Map of the World Oceans, January 2015
90
60
FRANZ JOSEF
LAND
ARCTIC OCEAN
180
150
120
SEVERNAYA
ZEMLYA
30
60
0
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 (66°33')
Scale 1:35,000,000
Robinson Projection
standard parallels 38°N and 38°S
(NORWAY)
(NORWAY)
Victoria
Island
Chukchi Sea
Svalbard
Norwegian
Sea
Arctic Circle (66°33')
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
U
)
A
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
A
Y
S
I
A
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)
L
Tropic of Cancer (23°27')
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
SÃO PEDRO E SÃO PAULO
(ECUADOR)
(BRAZIL)
Equator
Gulf of Guinea
Equator
Annobon
(U.S.)
Sunda
Strait
I
N
(U.K.)
Cocos
(Keeling) Islands
I
A
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
(23°27')
A U S T R A L I A
SOUTH
AFRICA
Isla Sala y Gómez
(CHILE)
Pitcairn Islands
Brisbane
ÎLES 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
Île Saint-Paul
(Fr. S. and Ant. Lands)
Tasmania
(FRANCE)
NEW
ZEALAND
ÎLES CROZET
(Fr. S. and Ant. Lands)
ÎLES 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
Île Amsterdam
KERMADEC
ISLANDS
(N.Z.)
Lord Howe
Island
Sydney
Valparaiso
ARCHIPIÉLAGO
JUAN FERNÁNDEZ
(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 (66°33')
Antarctic Circle (66°33')
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 (23°27')
Isla San Felíx
(CHILE)
(U.K.)
Durban
PRINCE EDWARD
ISLANDS
(SOUTH AFRICA)
Ascension
BRAZIL
ÎLES MARQUISES
(Fr. Poly.)
TUVALU
(FRANCE)
(FRANCE)
(BRAZIL)
Tokelau
(N.Z.)
Arafura
Sea
(FRANCE)
Ashmore and
Cartier Islands
(AUSTL.)
Tromelin Island
Europa
Island
(FR.)
S
Timor
Sea
(AUSTL.)
Mayotte
Bassas
da India
(FR.)
E
ARQUIPÉLAGO DE
FERNANDO DE NORONHA
Banda Sea
Christmas
Island
(FRANCE)
Mozambique
Channel
N
TIMOR-LESTE
Glorioso Islands
Juan de Nova
Island
(FR.)
O
Tanjung
Priok
Diego
Garcia
SEYCHELLES
D
Java Sea
0
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
A
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
0
Y
Taiwan R
Guangzhou
Tropic of Cancer (23°27')
OMAN
Gulf of Aden
Okinawa
Xiamen
Gulf of Oman
UNITED ARAB
EMIRATES
ARABIA
L
Taiwan
Strait
S
Strait of
Hormuz
-
EGYPT
Khor Fakkan
Dubai Ports
I
Gulf
East China
Sea
Ningbo
N
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
0
January 2015
Boundary representation is not necessarily authoritative.
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