Today’s kgb fact of the day: What sea has no coast?
The Sargasso Sea is a region in the North Atlantic Ocean which has no coast. It is surrounded by ocean currents and lies roughly between Cuba and The Azores.
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“Coast” is a very specific term and is only applied to that part of an island or continent that borders an ocean or its saltwater tributaries. A pelagic coast refers to a coast which fronts the open ocean, as opposed to a more sheltered coast in a gulf or bay. A shore on the other hand, can refer to parts of the land which adjoin any large body of water, including oceans (sea shore) and lakes (lake shore).
The “sea of tranquillity” is a lunar mare (Latin word for “sea”) that sits within the Tranquillitatis basin on Earth’s moon. Galileo thought the dark featureless areas on the Moon were bodies of water, even though the Moon is essentially devoid of liquid water, and therefore this is a “sea” with no coastline. The term is still applied to the basalt-filled impact basins common on the face of the Moon visible from Earth.
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