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A view of Filfla and the Mediterranean Sea. Filfla is a small, mostly barren, uninhabited islet 4.5 kilometres (2.8 miles) south of Malta.
A panorama of Zanzibar, Tanzania, particularly the Stone Town, taken from the Indian Ocean
Asea anemone in the Pacific Ocean, Baja California, Mexico
Clouds over the Southern Ocean, with continent labels
Caesio teres in the South Pacific Ocean in Fiji
A view of the South China Sea, Bacuit Archipelago, municipality of El Nido, Palawan, Philippines
Icebergs broken off from glaciers in northern Baffin Bay, Cape York, Greenland
A mother sperm whale and her calf in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Mauritius
Orca (Orcinus orca) hunting a Weddell seal in the Southern Ocean
A view of the Southern Ocean from Great Ocean Road, Port Campbell, Princetown, Victoria, Australia
Satellite view of the Pacific Ocean and the main windward Hawaiian Islands
A surfer in the Pacific Ocean at the 2010 Mavericks competition, village of Princeton-by-the-Sea, northern California
A view of Myrtos Beach and the Ionian Sea, Cephalonia, Ionian Islands, Greece
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The ocean is the body of salt water that covers approx. 70.8% of Earth. In English, the term ocean also refers to any of the large bodies of water into which the world ocean is conventionally divided. The following names describe five different areas of the ocean: Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Antarctic/Southern, and Arctic. The ocean contains 97% of Earth's water and is the primary component of Earth's hydrosphere; thus the ocean is essential to life on Earth. The ocean influences climate and weather patterns, the carbon cycle, and the water cycle by acting as a huge heat reservoir. (Full article...)
Asea is a large bodyofsalty water. There are particular seas and the sea. The sea commonly refers to the ocean, the wider body of seawater. Particular seas are either marginal seas, second-order sections of the oceanic sea (e.g. the Mediterranean Sea), or certain large, nearly landlocked bodies of water. (Full article...)
Oceanography (from Ancient Greek ὠκεανός (ōkeanós) 'ocean', and γραφή (graphḗ) 'writing'), also known as oceanology, sea science, ocean science, and marine science, is the scientific study of the oceans. It is an Earth science, which covers a wide range of topics, including ecosystem dynamics; ocean currents, waves, and geophysical fluid dynamics; plate tectonics and seabed geology; and fluxes of various chemical substances and physical properties within the ocean and across its boundaries. These diverse topics reflect multiple disciplines that oceanographers utilize to glean further knowledge of the world ocean, including astronomy, biology, chemistry, geography, geology, hydrology, meteorology and physics. Paleoceanography studies the history of the oceans in the geologic past. An oceanographer is a person who studies many matters concerned with oceans, including marine geology, physics, chemistry, and biology. (Full article...)
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