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Sentence Examples All rivers entering the North Sea between Spurn Point at the mouth of the Humber and Redcar, Cleveland. A mix of Irish Sea and Lake District ice abutted against its western margins. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel, the Irish Sea, and St George's Channel. Sea levels were lower and Ireland, like Great Britain, formed part of continental Europe. To the west is the northern Atlantic Ocean and to the south is the Celtic Sea, which lies between Ireland and Brittany, in France. The earliest known proboscideans, the clade that contains the elephants, existed about 55 million years ago around the Tethys Sea area. The WAIS is bounded by the Ross Ice Shelf, the Ronne Ice Shelf, and outlet glaciers that drain into the Amundsen Sea. It is bordered on the southeast and east by the Mediterranean Sea, and on the north, west, and southwest by the Atlantic Ocean. Its southern tip is very close to the northwest coast of Africa, separated from it by the Strait of Gibraltar and the Mediterranean Sea. At the same time, Northern European artefact types reached Eastern Great Britain in large quantities from across the North Sea. Monumental domes began to appear in the 1st century BC in Rome and the provinces around the Mediterranean Sea. For good nautical fun, nothing beats the blizzardy, icebergy waters of the North Sea. Once established they had the advantage of easy communication with continental territories in Europe via the North Sea or the Channel. Around 890, Wulfstan of Hedeby undertook a journey from Hedeby on Jutland along the Baltic Sea to the Prussian trading town of Truso. Since Harthacnut was already on the Danish throne, this reunited the North Sea Empire. Norway has an extensive coastline, facing the North Atlantic Ocean and the Barents Sea. To the north, west and south, Norway is bordered by the Barents Sea, the Norwegian Sea, the North Sea, and Skagerrak. Between 1966 and 2013, Norwegian companies drilled 5085 oil wells, mostly in the North Sea. Some scholars, however, dispute the notion that the Essenes wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls. By autumn 1347, the plague reached Alexandria in Egypt, probably through the port's trade with Constantinople, and ports on the Black Sea. Show More Sentences The epidemic reached Constantinople in the late spring of 1347, through Genoese merchants trading in the Black Sea. The professional head of the Naval Service is the First Sea Lord, an admiral and member of the Defence Council of the United Kingdom. The Navy's Northern Patrol closed off access to the North Sea, while the Dover Patrol closed off access to the English Channel. Within the combined command, the Second Sea Lord continues to act as the Principal Personnel Officer. Joanna of Castile and Philip immediately added to their titles the kingdoms of Indies, Islands and Mainland of the Ocean Sea. Churchill was eventually told by the First Sea Lord Admiral Battenberg that the king's decision must be treated as final. Another was repelling a Japanese invasion of Port Moresby in New Guinea during the Battle of the Coral Sea. Navy vessels saw action in the British Channel, the North Sea and the Mediterranean, generally as part of Royal Navy units. The ABDA fleet finally encountered the Japanese surface fleet at the Battle of Java Sea, at which Doorman gave the order to engage. Sea fish include dogfish, cod, sole, pollock and bass, as well as mussels, crab and oysters along the coast. The English Channel and the southern North Sea are the busiest seaways in the world. The idea of building a tunnel under the Irish Sea has been raised since 1895, when it was first investigated. It extends southward into the Indian Ocean with the Arabian Sea to the southwest and the Bay of Bengal to the southeast. A crucial consideration was transportation, achieved on water via the Chesterfield Canal, the North Sea, and the rivers Trent and Thames. The British economy benefitted in the first Thatcher ministry by tax income from North Sea oil coming on stream. In western and central Yorkshire, the many rivers empty their waters into the River Ouse, which reaches the North Sea via the Humber Estuary. The western Pennines are served by the River Ribble, which drains westwards into the Irish Sea close to Lytham St Annes. Deep Sea Electronics make generator controllers on the Hunmanby Industrial Estate, off the A165, south of Filey. Since Roman times, the nearby city of Chester on the River Dee had been the region's principal port on the Irish Sea. It rises at Thames Head in Gloucestershire, and flows into the North Sea via the Thames Estuary. Show More Sentences Here it entered a substantial freshwater lake in the southern North Sea basin. There is also a river Tyne that rises in Midlothian in Scotland and flows through East Lothian into the North Sea. The river then discharges into the Bristol Channel which in turn discharges into the Celtic Sea and the wider