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Suur Väin
Suur Väin, the Suur Strait, is the major strait in western Estonia between Muhu Island and the mainland, linking the Väinameri with the Gulf of Riga.
Suvla
Suvla, also known as Suvla Bay, is a bay on the western coast of the Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey, site of the failed British landing of August 1915.
Symi (Σύμη)
Symi (Σύμη), Greek Dodecanese island 12 miles northwest of Rhodes near the Turkish coast; no airport, ferry access only. Known for neoclassical Gialos harbor, 500-step Kali Strata, world's largest historic sponge fleet, and 1971 protected-settlement status.
Taba, Egypt
Taba (طابا) is a small Egyptian resort town on the Gulf of Aqaba beside Eilat, Israel, with a 24/7 border crossing. Known for the 1906 Taba incident and the 1982–1989 Egypt–Israel boundary arbitration that returned it to Egypt on 15 March 1989.
Table Bay Nature Reserve
The Table Bay Nature Reserve is an 880-hectare protected wetland area on the Table Bay coast of Cape Town, South Africa, managed by the City of Cape Town.
Taiwan Strait (台湾海峡)
Taiwan Strait (台湾海峡), also called the Formosa Strait, is a 180-km-wide, ~60-m-deep sea corridor between mainland China and Taiwan linking the East China and South China Seas, with monsoon-driven currents, heavy shipping, and fisheries.
Tampa Bay
Tampa Bay is Florida's largest open-water estuary, a shallow Y-shaped embayment of about 1,036 km2 on the Gulf coast, home to Port Tampa Bay, the state's largest port, and managed by the Tampa Bay Estuary Program for seagrass and water quality recovery.
Tamu Massif
Tamu Massif is an extinct undersea volcanic mountain on the Shatsky Rise, northwest Pacific, once called Earth's largest single volcano; 2019 magnetic data show it formed by ridge spreading, not a shield volcano.
Tasman Sea
Tasman Sea: marginal sea of the South Pacific between Australia and New Zealand, about 2,300,000 km², named for Abel Tasman. Formed by seafloor spreading 60–80 Ma; dominated by the East Australian Current and increasingly by marine heatwaves.
Tasmantid Seamount Chain
Tasmantid Seamount Chain: age-progressive hotspot seamount chain in the Tasman Basin off eastern Australia, running over 1,300 km, younging southward from >50 Ma to ~6 Ma, parallel to the Lord Howe chain.
Tay, Firth of
The Tay (Firth of) is a 12-mile long and 6-mile wide Antarctic sound, running northwest to southeast, between the northeast side of Dundee Island and the eastern part of Joinville Island.
Tayabas Bay
Tayabas Bay, a 2,213 km² bay in southern Luzon, Philippines, bounded by Quezon and the Bondoc Peninsula and opening to Marinduque and the Sibuyan Sea; a major CALABARZON fishing ground with the Dalahican port at Lucena City.
Telefon Bay
Telefon Bay: small bay on the NW side of Port Foster, Deception Island, South Shetland Islands, at 62°56'S 60°40'W. Named Baie du Telefon after the SS Telefon, beached there in winter 1909; charted by Charcot's French expedition.
Terror Fracture Zone
Terror Fracture Zone, a Southern Ocean undersea fracture zone in the GEBCO gazetteer, proposed by Steven C. Cande in 1995 and named for HMS Terror of the Ross Expedition; distinct from the Terror Rift of the western Ross Sea.
Tethys Ocean
Tethys Ocean (Téthys): ancient ocean between Gondwana and Laurasia, conceived by Suess; successive Paleo-, Meso-, and Neo-Tethys basins, once ~12,000 km wide, closed by the India-Eurasia collision, leaving the Mediterranean and Caspian as remnants.
Thames Estuary
The Thames Estuary is the 110 km tidal lower Thames from Teddington to the North Sea, a macrotidal waterway (5.2 m spring range at Sheerness) hosting the UK's largest port, the TE2100 flood defence plan protecting 1.51 million people, and major bird conservation sites.
