Balearic Sea
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The Balearic Sea or Iberian Sea (endotoponym: Mar Balear in Catalan and Spanish) is a body of water in the Mediterranean Sea near the Balearic Islands.[1] The Ebro River flows into this small sea.
Extent
The International Hydrographic Organization defines the limits of the Balearic Sea as follows:[2]
Between the Islas Baleares and the coast of Spain, bounded:
On the Southwest. A line from Cape San Antonio, Spain (Lua error in Module:Coordinates at line 668: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.) to Cabo Berberia, the Southwest extreme of Formentera (Islas Baleares).
On the Southeast. The South Coast of Formentera, thence a line from Punta Rotja, its Eastern extreme, to the Southern extreme of Isla Cabrera (Lua error in Module:Coordinates at line 668: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.) and to Isla del Aire, off the Southern extreme of Minorca.
On the Northeast. The East coast of Minorca up to Cap Favaritx (Lua error in Module:Coordinates at line 668: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.) thence a line to Cabo San Sebastian (Spain) (Lua error in Module:Coordinates at line 668: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.).
References
- ↑ C.Michael Hogan. 2011. Balearic Sea. Encyclopedia of Earth. Eds. P.Saundry & C.J.Cleveland. National Council for Science and the Environment. Washington DC
- ↑ "Limits of Oceans and Seas, 3rd edition" (PDF). International Hydrographic Organization. 1953. Retrieved 7 February 2010.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
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