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Bay separating Nunavut from Greenland

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Baffin Bay

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Sea off the south coast of Ireland, to the edge of the continental shelf

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Celtic Sea

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Strait connecting Baffin Bay to the Labrador Sea

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Davis Strait

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Bay between New Brunswick and Nova Scotia renowned for its high tidal range

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Bay of Fundy

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Sea between Australia and New Zealand

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Tasman Sea

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Sea bounded on the north by Pakistan and India, connected to the Persian Gulf by the Gulf of Oman and to the Red Sea by the Gulf of Aden

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Arabian Sea

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Seawater inlet of the Indian Ocean, lying between Africa and Asia

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Red Sea

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Estuary between the U.S. states of New York and Connecticut

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Long Island Sound

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Also known as the Sea of Cortés

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Gulf of California

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Strait between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman

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Strait of Hormuz

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Sea between Atlantic Canada and Greenland

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Labrador Sea

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Strait connecting Baffin Bay to the Arctic Ocean

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Nares Strait

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Pacific sea between Russia and Alaska; largest sea in the world

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Bering Sea

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Northern part of the East China Sea, located between China and Korea

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Yellow Sea

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Strait that separates the Labrador Peninsula from the island of Newfoundland

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Strait of Belle Isle

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World’s shallowest sea; linked by the narrow Strait of Kerch to the Black Sea

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Sea of Azov

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Sea between the Italian Riviera and the island of Corsica

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Ligurian Sea

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Sea historically also known as the Burma Sea

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Andaman Sea

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Strait between Newfoundland and Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia (the widest of the three outlets for the Gulf of Saint Lawrence into the Atlantic Ocean)

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Cabot Strait

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Sea supplied by the Danube and Dnieper, among other rivers

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Black Sea

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Also known as the Golfe de Gascogne and the Golfo de Vizcaya, it lies off the west coast of France and the north coast of Spain

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Bay of Biscay

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Sea south of China, east of Vietnam, and west of the Philippines

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South China Sea

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Sea between southern Italy and the west coast of Greece

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Ionian Sea

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Sea known to the Ancient Romans as Mare Nostrum (“Our Sea”)

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Mediterranean Sea

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Sea between the Balkans, Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Western Asia
Black Sea
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Saltiest sea in the world
Red Sea
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Estuary off the coast of Virginia and dividing the state of Maryland
Chesapeake Bay
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Sea located off the northern coasts of Norway and Russia
Barents Sea
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Narrow strait connecting the Black Sea with the Sea of Marmara; also known as the Strait of Istanbul
Bosporus
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Narrow strait connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Atlantic Ocean
Strait of Gibraltar
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Southernmost part of Hudson Bay
James Bay
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Inlet of the Ionian Sea, separating the Peloponnese from western mainland Greece
Gulf of Corinth
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Sea north of the Northwest Territories, the Yukon, and Alaska
Beaufort Sea
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Strait separating Tasmania from the Australian mainland
Bass Strait
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Gulf at the outlet of the Great Lakes into the Atlantic Ocean
Gulf of Saint Lawrence
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Large bay in northeastern Canada
Hudson Bay
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Sea separating the islands of Ireland and Great Britain
Irish Sea
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Body of water between Iran to the northeast and the Arabian Peninsula to the southwest
Persian Gulf
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Sea off the northeast coast of Australia; includes the Great Barrier Reef
Coral Sea
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Narrow strait connecting the Sea of Marmara with the Aegean and Mediterranean Seas; known in antiquity as the Hellespont
Dardanelles
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Gulf including the Bay of Fundy, Massachusetts Bay, and Cape Cod Bay
Gulf of Maine
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Strait between mainland British Columbia and Vancouver Island
Georgia Strait
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Southern Ocean sea bounded by Coats Land and the Antarctic Peninsula
Weddell Sea
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Body of water called “la Manche,” or “the Sleeve” by the French
English Channel
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Waterway connecting the Red Sea to the Mediterranean
Suez Canal
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Bay bounded on the west and northwest by India on the north by Bangladesh, and on the east by Myanmar and the Andaman Islands
Bay of Bengal
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Channel between the African continent and Madagascar
Mozambique Channel
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Sea between Japan, Korea, and Russia
Sea of Japan (East Sea)
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Southernmost sea in the world, between Victoria Land and Marie Byrd Land in Antarctica
Ross Sea
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Gulf separating Sweden and Finland
Gulf of Bothnia
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Sea located between Great Britain and Scandinavia
North Sea
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Sea between Siberia and the Kamchatka Peninsula, bounded by Hokkaido to the south
Sea of Okhotsk
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Gulf largely surrounded by the North American continent, bounded on the southeast by Cuba
Gulf of Mexico
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Embayment of the Mediterranean Sea located between the Greek and Anatolian peninsulas
Aegean Sea
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Region of the North Atlantic Ocean bounded by four currents forming an ocean gyre; distinguished by its characteristic brown seaweed
Sargasso Sea
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Sea between China and Japan's Kyushu and Ryukyu Islands
East China Sea
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Sea bounded by Denmark to the west and Russia to the east
Baltic Sea
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Sea between the islands of southeast Asia and Australia
Timor Sea
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Sea off the western coast of Italy, bounded by Corsica and Sardinia to the west
Tyrrhenian Sea
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Gulf connecting the Persian Gulf to the Arabian Sea
Gulf of Oman
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Sea separating the Italian Peninsula from the Balkan peninsula
Adriatic Sea
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The easternmost part of the Mediterranean Sea, bordered by Syria, Lebanon, Israel and the Gaza Strip in the east
Levantine Sea
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Gulf connecting the Red Sea to the Arabian Sea
Gulf of Aden
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Intricate network of coastal waterways of southwestern British Columbia and northwestern Washington; includes the Strait of Juan de Fuca and Puget Sound
Salish Sea
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Inland sea, entirely within the borders of Turkey, that connects the Black Sea to the Aegean Sea
Sea of Marmara
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Strait between India and Sri Lanka
Palk Strait
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Sea off the northern coast of South America, bounded to the east by the Lesser Antilles
Caribbean Sea

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