Water bodies

Water bodies

Referring to any significant accumulation of water usually on planet earth but also on other planetary bodies.

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Banda Sea

Water bodies; Seas

The Banda Sea is the sea of the South Moluccas in Indonesia, technically part of the Pacific Ocean but separated from it by hundreds of islands, as well as the Halmahera and ...

Barents Sea

Water bodies; Seas

The Barents Sea is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean, located north of Norway and Russia. It is a rather deep shelf sea (average depth 760 feet (230 m) and maximum depth ...

Bay of Bengal

Water bodies; Seas

The Bay of Bengal the largest bay in the world, forms the northeastern part of the Indian Ocean. It resembles a triangle in shape, and is bordered by Bangladesh and the Indian ...

Beaufort Sea

Water bodies; Seas

The Beaufort Sea is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean, located north of the Northwest Territories, the Yukon, and Alaska and west of Canada's Arctic islands. The sea is named ...

Bellingshausen Sea

Water bodies; Seas

The Bellingshausen Sea is an area along the west side of the Antarctic Peninsula, west of Alexander Island, east of Cape Flying Fish on Thurston Island, and south of Peter I ...

Bering Sea

Water bodies; Seas

The Bering Sea is a marginal sea of the Pacific Ocean. It comprises a deep water basin, which then rises through a narrow slope into the shallower water above the continental ...

Bismarck Sea

Water bodies; Seas

The Bismarck Sea lies in the southwestern Pacific Ocean to the north of the island of Papua New Guinea and to the south of the Bismarck Archipelago and Admiralty Islands. Like ...