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2007-08-28 00:28:19 · 14 answers · asked by Britt 1 in Science & Mathematics Geography

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It's 'seven' as in 7 seas. Severn is a British river.

2007-08-28 08:45:48 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

There's a few more than seven....

ARCTIC SEAS:
The Laptev (Nordenskjold) Sea
The Barents Sea
The East Siberian Sea
The Beaufort Sea
The Chuckchi Sea
The White Sea
The Norwegian Sea
The Greenland Sea
The Queen Victoria Sea
The Lincoln Sea
The Wandel or McKinley Sea
The Kara Sea

ANTARCTIC SEAS:
The Ross Sea
The Davis Sea
The Weddel Sea
The Amundsen Sea
The Bellighausen Sea

ATLANTIC/MEDITERRANEAN SEAS:
The Caribbean Sea
The North Sea
The Irish Sea
The Sea of the Hebrides
The Celtic Sea
The Baltic Sea
The Bothian Sea
The Scotia Sea
The Labrador Sea
The Sargasso Sea
The Mediterranean Sea
The Balearic Sea
The Ligurian Sea
The Tyrrhenian Sea
The Ionian Sea
The Adriatic Sea
The Aegean Sea
The Sea of Marmara
The Thracian Sea
The Sea of Crete

PACIFIC SEAS:
The Philippine Sea
The Sulu Sea
The Koro Sea
The Java Sea
The Halmahera Sea
The Mindanao Sea
The Savu Sea
The Sunda Sea
The Arafura Sea
The Celebs Sea
The Molucca Sea
The Bismark Sea
The Coral Sea
The Solomon Sea
The Tasman Sea
The Bohol Sea
The Visayan Sea
The Camotes Sea
The Bali Sea
The Sibuyan Sea
The Flores Sea
The Timor Sea
The Banda Sea
The Ceram Sea

ASIAN SEAS (INCLUDING JAPAN):
The Aral Sea
The Caspian Sea
The Black Sea
The Sea of Azov
The Red Sea
The Arabian Sea
The Laccidive Sea
The Andaman Sea
The South China Sea
The East China Sea
The Yellow Sea
The Sea of Japan
The Sea of Okhotsk
The Dead Sea
The Sea of Galilee
SEAS WITHIN JAPAN:
The Yatsushiro Sea
The Sagami Sea
The Seto Sea
The Iyo Sea
The Harima Sea
The Inland Sea
The Amakusa Sea

2007-08-28 00:37:34 · answer #2 · answered by Polo 7 · 0 1

There is no definitive answer to this question. The phrase is a figure of speech and has been used to refer to different bodies of water at various times and places.

Some ancient civilizations used the phrase �seven seas� to describe the bodies of water known at that time. The ancient Romans called the lagoons separated from the open sea near Venice the septem maria or seven seas. Most current sources state that "seven seas" referred to the Indian Ocean, Black Sea, Caspian Sea, Adriatic Sea, Persian Gulf, Mediterranean Sea, and the Red Sea.

Not all geographers agree on this list of seven, believing that the seven seas reference will be different depending upon the part of the world and the time period in question.
Some geographers point to the Age of Discovery and suggest that the seven seas represent the Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic, and Indian Oceans, as well as the Mediterranean Sea, the Caribbean, and the Gulf of Mexico. Other geographers state that the seven seas were the Mediterranean and Red Seas, Indian Ocean, Persian Gulf, China Sea, and the West and East African Seas.

Today we recognize more than 50 seas worldwide. A sea is defined as a division of the ocean which is enclosed or partially enclosed by land. With that said, the Caspian Sea, Dead Sea, and Aral Sea are actually saltwater lakes, because they lack an outlet to the ocean. Conversely, by this definition, the Gulf of Mexico and Hudson Bay are seas.
http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/mysteries/seas.html

2007-08-28 00:36:09 · answer #3 · answered by swagles 2 · 1 0

Pacific Ocean
Atlantic Ocean
Indian Ocean
Adriatic Sea
Mediterranean Sea
Caspian Sea
Black sea

2007-08-28 00:36:55 · answer #4 · answered by Shreyan 4 · 0 0

Adriatic Sea
Aegean Sea
Arabian Sea
Black Sea
Caspian Sea
Indian Ocean
Mediterranean Sea
Persian Gulf
Red Sea

2007-08-28 00:36:24 · answer #5 · answered by Baron_von_Party 6 · 0 2

1.Adriatic Sea

2.Aegean Sea

3.Arabian Sea

4.Black Sea

5.Caspian Sea

5.Indian Ocean

6.Mediterranean Sea

7.Red Sea

2007-08-28 01:17:03 · answer #6 · answered by Brainy Boy 2 · 0 0

Courtesy of wikipedia.org

Medieval European and Arabic literature often spoke of the Seven Seas. Which seven seas are intended depends on the context. "Seven Seas" was a commonplace phrase in many ancient literatures before it was taken up by the Greeks and Romans; it appears in a translation of one of Enheduanna's hymns to Inanna (Hymn 8), written about 2300 BC in Sumer.[1] The number seven has ancient magic of its own in many traditions, informing many groupings of seven. "Seven" as an indefinite number remains for a long time synonymous with "several", as in the Greek Seven Seas.[2] In Greek and Western culture, the "seven" seas were arbitrary and changed over time, varying depending upon the part of the world and the period of time. However, they were usually seven out of the following list of nine bodies of water:

Adriatic Sea
Aegean Sea
Arabian Sea
Black Sea
Caspian Sea
Indian Ocean
Mediterranean Sea
Persian Gulf
Red Sea

2007-08-28 00:40:02 · answer #7 · answered by june 2 · 0 0

However, today, the seven seas are the North Atlantic, South Atlantic, North Pacific, South Pacific, Indian, Antarctic, and Arctic Oceans.

2007-08-28 00:37:51 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Arctic,Sargasses,Austral Ocean, Black Sea, North Pacific,South Pacific, Indian Ocean.

2007-08-28 00:36:45 · answer #9 · answered by guguss_flo 4 · 0 0

Arctic
Antarctic
North and South Atlantic
North and the South Pacific
and the Indian Ocean

2007-08-28 00:32:38 · answer #10 · answered by Sal*UK 7 · 0 0

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