Thane Creek
Thane Creek is a tidal estuary in Maharashtra, India, between Mumbai and Navi Mumbai, designated Ramsar site 2490 on 13 April 2022 (6,521 ha). It hosts the Thane Creek Flamingo Sanctuary, about 20% of India's mangrove species, and over 100,000 wintering waterbirds including flamingos.
The Dee Estuary
The Dee Estuary (Aber Dyfrdwy) is a macro-tidal estuary between the Wirral and north Wales, designated SAC, SPA, and Ramsar site (1985), famed for 120,000+ wintering waterbirds, saltmarsh, mudflats, and a regulated cockle fishery.
The Exploration of the Pacific
The Exploration of the Pacific is a 1934 history by New Zealand historian John Cawte Beaglehole, covering European exploration from Magellan to Cook and founding his lifelong work on Captain James Cook.
The Narrows
The Narrows is the 8 km tidal channel linking Strangford Lough, County Down, to the Irish Sea, with currents up to 8 knots, a centuries-old Strangford–Portaferry ferry, and the SeaGen tidal turbine; the name also applies to narrows in Zion Canyon, New York Harbor, and Puget Sound.
The Wash
The Wash is England's largest tidal embayment, on the Lincolnshire-Norfolk coast, fed by the Great Ouse, Nene, Welland, and Witham. Macrotidal (about 5 m mean range), it hosts the UK's largest overwintering waterbird aggregation, a large common seal colony, and major shrimp, cockle, and mussel fisheries.
Tikahtnu Inlet
Tikahtnu (Tikahtnu Inlet) is the Dena'ina Athabascan name for Cook Inlet, Alaska, a 290 km tidal estuary near Anchorage with tides up to 12.2 m, about 30% of U.S. tidal energy, and Alaska's oldest oil and gas basin.
Timeline of the European colonization of North America
Timeline of European colonization of North America: Spanish contact from 1492 and encomienda by 1502; Jamestown 1607, Quebec 1608, Santa Fe 1609; Dutch New Netherlands 1624; Treaty of Paris 1763; American independence 1776.
Timor Gap
The Timor Gap is an unbounded Timor Sea seabed area between points A12 and A16 of the 1972 Australia-Indonesia boundary, later governed by the 1989 Timor Gap Treaty, the 2002 Timor Sea Treaty, and the 2018 Maritime Boundary Treaty.
Timor Sea
The Timor Sea lies between Timor Island and northwestern Australia between the Indian Ocean and the Banda and Arafura Seas. Known for the Timor Gap boundary dispute, the JPDA, and the Greater Sunrise gas field.
Tiran Island (جزيرة تيران)
Tiran Island (جزيرة تيران), an uninhabited Red Sea island in the Strait of Tiran at the mouth of the Gulf of Aqaba, transferred from Egyptian administration to Saudi sovereignty by the 2016–2017 maritime delimitation agreement.
Tokyo Bay (東京湾)
Tokyo Bay (東京湾), semi-enclosed drowned river-valley estuary between Boso and Miura peninsulas; 1,380 km², 62.1 km³, ~30 million catchment population; six major ports, Keihin/Keiyo industry, eutrophication history, and post-2023 storm-surge planning.
Tonga Ridge
Tonga Ridge is an undersea ridge in the South Pacific Ocean forming the frontal arc of the Tonga-Kermadec subduction system, where the Pacific Plate subducts beneath the Indo-Australian plate.
Tonga Trench
The Tonga Trench is an oceanic trench in the South Pacific Ocean where the Pacific Plate subducts beneath the Australian Plate, reaching a depth of 10,882 meters.
Torres Strait
Torres Strait, also known as Zenadh Kes, is the body of water between Cape York Peninsula, Australia, and New Guinea, connecting the Coral Sea and the Arafura Sea.