Please just accept "English" for "English Channel". It doesn't seem right that you have to type th body of water for this one when you don't on every single other body of water.
Should accept 'English' for the English Channel, that is it's name, same as Mozambique Channel and others named for the nearness such as, Irish, Norwegian, Philippine, Alaska, California, Finland, Mexico, Maine, Oman, Panama, Thailand etc etc
I get that this isn't definitive, but I feel at least all the oceans should probably be included. Although I suppose this map kinda misses it - it only goes to about 55°S and the Southern Ocean starts at 60°S.
After the edit, I think the issue is that the map doesn't extend to Antarctica - because the cited source has the Southern Ocean and various Antarctic Seas around the ice shelves.
Obviously your Anglophobia is showing ........you do not mind the 'Norwegian Sea' / Mozambique Channel / Irish Sea / South China Sea / Philippine Sea / Gulf of Panama / Java Sea / Gulf of Oman-Thailand-California / Indian Ocean etc etc.
I'm not at all an Anglophobe! I've lived in London twice, and even worked for Her Majesty's Government in the Foreign Office. It's just that in almost every language, this clearly shared sea is know by some variation of "La Manche", "La Mancha", "der Ärmelkanal". Even in Dutch, it's just called "The Channel" (Het Kanaal). It's literallly just the English who feel like they have to slap their name on this, and even in English, the operative word is clearly "Channel", not "English". When you call it "the Channel", people will know what you mean, and there won't be any doubt as to which channel is meant. When you call it "the English", people will have no idea whatsoever what you're talking about.
@dunkinggandalf2 It's not about anyone calling it "the English." It's about adding a less labour-intensive type-in, and moreover one that is consistent with the rest of the channels appearing in this quiz that do not require typing 'channel' after their names. No one calls it "the Oman" or "the Philippine" etc. yet I can type Oman and Philippine in for those channels. Feel free to dispute whether or not it should be called the English Channel, but that's got nothing to do with what people are requesting.
Huh. I've been bathing in the Celtic sea in Brittany every summer for all of my life, and I had no idea! I knew it was the Atlantic ocean, obviously, but I also knew that portion as the "Mer d'Iroise", which, it turns out, is a part of the Celtic sea. Who knew!
i've never heard anyone in the UK or Ireland, or Cornwall for that matter, refer to the 'Celtic' Sea. Anyone out there from the southern counties of Eire call it that?
I haven't heard it in Brittany either, but it's probably not an everyday name anywhere, since, if you've live by the sea, you're more likely to call it "the sea" anyway, without bothering to name it - hence my surprise. But I've looked it up, and it is indeed real, and you better believe I'll be using it regularly from now on!
Great fun. I only got around 40 answers but I learnt a lot. Wild guesses like "Norwegian" and "Greenland" were especially satisfying to see pop up as correct answers!
Quite a tough one. I didn't know many of the seas/gulfs/straits around Indonesia/New Guinea/Australia. Also, I typed in "East" and it gave me the Sea of Japan, so I got confused and thought that it was the same as the East China Sea :P
I got all states in same time when i was five, and got countries in seven when i was eight. cool though. Its hard to learn nearly 250 regions and their capitals. you did a good job too
I would buy the explanation for accepting just "channel" but not just "english" for the English Channel if it were the only one, but it's not. The only way to distinguish, then, is to be specific. The specific part is "english" not "channel." So, as with all other answers, the specific part alone should be accepted.
Really love the update! I made a lot of dumb mistakes this time around (misspelling "Norwegian," trying just "Bight" for the Great Australian Bight, trying "Siam" for some reason but not "Thailand."), but I still enjoyed it and learned a lot!
Hi there! I would like to use this map together with 'country borders' but I can't just 'put them together'... any idea how I could do that? And if I manage that can I use the map to create quizzes? Btw perhaps it could get renamed '100 seas on the world map' or something otherwise when searching for 'sea world' it seems this is the version without map
You should make a more advanced version of this quiz that has like ALL (major) Bodies of water including big lakes, the Liberian Sea, James Bay, Dead Sea, Basins, etc.
Nice quiz again from Gassu, my only suggestion is to to include the Levantine Sea which takes up the majority of the eastern side of the Mediterranean Sea. But other than that nice SVG map.
Finally got all 100 after a couple days of trying! Southeast Asia was by far the most difficult to memorize, especially considering I've never heard of most of the seas and gulfs in there lol
why are antarctic waters excluded for seemingly no reason? the southern ocean has been recognized by the national geographic society as well. this is antiantarcticcentric of you!
I live in Sequim which is on the Strait of Juan de Fuca which is the entry of Pacific tides into the Strait of Georgia, Rosario Strait, and Haro Strait. The 'Salish Sea' was 'created' in 1988, lumping these beautiful passages in the San Juan into a misnomer of the indigenous peoples. We don't cruise 'the Salish Sea', we don't navigate 'the Salish Sea', we don't cross 'the Salish Sea', we don't collect local knowledge of 'the Salish Sea'. Especially since I believe QM is local in Washington, I think it would be fitting to acknowledge the true nomenclature of sailors and residents and respect the longtime time historical maritime records. Regards.....
I thought I would elaborate, the Salishan/Salish are essentially in western Montana on the Flathead Reservations with the Bitteroot, Kootenai and Pend d'Oreilles tribes. While they did roam down the Columbia River and British Columbia in no way were they sea-going in the San Juan Islands. There were and are many more tribes here that claim that honor. And now, I will be quiet.....
"This is great but a lot of them are very small and hard to find, hopefully we can get some dots/circles to make them visible".
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very much appreciated
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strait_of_Gibraltar
Connecting the Atlantic to the Mediterranean seems quite important
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Very nice quiz though