. ↑ A quake creates a new island - “A huge thing” , ORF.at from September 25, 2013.
  5. ↑ Other victims suspected to be under rubble (picture of the island, mention of the earlier island) , ORF.at of 25 September 2013.
  6. ↑ The earthquake shakes Pakistan (video of the side view and flight over the island) ( Memento from September 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), ORF.at from September 25, 2013.
  7. ↑ Arabian Sea. In: Brockhaus Konversationslexikon . 14th edition. 1894–1896, p. 789. Available online at retrobibliothek.de, accessed on February 6, 2012. - The Brockhaus editorial team suggests calling the sea the “more appropriate Indian-Arabian Sea”.

Coordinates: 15 ° 55 ′ 10 ″  N , 63 ° 54 ′ 22 ″  E