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Marginal seas are secondary seas that lie on the edge of the continents or oceans and are only separated from the free ocean by chain of islands , sea ridges or deep sea channels - i.e. only incompletely.
Inland seas are to be distinguished from marginal seas . These are secondary seas that are only connected to an ocean or a larger sea by a very narrow strait (sea strait ) with a line of sight to the opposite shore. Mediterranean seas are secondary seas that lie between different continents.
Occasionally the term marginal sea is understood more broadly and equated with adjacent sea . According to this understanding, inland seas and Mediterranean seas are also part of the marginal seas.
Examples of marginal seas
These are the marginal seas of the oceans (sorted alphabetically):
Arctic Ocean
- Barents Sea
- Beaufortsee
- European Arctic Ocean
- Greenland Sea
- Hudson Bay
- Kara Sea
- Laptev Lake
- Lincoln lake
- East Siberian Sea
- Chukchi Sea
- Wandelsee
- White sea
Atlantic Ocean
- American Mediterranean , consisting of
- English Channel
- Baffin Bay
- Biscay
- European Arctic Ocean
- Gulf of Guinea
- Gulf of Maine
- Irish Sea
- Irmingersee
- Kattegat
- Celtic sea
- Labrador Sea
- North Sea
- Gulf of Saint Lawrence
- Sargasso lake
- Scottish Sea
Indian Ocean
Pacific Ocean
- Bering Sea
- Celebes Sea
- Yellow Sea
- Gulf of California
- Japanese sea
- Coral Sea
- Sea of Okhotsk
- East China Sea
- South China Sea
- Tasman Sea
Southern ocean
The marginal seas are (clockwise order):
- Somow Lake (Pacific Sector)
- Ross Sea (Pacific Sector)
- Amundsen Sea (Pacific Sector)
- Bellingshausen Lake (Pacific Sector)
- Lake Scotia (southern part) (Atlantic sector)
- Weddell Sea (Atlantic Sector)
- King Haakon VII Lake (Atlantic Sector)
- Lazarev Lake (Atlantic Sector)
- Riiser-Larsen-See (Indian sector)
- Cosmonaut Lake (Indian Sector)
- Cooperation Lake (Indian Sector)
- Davissee (Indian Sector)
- Mawson Lake (Indian Sector)
- D'Urville Lake (Indian Sector)