Atlantic Ocean. Sea levels had dropped coincident with the ice age, but slowly recovered over the course of the Silurian and Devonian. The burial of algae and bacteria below the mud of the sea floor during this time resulted in the formation of North Sea oil and natural gas. One passes into the Caribbean Sea, while a second, the Antilles Current, flows north and east of the West Indies. Offshore oil and gas from North Sea and Irish Sea, and more recently offshore wind, are significant components in Northern England's energy mix. The Dutch area of the North Sea followed through with onshore and offshore gas exploration, and well creation. It is located on the banks of the River Ribble, close to its entry into the Irish Sea. The Marina is just north of the River Ribble which enters into the east of the Irish Sea. Newton was one of many people who lost heavily when the South Sea Company collapsed. Here, on the Island Below the Sea, the loa have their permanent residence, their primal location. This secured their supremacy in the Baltic Sea, which remained throughout the Viking Age. On 1 July 2007, the reconstructed Viking ship Skuldelev 2, renamed Sea Stallion, began a journey from Roskilde to Dublin. It is also common near the southern Baltic and North Sea coasts, and then successively decreasing further to the south geographically. After defeating the Macedonian and Seleucid Empires in the 2nd century BC, the Romans became the dominant people of the Mediterranean Sea. In 2012, the two countries resolved their maritime boundary disputes at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea. The waters of the Caribbean Sea host large, migratory schools of fish, turtles, and coral reef formations. The region sits in the line of several major shipping routes with the Panama Canal connecting the western Caribbean Sea with the Pacific Ocean. Sea water was pumped into shallow ponds, producing coarse salt when the water evaporated. Show More Sentences Frisian is spoken among half a million people who live on the southern fringes of the North Sea in the Netherlands, Germany, and Denmark. In 1891, German businessman Albert Ballin sailed the ship Augusta Victoria from Hamburg into the Mediterranean Sea. The north coast on the Celtic Sea, part of the Atlantic Ocean, is more exposed and therefore has a wilder nature. The Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia, and Singapore, have integral rivers that flow into the South China Sea. In Pakistan, the provinces of Sindh and Balochistan border the Arabian Sea. The boundaries are along the Irish Sea to Morecambe Bay in the west, and along the Pennines to the east. Sea and Sardinia, a book that describes a brief journey undertaken in January 1921, is a recreation of the life of the inhabitants of Sardinia. After two commercially successful English oratorios Esther and Deborah, he was able to invest again in the South Sea Company. In 1721, the economic disaster of the South Sea Bubble allowed Walpole to rise to the pinnacle of government. Leigh became pregnant in 1956 and withdrew from the production of Coward's comedy South Sea Bubble. Mary's Star of the Sea Church for Leiter's wedding and Stephano's House 707 South Street for his house and patio. Sea stacks and pinnacles, such as Old Harry Rocks at Handfast Point, have been formed by erosion of the chalk cliffs. Aislabie was a principal sponsor of the South Sea Company scheme, the bill for which was promoted by him personally. The Sea Cadets hold an annual celebration of the Battle of Trafalgar victory along the square. After crossing the Tasman Sea to New Zealand, they lost both Tests against New Zealand with a team depleted with injuries. Sea birds swooped and dived over the surf and called mewingly to one another. Andrew be conjoined, in such Manner as her Majesty shall think fit, and used in all Flags, Banners, Standards and Ensigns, both at Sea and Land. Genoa took advantage of this opportunity to expand into the Black Sea and Crimea. At the end of the 14th century the colony of Samastri was established in the Black Sea and Cyprus was granted to the Republic. Genoa and Pisa became the only states with trading rights in the Black Sea. Show More Sentences Rising Ottoman power also cut into the Genoese emporia in the Aegean, and the Black Sea trade was reduced. This species grows in the Mediterranean Sea region, with Portugal, Spain, Algeria, and Morocco producing most of the world's supply. They comprise the Channel Island bailiwicks of Jersey and Guernsey, and the Isle of Man in the Irish Sea. The unified kingdom of Denmark emerged in the 10th century as a proficient seafaring nation in the struggle for control of the Baltic Sea. The island of Bornholm is located east of the rest of the country, in the Baltic Sea. The North Sea and the Baltic Sea are intertwined by various, international ferry links. Sea passenger and freight transport is served by the coastal ferries operated by Arctic Umiaq Line. The North Atlantic Ocean lies to