Map of the World Oceans, January 2015

90

60

FRANZ JOSEF
LAND

ARCTIC OCEAN

180

150

120

SEVERNAYA
ZEMLYA

30

60

ARCTIC OCEAN

Ellesmere
Island

ARCTIC OCEAN
QUEEN ELIZABETH

AUSTRALIA

Independent state

Bermuda

Dependency or area of special sovereignty

NOVAYA
ZEMLYA

NEW SIBERIAN ISLANDS

Laptev Sea

Kara Sea

Barents Sea

ISLANDS
East Siberian Sea

Wrangel
Island

Island / island group

Sicily / AZORES

90

120

150

Greenland Sea
Baffin
Bay

Banks
Island

Beaufort Sea

Jan Mayen

Baffin
Island

Arctic Circle (6633')

Scale 1:35,000,000
Robinson Projection
standard parallels 38N and 38S

(NORWAY)

(NORWAY)

Victoria
Island

Chukchi Sea

Svalbard

Norwegian
Sea

Arctic Circle (6633')

White Sea

Davis
Strait

U. S.

Denmark
Strait

Faroe
Islands

Gulf
of
Bothnia

(DEN.)

Hudson
Bay

60

Gulf of Alaska

Bering Sea

60

Rockall
(U.K.)

Labrador
Sea

CANADA

The Sound
UNITED

Sea of
U.S.

Okhotsk

ALEU

ISLA
TIAN

Celtic
Sea

KURIL
ISLANDS

TURKEY
1972
Line of Control

Yellow
Sea

Lianyungang

JAPAN

SOUTH
KOREA

Yokohama

Gwangyang

SAUDI
Jeddah

OMAN

D S

N
A

P
U
Y JA
(
K

Jawaharlal
Nehru
Port

Salalah

THAILAND

NORTH PACIFIC
OCEAN

(YEMEN)

Bab el Mandeb

Bengal

Laccadive
Sea

Colombo

Gulf of
Thailand

Miami/
Port Everglades

Gulf of Mexico

U.S.

(U.S.)

Windward
Passage

Yucatan
Channel
ISLAS
REVILLAGIGEDO
(MEXICO)

Johnston
Atoll

(U.K.)

Kingston

PHILIPPINES

MARSHALL
ISLANDS

FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA

Balboa

MALDIVES

Celebes Sea

Kelang
Tanjung
Pelepas

Equator

Martinique (FR.)
Curacao

Kiritimati
(Christmas Island)

Singapore

Howland Island (U.S.)

Baker Island (U.S.)

KIRIBATI

SINGAPORE

BARBADOS

Panama
Canal
PANAMA

Kingman Reef (U.S.)

Palmyra Atoll (U.S.)
Isla del Coco
(COSTA RICA)

Tropic of Cancer (2327')

Guadeloupe (FR.)

(NETH.)

Clipperton Island
(FRANCE)

EGYPT

Aruba
(NETH.)

(U.S.)

30

CANARY ISLANDS
(SP.)

Anguilla (U.K.)
Saint-Martin (FR.)
Sint Maarten (NETH.)
Saint Barthelemy (FR.)

(U.S.)

(U.S.)

Guam

(KIRIBATI)

Isla de
Malpelo
(COLOMBIA)

GALAPAGOS
ISLANDS

PENEDOS DE
SO PEDRO E SO PAULO

(ECUADOR)

(BRAZIL)

Equator

Gulf of Guinea
Equator

Annobon

(U.S.)

Sunda
Strait

(U.K.)

Cocos
(Keeling) Islands

K I R I B A T I

Wallis and
Futuna

(AUSTL.)

ier
Barr

INDIAN

SAMOA

Coral Sea
Islands

t
Grea

Gulf of
Carpentaria

(AUSTL.)

Re
ef

Rodrigues

Cook Islands
(N.Z.)

American
Samoa

FIJI

Coral
Sea

(U.S.)

VANUATU

OCEAN
Tropic of Capricorn

SOCIETY
ISLANDS
ARCHIPEL DES TUAMOTU
(Fr. Poly.)

(Fr. Poly.)

Saint
Helena

Niue
(N.Z.)

F r e n c h

Reunion
MAURITIUS

New
Caledonia
(FRANCE)

TONGA

Martin Vaz

P o l y n e s i a

Trindade

(FRANCE)

(BRAZIL)

(BRAZIL)

Santos

(2327')

A U S T R A L I A

SOUTH
AFRICA

Isla Sala y Gmez

(CHILE)

Pitcairn Islands
Brisbane

LES TUBUAI

Norfolk
Island

(Fr. Poly.)

Isla San Ambrosio

(CHILE)

Easter Island
(CHILE)

(AUSTL.)

SOU T H
ATLANTIC
OCEAN

(Fr. S. and Ant. Lands)

French Southern and Antarctic Lands

Auckland

Melbourne

Tasman Sea

le Saint-Paul
(Fr. S. and Ant. Lands)

Tasmania

(FRANCE)

NEW
ZEALAND

LES CROZET
(Fr. S. and Ant. Lands)
LES KERGUELEN
(Fr. S. and Ant. Lands)

SNARES ISLANDS
(N.Z.)

Heard Island and

McDonald Islands
(AUSTL.)

AUCKLAND
ISLANDS
(N.Z.)

te Line

(AUSTL.)

CHILE

SOU T H P A C I F I C
OCEAN

Da
International

Great Australian
Bight

le Amsterdam

KERMADEC
ISLANDS
(N.Z.)

