Red Sea
Click on image to view larger image
|
|
|
Photographer:
|
Teodor
(see this users gallery)
|
|
Views:
|
11115
|
|
Date:
|
Wed Oct 23, 2002
|
|
Description:
|
The Red Sea (Arabic al-Bahr al-Ahmar; Hebrew Yam Suf; Tigrigna QeyH baHri) is a gulf or basin of the Indian Ocean between Africa and Asia. The connection to the ocean is in the south through the Bab el Mandeb sound and the Gulf of Aden. In the north is the Sinai Peninsula, the Gulf of Aqaba and the Gulf of Suez (leading to the Suez Canal). The sea is roughly 1,200 miles (1,900 km) long and at its widest is over 190 miles (300 km). The sea floor has a maximum depth of 8,200 feet (2,500 m) in the central median trench and an average depth of 1,640 feet (500 m), but it also has extensive shallow shelves, noted for their marine life and corals. The sea has a surface area of roughly 174,000 square miles (450,000 km˛). The sea is the habitat of over 1,000 invertebrate species and 200 soft and hard corals. The sea occupies a part of the Great Rift Valley. The Red Sea is the world's most northern tropical sea.
Text source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_sea
|
|
Keywords:
|
Red Sea
|
|
|