the north of the islands, and the Caribbean Sea lies to the south. To the east, the Irish Sea connects to the Atlantic Ocean via St George's Channel and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. Ireland has produced champion horses such as Galileo, Montjeu, and Sea the Stars. He missed, and the chunk of earth landed in the Irish Sea, thus creating the island. The Crown dependencies are the Isle of Man in the Irish Sea and the Bailiwicks of Jersey and Guernsey in the English Channel. A Stoplight Parrotfish in Princess Alexandra Land and Sea National Park, Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands. This principally refers to the North Sea, where there are large resources of oil and gas. The North Sea is also bordered by Norway, Denmark, Germany and The Netherlands. The discovery of North Sea oil off the east coast of Scotland in 1970 further invigorated the debate over Scottish independence. The Welsh Federation of Sea Anglers is based in Bargoed, Caerphilly County Borough. The revenue from North Sea oil has been used to support current expenditure, rather than creating a sovereign oil fund. Migration from the Black Sea area into Europe started some 45,000 years ago, probably along the Danubian corridor. However, it may be that these represent campaigns by kings of Alt Clut, whose kingdom was certainly part of the region linked by the Irish Sea. Show More Sentences The South Sea Company was a private business corporation set up in London ostensibly to grant trade monopolies in South America. Constantly raiding the Adriatic Sea, the Illyrians caused many conflicts with the Roman Republic. Vikings also attacked the coasts of North Africa and Italy and plundered all the coasts of the Baltic Sea. Some Vikings ascending the rivers of Eastern Europe as far as the Black Sea and Persia. Their raids in the Adriatic increased rapidly, until the whole Sea was no longer safe for travel. In the 12th century the coasts of western Scandinavia were plundered by Curonians and Oeselians from the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea. Until about 1440, maritime trade in both the North Sea and the Baltic Sea was seriously in danger of attack by the pirates. They would be used as coast guards, or sent on recon missions to deal with Arab piracy in the Arabian Sea. As a young man, Walpole had bought shares in the South Sea Company, which monopolized trade with Spain, the Caribbean and South America. Under the guidance of Walpole, Parliament attempted to deal with the financial crisis brought on by the South Sea Bubble. Many traverse the Mounth, a spur of mountainous land that extends from the higher inland range to the North Sea slightly north of Stonehaven. Across the Sahara, through the Red Sea, from the Indian Ocean ports and across the Atlantic. Samakh and Tiberias on the Sea of Galilee, were captured on the way northwards to Damascus. Selim I established Ottoman rule in Egypt, and created a naval presence on the Red Sea. In addition, the Empire became a dominant naval force, controlling much of the Mediterranean Sea. Meanwhile, the Polish Navy was active in the protection of convoys in the North Sea and Atlantic Ocean. The lake districts form part of the Baltic Ridge, a series of moraine belts along the southern shore of the Baltic Sea. The Vistula and the Oder flow into the Baltic Sea, as do numerous smaller rivers in Pomerania. The eastern Beskids are also the source of some streams that drain through the Dniester to the Black Sea. Influenced by the Atlantic Ocean from the west, Baltic Sea from the north, and Mediterranean Sea from the south. Show More Sentences The RAF and Royal Navy's Westland Sea King fleets, after over 30 years of service, were retired. The loss of these barges may have contributed to Hitler's decision to postpone Operation Sea Lion indefinitely. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast. The fleet was led by the carriers USS Coral Sea, USS Randolph, later reinforced by USS Forrestal. The fiscal and monetary squeeze, combined with the North Sea oil effect, appreciated the real exchange rate. The United States Navy recognizes those who complete deployments with a special decoration known as the Sea Service Deployment Ribbon. The North Sea coast of England is mainly flat and sandy with many dunes and is similar to coastlines across the sea in the Netherlands. The English North Sea coast is an important area of bird life and is a habitat for many shore and wading birds. The English Irish Sea coast hosts two important geographic areas, Morecambe Bay, a large bay, and the Furness and Walney Island areas. The English section of the Irish Sea coast ends at the border with Scotland in the Solway Firth. This section includes all rivers entering the Irish Sea from England between the Scottish border and the Welsh border. Though a section of it passes through England, it passes into Wales once again before discharging into the Irish Sea via the Dee estuary. For other rivers entering