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Marginal Seas of The World

Sources differ over which seas are considered marginal seas as well as which ocean a given sea is considered a marginal part of. There is no single ultimate authority on the matter.

Marginal seas of the Arctic Ocean:

  • Barents Sea
  • Beaufort Sea
  • Chukchi Sea (separated by Wrangel Island)
  • Kara Sea
  • Laptev Sea (separated by the Severnaya Zemlya and the New Siberian Islands)

Marginal seas of the Atlantic Ocean:

  • Argentine Sea
  • Baltic Sea
  • Caribbean Sea
  • English Channel
  • Gulf of Mexico
  • Hudson Bay
  • Irish Sea (separated by Ireland)
  • Mediterranean Sea
  • North Sea (by Great Britain)
  • Norwegian Sea (by Iceland, the Faroe Islands, and Shetland); and Greenland Sea
  • Scotia Sea (by the Falkland Islands, South Georgia, and the South Sandwich Islands)
  • Sometimes the Arctic Ocean itself is considered a marginal sea of the Atlantic.

Marginal seas of the Indian Ocean:

  • Andaman Sea (separated by the Andaman and Nicobar Islands).
  • Arabian Sea
  • Bay of Bengal
  • Java Sea (separated by the Greater Sunda Islands)
  • Persian Gulf
  • Red Sea
  • Sea of Zanj (an historic entity off the southeast African coast and including the Mascarene islands)

Marginal seas of the Mediterranean Sea:

  • Adriatic Sea
  • Aegean Sea
  • Alboran Sea
  • Balearic Sea
  • Black Sea
  • Sea of Crete
  • Ionian Sea
  • Ligurian Sea
  • Myrtoan Sea
  • Thracian Sea
  • Tyrrhenian Sea

Marginal sea of the Black Sea:

  • Sea of Azov

Marginal seas of the Pacific Ocean:

  • Bering Sea (separated by the Aleutian Islands)
  • Celebes Sea
  • Coral Sea (by the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu).
  • East China Sea (by the Ryukyu Islands)
  • Philippine Sea (by the Ogasawara Islands, the Mariana Islands, and Palau)
  • Sea of Chiloé (by Chiloé Island, Chile)
  • Sea of Japan (by the Japanese Archipelago)
  • Sea of Okhotsk (by the Kurile Islands and Kamchatka Peninsula)
  • South China Sea (by the Philippines)
  • Sulu Sea
  • Tasman Sea (between Australia and New Zealand)
  • Yellow Sea (by the Korean Peninsula)

Marginal seas of the Southern Ocean:

  • Scotia Sea

The Caribbean Sea is sometimes defined as a marginal sea, sometimes as a mediterranean sea.

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