History UsefulNotes / TheSevenSeas

* Still important in international trade. According to Wiki/TheOtherWiki a quarter of all of the world's trade pass through the Strait of Malacca each year.

* [[MakingASplash Boxing Day]] [[GiantWallOfWateryDoom Tsunami of 2006]]

* In the West, anyway. The [[WhenItRainsItPours Monsoon]] used to aid in navigation on the "Maritime Silk Road" between the China and Europe and feeds a billion people (give or take) across Southern Asia.

* Still important in international trade. According to TheOtherWiki a quarter of all of the world's trade pass through the Strait of Malacca each year.

* Also, the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_stream Gulf Stream]] current bringing warm water from the Caribbean east across the Atlantic maybe helping to keep Europe from freezing. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutdown_of_thermohaline_circulation There's a theory]] that climate change may shut this down, to undesirable effects most recently grossly exaggerated in TheDayAfterTomorrow. In RealLife, the effects of this, while not as severe as in the movie, are already observable in Scandinavia.

The location of many major UsefulNotes/WorldWarII campaigns and the Literature/MutinyOnTheBounty.

* Also where the {{Titanic}} made its only voyage.

The location of many major UsefulNotes/WorldWarII campaigns and the MutinyOnTheBounty.

A major trade sea of Northern Europe. The Hanseatic League of medieval merchants operated here. This sea was very important for the Russian Empire since the times of Peter the Great, who built St.Petersburg as a Baltic port. Many Ruritanias were/are located on the coast of this sea.

* Scene of the Battle of the Atlantic in WorldWarTwo, where the Germans tried to stop North American supplies getting to the UK.

* Also, many of the islands were used for nuclear testing by the US during the ColdWar.
* The RussoJapaneseWar was fought here.

The location of many major WorldWarII campaigns and the MutinyOnTheBounty.

Best known by Greco-Roman culture: to them it was the centre of the world, and that is in fact what the name means (''Medi-Terra'', world's middle).

* Also, the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_stream Gulf Stream]] current bringing warm water from the Caribbean east across the Atlantic maybe helping to keep Europe from freezing. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutdown_of_thermohaline_circulation There's a theory]] that climate change may shut this down, to undesirable effects most recently grossly exaggerated in TheDayAfterTomorrow.

Also known for not much, except TheFalklandIslands. Cape Horn, the Atlantic-Pacific crossing point, is known for seriously strong trade winds and is considered the toughest part of any global circumnavigation by boat.

Known as one of the former homes of {{Pirates}}. Has hurricanes, bananas and historically {{Banana Republic}}s. Many nations of TheCommonwealth are found here.

Largely covered in ice for much of the year, there is no real permanent land mass here. The main stuff you find here are submarines under the ice pack.

Ice-bound Arctic seas along the northern coast of Russia. Tundra shores, icy glacial islands separating them. Russian submarines under the ice, polar bears, [[EskimoLand native peoples]] and crusty Russian miners (historically also Gulag inmates) at the shores. In the Soviet era, they also featured giant atomic icebreaker ships leading supply convoys from west to east and back.

Ice-bound Arctic seas along the northern coast of Russia. Tundra shores, icy glacial islands separating them. Russian submarines under the ice, [[EskimoLand native peoples]] and crusty Russian miners (historically also Gulag inmates) at the shores. In the Soviet era, they also featured giant atomic icebreaker ships leading supply convoys from west to east and back.

Ice-bound Arctic seas along the northern coast of Russia. Tundra shores, icy glacial islands separating them. Russian submarines under the ice, [[EskimoLand native peoples]] and crusty Russian miners (historically also Gulag inmates) at the shores.

North of the Aleutian Islands, this area's more known for seal hunting when it was OK, and being near where the Bering Land Bridge was, which allowed the Americas to get their first inhabitants.

* And then there's this place called [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/Somalia Somalia]]

Moses parted it, according to TheBible. Very popular with divers.
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Moses parted it, accordsing to TheBible.