the Irish Sea and Cardigan Bay from Wales, see List of rivers of Wales. All rivers discharging into The Wash and the North Sea between King's Lynn and Cleethorpes at the mouth of The Humber. Using three-dimensional seismic and well data from the northern North Sea, we describe a large body of sand and interpret it as extrusive. Capelin are widely distributed in the Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, and Sea Okhotsk, and along the Kamchatka Peninsula. The Euxine Sea is conveniently situated for trade, by the communication it has both with Asia and Europe. How dis-interested are they in all Worldly matters, since they fling their Wealth and Riches into the Sea. All the Sea Islands have what are called dividings, shoal areas behind the barrier islands where the tides meet and divide. Wee heard the King was solacing at the Caspian Sea, whither now wee are travelling. Till then let us keepe an Ephemerides or day-journey. Show More Sentences The Irish Sea lies northwest of England and the Celtic Sea lies to the southwest. England is separated from continental Europe by the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south. From 1984, the economy was helped by the inflow of substantial North Sea oil revenues. The Atlantic Ocean borders the west coast and the North Sea is to the east. It is bordered by England to the east, the Irish Sea to the north and west, and the Bristol Channel to the south. At that time sea levels were much lower than today, and the shallower parts of what is now the North Sea were dry land. Doggerland was submerged by the North Sea and, by 8,000 BP, the British Peninsula had become an island. Anglesey is the largest island within the Irish Sea, followed by the Isle of Man. To the north, the connection is through the North Channel between Scotland and Northern Ireland and the Malin Sea. The Irish Sea has coasts on the Republic of Ireland, all four constituent countries of the United Kingdom, and the Isle of Man. There are quite regular records of live and stranded leatherback turtle in and around the Irish Sea. Whales, dolphins and porpoises all frequent the Irish Sea, but knowledge of how many there may be and where they go is somewhat sketchy. The common or harbour seal and the grey seal are both resident in the Irish Sea. The highest concentration is found in the eastern Irish Sea in sediment banks lying parallel to the Cumbrian coast. The consumption of seafood harvested from the Irish Sea is the main pathway for exposure of humans to radioactivity. The Cardigan Bay Basin forms a continuation into British waters of Ireland's North Celtic Sea Basin, which has two producing gas fields. The Celtic Sea takes its name from the Celtic heritage of the bounding lands to the north and east. There are no land features to divide the Celtic Sea from the open Atlantic Ocean to the south and west. The seabed under the Celtic Sea is called the Celtic Shelf, part of the continental shelf of Europe. Oil and gas exploration in the Celtic Sea has had limited commercial success. Show More Sentences The North Sea is a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean located between Great Britain, Scandinavia, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, and France. The North Sea has long been the site of important European shipping lanes as well as a major fishery. As Germany's only outlet to the ocean, the North Sea continued to be strategically important through both World Wars. The coast of the North Sea presents a diversity of geological and geographical features. In the southwest, beyond the Straits of Dover, the North Sea becomes the English Channel connecting to the Atlantic Ocean. Around the edges of the North Sea are sizeable islands and archipelagos, including Shetland, Orkney, and the Frisian Islands. The North Sea receives freshwater from a number of European continental watersheds, as well as the British Isles. A large part of the European drainage basin empties into the North Sea including water from the Baltic Sea. Around 185 million people live in the catchment area of the rivers discharging into the North Sea encompassing some highly industrialized areas. The North Sea located on the continental shelf has different waves from those in deep ocean water. In the North Sea there are two amphidromic systems and a third incomplete amphidromic system. Some of the energy from this wave travels through the English Channel into the North Sea. The eastern and western coasts of the North Sea are jagged, formed by glaciers during the ice ages. In 1362, the Second Marcellus Flood, also known as the Grote Manndrenke, hit the entire southern coast of the North Sea. In the 20th century, the North Sea flood of 1953 flooded several nations' coasts and cost more than 2,000 lives. Though rare, the North Sea has been the site of a number of historically documented tsunamis. The Storegga Slides were a series of underwater landslides, in which a piece of the Norwegian continental shelf slid into the