Lord Howe
Island

Sydney

Valparaiso

ARCHIPILAGO
JUAN FERNNDEZ
(CHILE)

Buenos Aires

ARGENTINA

30

Cape Town

Cape of
Good Hope

TRISTAN DA CUNHA

Falkland Islands
(Islas Malvinas)
(administered by U.K.,
claimed by ARGENTINA)

ANTIPODES
ISLANDS
(N.Z.)

Campbell
Island
(N.Z.)

Bouvet Island
(NORWAY)

Drake
Passage

SOUTHERN OCEAN

Scotia Sea

South Georgia and

South Sandwich Islands
(administered by U.K.,
claimed by ARGENTINA)
60

SOUTH ORKNEY
ISLANDS

SOUTHERN OCEAN

SOUTHERN OCEAN
Antarctic Circle (6633')

Antarctic Circle (6633')

Amery Ice
Shelf

Bellingshausen
Sea

Suez
Canal

Major chokepoint
Major port

Weddell Sea

Amundsen Sea

Shipping lane

Ross Sea

Antarctica

180

(line weight indicates significance of route, not volume of traffic)

Ronne Ice Shelf

Twenty-one of 28 Antarctic consultative countries have made no

claims to Antarctic territory (although Russia and the United States
have reserved the right to do so) and they do not recognize the
claims of the other countries.

Ross Ice Shelf

150

SOUTH
AFRICA

BOUNTY
ISLANDS
(N.Z.)

60

120

(U.K.)

Gough Island

(AUSTL.)

90

Saint Helena, Ascension,

and Tristan da Cunha

CHATHAM
ISLANDS
(N.Z.)

Macquarie
Island

60

Tropic of Capricorn (2327')

Isla San Felx

(CHILE)

(U.K.)

Durban

PRINCE EDWARD
ISLANDS
(SOUTH AFRICA)

Ascension

BRAZIL

LES MARQUISES
(Fr. Poly.)

TUVALU

(FRANCE)

(FRANCE)

(BRAZIL)

Tokelau
(N.Z.)

Arafura
Sea

(FRANCE)

Ashmore and
Cartier Islands

(AUSTL.)

Tromelin Island

Europa
Island
(FR.)

Timor
Sea

(AUSTL.)

Mayotte

Bassas
da India
(FR.)

ARQUIPLAGO DE
FERNANDO DE NORONHA

Banda Sea

Christmas
Island

(FRANCE)

Mozambique
Channel

TIMOR-LESTE

Glorioso Islands

Juan de Nova
Island
(FR.)

Tanjung
Priok

Diego
Garcia

SEYCHELLES

Java Sea

Jarvis
Island

NAURU

British Indian
Ocean Territory

TURK.

Mediterranean Sea

Strait of
Gibraltar

British
Virgin Islands
(U.K.)

Puerto
Rico

Navassa
Island

Caribbean Sea

SPRATLY
ISLANDS

Virgin
Islands
(U.S.)

JAMAICA

(U.S.)

PALAU
M

Mona
Passage

Cayman Is.

(U.S.)

NICOBAR
ISLANDS
(INDIA)

Strait of
Malacca

NOR T H
ATLANTIC
OCEAN

Manila

South
China
Sea

Ho Chi
Minh

Andaman
Sea

SRI
LANKA

LAKSHADWEEP
(INDIA)

ANDAMAN
ISLANDS
(INDIA)

Sea

Northern
Mariana
Islands

(U.K.)

South
Louisiana

Houston

(U.S.)

Wake Island

MADEIRA
ISLANDS
(PORT.)

Bermuda

Honolulu

Philippine

Luzon
Strait

Dardanelles
Marsaxlokk

Savannah

(JAPAN)

PARACEL
ISLANDS

VIETNAM

Laem
Chabang

Bay of

Arabian
Sea

Socotra

Hainan
Dao

Luzon
Strait

Ambarli

Gioia
Tauro

Valencia

MALTA

Long Beach
Los Angeles

HAWAIIAN ISLANDS

Hong
Kong
Gulf of
Tonkin

STATES

SPAIN

AZORES (PORT.)

Hampton
Roads

Midway
Islands
Minami-tori-shima

Bosporus

Barcelona

Algeciras

Kaohsiung

INDIA

UNITED

Oakland

Shenzhen

Red
Sea

Y
Taiwan R

Guangzhou

Tropic of Cancer (2327')

OMAN

Gulf of Aden

Okinawa

Xiamen

Gulf of Oman

UNITED ARAB
EMIRATES

ARABIA

Taiwan
Strait

Strait of
Hormuz

EGYPT

Khor Fakkan
Dubai Ports

Gulf

East China
Sea

Ningbo

Bandar
Abbas

( JA PA N )

Shahid
Persian Rajai

Bay of
Biscay

New York

Osaka

Shanghai

Suez
Canal

Tokyo

Nagoya

Busan
Kobe

NAMPO - SHOTO

30

CHINA

Line of
Actual
Control

IRAN

Port
Said

Qingdao

Indian
claim

Sea of
Japan

Dalian

Le Harve

ITALY

Internatio
nal D

Tianjin

Strait of
Dover

(FRANCE)

Occupied by the SOVIET UNION in 1945,

administered by RUSSIA, claimed by JAPAN

ate Line

Yingkou

Antwerp
BELGIUM

FRANCE

Caspian
Sea

GERMANY

Zeebrugge
Guernsey (U.K.)
Jersey (U.K.)

St. Pierre
and Miquelon

Tsugaru
Strait

Hamburg
Rotterdam

NETH.

Felixstowe

Island of
Newfoundland
Gulf of
St. Lawrence

Black Sea

Baltic
Sea
Bremerhaven

KINGDOM

NDS
Vancouver

Sea of
Azov

North
Sea

150

120

90

60

200-nm EEZ (exclusive economic zone) limit

30

January 2015
Boundary representation is not necessarily authoritative.

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