Marine ecoregions

Cape Verde or Cabo Verde, officially the Republic of Cabo Verde, is an archipelagic country in the central Atlantic Ocean off the coast of West Africa. It consists of ten volcanic islands with a combined land area of about 4,033 square kilometres (1,557 sq mi). These islands lie between 600 and 850 kilometres west of Cap-Vert, the westernmost point of continental Africa, after which it is named. Cape Verde forms part of the Macaronesia ecoregion, along with the Azores, the Canary Islands, Madeira and the Savage Isles.

sea between Europe, Africa and Asia

seawater inlet of the Indian Ocean

Polynesian island and special territory of Chile

over 2300 km long coral reef off Australia's northeast coast, UNESCO World Heritage Site

marginal sea of the northern Indian Ocean

marginal sea between Japan, Russia, and Korea

Marginal sea in the Pacific Ocean

sea of the Indian Ocean

Marginal sea in the Pacific Ocean

island group in French Polynesia

archipelago in the Pacific Ocean

Interisland Sea in the Pacific Ocean

archipelago of French Polynesia

chain of Japanese islands that stretch southwest from Kyushu to Taiwan

The Tuamotu Archipelago or the Tuamotu Islands (, officially ) are a French Polynesian chain of just under 80 islands and atolls in the southern Pacific Ocean. They constitute the largest chain of atolls in the world, extending (from northwest to southeast) over an area roughly the size of Western Europe. Their combined land area is . This archipelago's major islands are Rangiroa, Anaa, Fakarava, Hao and Makemo.

island in the Pacific Ocean administered by Costa Rica

archipelago east of Madagascar

chain of eleven atolls and low coral islands in the central Pacific Ocean

estuary in the U.S. states of Maryland, Delaware, District of Columbia, and Virginia

cold, low-salinity eastern boundary current that flows north along the western coast of South America from southern Chile to northern Peru

archipelago covering 3,030 km² (1,170 sq mi) in the central South Pacific, forming part of Polynesia and the wider region of Oceania

wind-driven surface current that is part of the North Atlantic Gyre

broad, northward flowing ocean current that forms the eastern portion of the South Atlantic Ocean gyre

western boundary current of the southwest Indian Ocean that flows down the east coast of Africa

fishing banks off Newfoundland

World Heritage site in New Caledonia

roughly triangular area of the tropical marine waters of Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Solomon Islands and Timor-Leste

British colony in the Pacific

geopolitical name for a group of islands that forms the northern part of the Ryukyu Islands

ocean boundary current that flows along the coast of Somalia and Oman in the Western Indian Ocean

submerged bank in Mauritius

protected area in Mexico

as defined by the WWF and The Nature Conservancy