Norwegian Sea. Shallow epicontinental seas like the current North Sea have since long existed on the European continental shelf. This precursor of the current North Sea has grown and shrunk with the rise and fall of the eustatic sea level during geologic time. Every time the ice sheet reached its greatest extent, the North Sea became almost completely dry. Show More Sentences Tens of millions of birds make use of the North Sea for breeding, feeding, or migratory stopovers every year. Plant species in the North Sea include species of wrack, among them bladder wrack, knotted wrack, and serrated wrack. Eelgrass, formerly common in the entirety of the Wadden Sea, was nearly wiped out in the 20th century by a disease. Flamingos and pelicans were once found along the southern shores of the North Sea, but became extinct over the 2nd millennium. Many areas have access to the North Sea with its long coastline and European rivers that empty into it. The British did not face a challenge to their dominance of the North Sea until the 20th century. Tensions in the North Sea were again heightened in 1904 by the Dogger Bank incident. World War I also brought the first extensive use of submarine warfare, and a number of submarine actions occurred in the North Sea. In the aftermath of the war, hundreds of thousands of tons of chemical weapons were disposed of by being dumped in the North Sea. Fishing in the North Sea is concentrated in the southern part of the coastal waters. There have also been proposals for a transnational power grid in the North Sea to connect new offshore wind farms. The beaches and coastal waters of the North Sea are destinations for tourists. The North Sea coast of the United Kingdom has tourist destinations with beach resorts and golf courses. The climatic conditions on the North Sea coast have been claimed to be healthful. As early as the 19th century, travellers used their stays on the North Sea coast as curative and restorative vacations. The North Sea is important for marine transport and its shipping lanes are among the busiest in the world. During this period the North Sea and almost all of the British Isles were covered by ice. In the power vacuum left by the retreating Romans, the Germanic Angles, Saxons, and Jutes began the next great migration across the North Sea. With the rise of William the Conqueror the North Sea and Channel began to lose some of their importance. The North Channel, Irish Sea, St George's Channel and Celtic Sea separate the island from the island of Ireland to its west. Show More Sentences It connects to the Arctic Ocean through the Denmark Strait, Greenland Sea, Norwegian Sea and Barents Sea. From October to June the surface is usually covered with sea ice in the Labrador Sea, Denmark Strait, and Baltic Sea. The Irish Sea Glacier terminated just to the north of the Isles of Scilly during the last Ice Age. The majority of scholars believe that the Anglii lived on the coasts of the Baltic Sea, probably in the southern part of the Jutish peninsula. The arrival of the nomadic Huns along the Black Sea corridor in AD 375 further accelerated the Goth's exodus across the Roman border. Janszoon then crossed the eastern end of the Arafura Sea, without seeing the Torres Strait, into the Gulf of Carpentaria. Subsequently, Stadukhin set off south in 1651 and discovered Penzhin Bay on the northern coast of the Okhotsk Sea. London became the principal North Sea port, with migrants arriving from England and abroad. The Thames Barrier was completed in the 1980s to protect London against tidal surges from the North Sea. North West England is bounded to the east by the Peak District and the Pennines and to the west by the Irish Sea. This amounts to more energy than the UK has ever extracted as gas from the North Sea oilfield. At its greatest extent, Northumbria stretched from the Irish Sea to the North Sea and from Edinburgh down to Hallamshire in South Yorkshire. In western and central Yorkshire the many rivers empty their waters into the River Ouse which reaches the North Sea via the Humber Estuary. The western Pennines are served by the River Ribble which drains westwards into the Irish Sea close to Lytham St Annes. As a result of the expulsion of the Flemings from England in 1303, he gained the support of a major naval power in the North Sea. The coastal cities on the Tyrrhenian Sea departed from Byzantine allegiance. By this definition, the Danish Straits are part of the entrance, but the Bay of Mecklenburg and the Bay of Kiel are parts of the Baltic Sea. The Kattegat and the southwestern Baltic Sea are well oxygenated and have a rich biology. The Baltic Sea was known in ancient sources as Mare Suebicum or Mare Germanicum. At the time of the Roman Empire, the Baltic Sea was known as the Mare Suebicum or Mare Sarmaticum. Show More Sentences The Norse also used the rivers of Russia for trade routes, finding their way eventually to the Black Sea and southern Russia. First mentions of amber deposits on the South coast