Seas questions

The average depth of the Baltic Sea is 52.3 meters. This sea is divided in 3 large basins: Gulf of Bothnia with the maximal depth of 294 meters, Gotland Basin - 459 meters deep in its lowest point and the Bornholm Basin with the depth of 105 meters.

Knivskjellodden is a peninsula located in Nordkapp Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The nearby Kinnarodden on the Nordkinn Peninsula is the northernmost point on the mainland. Travel agencies that organize trips for unaware tourists often advertise the North Cape as the northern extremity of Europe, but this is not true as the Knivskjellodden is 1,450 metres (4,760 ft) further north

Constanța is the oldest continuously inhabited city in Romania. It was founded around 600 BC. The city is located in the Northern Dobruja region of Romania, on the Black Sea coast. It is the capital of Constanța County and the largest city in the region of Dobruja.

The Transpolar Drift Stream is a major ocean current of the Arctic Ocean, transporting sea ice from the Laptev Sea and the East Siberian Sea towards Fram Strait. Drift experiments with ships like Fram or Tara showed that the drift takes between two and four years. It has been cited as a major factor in the North Atlantic Oscillation and Arctic oscillation atmospheric changes.

Cosmonauts Sea was a proposed sea name as part of the Southern Ocean. It would have an area of 699,000 square kilometres. It would be bordered by, a Cooperation Sea to the east, and to the west a Riiser-Larsen Sea. The Cosmonauts Sea was named in 1962 by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in honor of the world's first cosmonauts and the beginning of manned space exploration era.

The Lofoten Islands belong to Norway and form an archipelago 300 km to the north of the Arctic Circle. Lofoten (Old Norse: Lófót) was the original name of the island Vestvågøya. The first element is ló (i.e., "lynx") and the last element is derived from Norse fótr (i.e., "foot"), as the shape of the island must have been compared with that of a lynx's foot.

1 Monaco 4.1Km 2 Bosnia and Herzegovina 20Km 3 Tuvalu 24 Km 4 Jordan 26 Km 5 Nauru 30 Km 6 Congo, Democratic Republic 37Km

The Gulfof Bothnia has an area of 117,000 km², the others are much smaller. The Gulf of Finland 30000 km² and the Gulf of Riga 17,000 km²

The name "Gibraltar" is the Spanish derivation of the Arabic name Jabal Ṭariq, meaning "Mountain of Ṭariq". Following a raid in 710, a predominately Berber army under the command of Tariq ibn Ziyad crossed from North Africa in April 711 and landed somewhere in the vicinity of Gibraltar (though most likely not in the bay or at the Rock itself). Tariq's expedition led to the Islamic conquest of most of the Iberian peninsula.

Princes' Islands are islands in the Sea of Marmara on the Anatolian side of Istanbul. A group of ten islands and two small rock reefs. In the Byzantine times, they served as the place of exile of princes, priests and princesses. During the Ottoman Empire, members of the Sultan's family were sent here. In ancient times they were called Demonnesoi - People's Islands, in Byzantium - Papadanisia - Princes' Islands.