of the Baltic Sea date back to the 12th century. The Teutonic Order gained control over parts of the southern and eastern shore of the Baltic Sea, where they set up their monastic state. In 1945, the Baltic Sea became a mass grave for retreating soldiers and refugees on torpedoed troop transports. Rotting bottles leak Lost and other substances, thus slowly poisoning a substantial part of the Baltic Sea. From 1872, there exist regular and reliable records of water levels in the Baltic Sea. The northern part of the Baltic Sea is known as the Gulf of Bothnia, of which the northernmost part is the Bay of Bothnia or Bothnian Bay. The Northern Baltic Sea lies between the Stockholm area, southwestern Finland and Estonia. The Western and Eastern Gotland Basins form the major parts of the Central Baltic Sea or Baltic proper. The Bothnian Sea, the basin south of Kvarken, freezes on average in late February. This description meant that the whole of the Baltic Sea was covered with ice. It is known that since 1720, the Baltic Sea has frozen over entirely a total of 20 times. An important source of salty water are infrequent inflows of North Sea water into the Baltic. However, tidal currents occur in narrow passages in the western parts of the Baltic Sea. The significant wave height is generally much lower than that of the North Sea. These two factors limit many species of animals and plants to a relatively narrow region of the Baltic Sea. The Baltic Sea somewhat resembles a riverbed, with two tributaries, the Gulf of Finland and Gulf of Bothnia. The tourism industry surrounding the Baltic Sea is naturally concerned about oil pollution. The Convention covers the whole of the Baltic Sea area, including inland waters and the water of the sea itself, as well as the seabed. They were soon mentioned as raiding and settling in many North Sea areas, as well as pushing south inland towards the Franks. Show More Sentences By doing so, he connected the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea and formed the Strait of Gibraltar. Nor iron bands aboard The Pontic Sea by their huge navy cast. The unserviceable Sea Hurricane airframe on board was placed on deck for blast trials in a low angle shoot and sustained no damage while in the centre of the deck. Sea shanties are a type of work song traditionally sung by sailors. Bulgaria, which was founded around 680, at its height reached from Budapest to the Black Sea and from the Dnieper River in modern Ukraine to the Adriatic Sea. Xerxes whipped the Sea, and writ a cartell of defiance to the hill Athos. Thus the Baltic Sea has long been crossed by much merchant shipping. In December, 1988, a group of debased silver diobols, of the types found at the Black Sea settlements of Mesembria and Apollonia Pontika, appeared in the ancient coin market. The major power around the Baltic Sea was the Hanseatic League, a commercial confederation of city states that traded from Western Europe to Russia. Eventually, it was Sweden that virtually encompassed the Baltic Sea. After 1920 Poland was connected to the Baltic Sea by the Polish Corridor and enlarged the port of Gdynia in rivalry with the port of the Free City of Danzig. Which Sea, though it will yeeld good plenty of such like presidents, and we may finde them in authenticall records of Histories, yet I content my selfe with this one. Once in possession of Istanbul, the Russians would control the geostrategic straits of the Bosporus and the Dardanelles linking Russia's Black Sea ports to the Mediterranean. They usually controlled only a small section of the Balkan Peninsula near Constantinople, the city itself, and some coastal lands on the Black Sea and around the Aegean Sea. The 1914 collection by Frank Thomas Bullen, Songs of Sea Labour, differed from the work of writers such as Masefield in having a more practical, rather than romantic, tone. England also has shores on the Irish Sea, North Sea and Atlantic Ocean. The Port of Liverpool is one of Britain's largest ports, providing passenger ferry services across the Irish Sea to Belfast, Dublin and the Isle of Man. Maritime borders represent the jurisdictional borders of a maritime nation and are recognized by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. The American folk revival group The Almanac Singers were recruited by Alan Lomax to record several shanties for the 1941 album Deep Sea Chanteys and Whaling Ballads. The west of Scotland is usually warmer than the east, owing to the influence of Atlantic ocean currents and the colder surface temperatures of the North Sea. Show More Sentences The Gulf of Finland connects the Baltic Sea with Saint Petersburg. The flood threat here comes from high tides and strong winds from the North Sea, and the Thames Barrier was built in the 1980s to protect London from this risk. A medley of sea songs performed by concert orchestra, Sir Henry Wood's Fantasia on British Sea Songs, is a popular component of the Last Night of the Proms in Britain. It is connected to the Celtic Sea in the south by St George's Channel, and to the Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland in the north by the North Channel. At the height of the last ice age, around 20,000 BC, Britain was connected to mainland Europe by a large expanse of land known as Doggerland in the southern North Sea basin. The Irish Sea has undergone a series of dramatic changes over the last 20,000 years as the last glacial period ended and was replaced by warmer conditions. On the night of 31 January, the North Sea flood of 1953 devastated the island taking the lives of 58 islanders, and led to the temporary evacuation of the 13,000 residents. The southern end is linked to the Atlantic through the St George's Channel between south eastern Ireland and Pembrokeshire in Wales, and the Celtic Sea. A ferry crossing used to run between Swansea and Cork, but given the geographical limits defined above, this route crosses the Celtic Sea rather than the Irish Sea. The Strategy aims to reinforce cooperation within the Baltic Sea Region, to address challenges together, and to promote balanced development in the Region. The Irish Sea lies between the islands of Ireland and Great Britain. Parts of the bed of the Irish Sea are very rich in wildlife. In recent years prior to 2011, the Bothnian Bay and the Bothnian Sea were frozen with solid ice near the Baltic coast and dense floating ice far from it. Loggerhead turtle, Ridley sea turtle and green turtle are found very occasionally in the Irish Sea but are generally unwell or dead when discovered. The estuaries of the Irish Sea are of international importance for birds. Of these two seals, only the Baltic ringed seal suffers when there is not adequate ice in the Baltic Sea, as it feeds its young only while on ice. It is surrounded by the South China Sea on the east, south, and west, and borders the Guangdong city of Shenzhen to the north over the Sham Chun River. Whilst concentrations have declined in line with the reduction in discharges they are markedly higher in the eastern Irish Sea compared to the western areas. Finally it flows between South Shields and Tynemouth into the North Sea. At one of these, during the triennial Norfolk and Norwich Festival in October 1924, he heard Frank Bridge's orchestral poem The Sea, conducted by the composer. Show More Sentences These climates occur near the rimlands of the Mediterranean Sea, in western Australia, in California, and in the southernmost areas of South Africa. The flow of fresh water into the sea from approximately two hundred rivers and the introduction of salt from the South builds up a gradient of salinity in the Baltic Sea. Several potential Irish Sea tunnel projects have been proposed, including one between Dublin and Holyhead put forward in 1997 by the British engineering firm Symonds. In fiction, the Island of Sodor, a fictional island from Wilbert Awdry's The Railway Series and the Thomas and Friends children's TV show, is located in the Irish Sea. Since the 1960s there have been stereophonic recordings of Hugh the Drover, Sir John in Love, Riders to the Sea, The Poisoned Kiss, and The Pilgrim's Progress. During the period the North Sea formed, Britain was uplifted. Geological surveys show that before the Pleistocene, instead of the Baltic Sea, there was a wide plain around a great river paleontologists call the Eridanos. However, several marine species have populations in the Baltic Sea adapted to the low salinity, such as the Baltic Sea herring which is smaller than the Atlantic herring. Now extinct Atlantic grey whales and eastern population of North Atlantic right whales that is facing functional extinction once migrated into Baltic Sea. Strandings of Leatherback turtles have been recorded in Baltic Sea, too. Subsequently, the Hanseatic League, the Netherlands, and the British each sought to dominate the North Sea and thus the access to the markets and resources of the world. The Baltic Sea is the main trade route for export of Russian petroleum. This is all but gone and the major primary industry is North Sea oil. Much shipbuilding is carried out in the shipyards around the Baltic Sea. In the east, it connects to the Baltic Sea via the Skagerrak and Kattegat, narrow straits that separate Denmark from Norway and Sweden respectively. There are several cargo and passenger ferries that operate on the Baltic Sea, such as Scandlines, Silja Line, Polferries, the Viking Line, Tallink, and Superfast Ferries. The English Irish Sea coast is an important area of estuaries and bird life, with Wirral being a peninsula bounded by two rivers, the River Dee and the River Mersey. Sea fishing is an important industry for Northern coastal towns. Production of For Your Eyes Only began on 2 September 1980 in the North Sea, with three days shooting exterior scenes for the scenes involving the St Georges spyboat. This feature has produced the finest fishing location of the North Sea. Find more words! 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