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Gulf of Aden

Index Gulf of Aden

The Gulf of Aden, also known as the Gulf of Berbera, (خليج عدن,, Gacanka Berbera) is a gulf amidst Yemen to the north, the Arabian Sea and Guardafui Channel to the east, Somalia to the south, and Djibouti to the west. [1]

58 relations: Aden, American University in Cairo Press, Arabian Sea, Bab-el-Mandeb, Balhaf, Berbera, Biodiversity, Blue whale, Bosaso, Bryde's whale, Cape Guardafui, Coral, Crater (Aden), Djibouti, Djibouti (city), Dolphin, Dugong, Erythraean Sea, Fish, Guardafui Channel, Gulf of Tadjoura, Humpback whale, Indian Ocean, International Hydrographic Organization, Invertebrate, Kingdom of Awsan, Las Khorey, Lawyacado, List of gulfs, Maritime Security Patrol Area, Maydh, Mediterranean Sea, Monsoon, Mukalla, Obock, Outline of Earth sciences, Per mille, Persian Gulf, Petroleum, Piracy off the coast of Somalia, Pollution, Ras Siyyan, Red Sea, Sabaeans, Salinity, Seabird, Somalia, Somaliland, Sperm whale, Suez Canal, ..., The Diplomat, The Nation, Tropical bottlenose whale, Whale, World economy, Yahoo!, Yemen, Zeila. Expand index (8 more) »

Aden

Aden (عدن Yemeni) is a port city in Yemen, located by the eastern approach to the Red Sea (the Gulf of Aden), some east of Bab-el-Mandeb.

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American University in Cairo Press

The American University in Cairo Press (AUCP, AUC Press) is the leading English-language publisher in the Middle East.

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Arabian Sea

The Arabian Sea, also known as Sea of Oman, is a region of the northern Indian Ocean bounded on the north by Pakistan and Iran, on the west by the Gulf of Aden, Guardafui Channel and the Arabian Peninsula, and on the east by India.

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Bab-el-Mandeb

The Bab-el-Mandeb (Arabic: باب المندب, "Gate of Tears") is a strait located between Yemen on the Arabian Peninsula, and Djibouti and Eritrea in the Horn of Africa.

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Balhaf

Balhaf is an industrial port town and an oasis in an area of coastal dunes in the Burum Coastal Area of Yemen.

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Berbera

Berbera (Barbara, بربرة) is a city in the northwestern Woqooyi Galbeed region of Somaliland.

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Biodiversity

Biodiversity, a portmanteau of biological (life) and diversity, generally refers to the variety and variability of life on Earth.

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Blue whale

The blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) is a marine mammal belonging to the baleen whale parvorder, Mysticeti.

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Bosaso

Bosaso (Boosaaso, بوساسو) is a city in the northeastern Bari province (gobol) of Somalia.

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Bryde's whale

Bryde's whale or the Bryde's whale complex putatively comprises two species of rorqual and maybe three.

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Cape Guardafui

Cape Guardafui (Gees Gardafuul), also known historically as Aromata promontorium, is a headland in the autonomous Puntland region in Somalia.

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Coral

Corals are marine invertebrates in the class Anthozoa of phylum Cnidaria.

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Crater (Aden)

Crater (كريتر), also Kraytar, is a district of the Aden Governorate, Yemen.

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Djibouti

Djibouti (جيبوتي, Djibouti, Jabuuti, Gabuuti), officially the Republic of Djibouti, is a country located in the Horn of Africa.

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Djibouti (city)

Djibouti City (also called Djibouti; مدينة جيبوتي, Ville de Djibouti, Magaalada Jabuuti, Magaala Gabuuti) is the eponymous capital and largest city of Djibouti.

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Dolphin

Dolphins are a widely distributed and diverse group of aquatic mammals.

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Dugong

The dugong (Dugong dugon) is a medium-sized marine mammal.

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Erythraean Sea

The Erythraean Sea (Greek: Ἐρυθρὰ Θάλασσα Erythra Thalassa, "Red Sea") is the name in ancient cartography for a body of water located between the Horn of Africa and the Arabian peninsula.

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Fish

Fish are gill-bearing aquatic craniate animals that lack limbs with digits.

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Guardafui Channel

The Guardafui Channel is an oceanic strait off the tip of the Horn of Africa.

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Gulf of Tadjoura

The Gulf of Tadjoura, is a gulf or basin of the Indian Ocean in the Horn of Africa.

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Humpback whale

The humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) is a species of baleen whale.

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Indian Ocean

The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's oceanic divisions, covering (approximately 20% of the water on the Earth's surface).

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International Hydrographic Organization

The International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) is the inter-governmental organisation representing hydrography.

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Invertebrate

Invertebrates are animals that neither possess nor develop a vertebral column (commonly known as a backbone or spine), derived from the notochord.

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Kingdom of Awsan

The ancient Kingdom of Awsān in South Arabia (modern Yemen), with a capital at Ḥajar Yaḥirr in Wādī Markhah, to the south of Wādī Bayḥān, is now marked by a tell or artificial mound, which is locally named Ḥajar Asfal.

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Las Khorey

Las Khorey (Laasqoray, لاسقُرَى) is an ancient coastal city in the northern Sanaag region of Somalia.

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Lawyacado

Lawyacado is a town in the Awdal region of Somaliland.

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List of gulfs

A gulf in geography is a large bay that is an arm of an ocean or sea.

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Maritime Security Patrol Area

The Maritime Security Patrol Area (MSPA) is a specified patrol zone in the Gulf of Aden and Guardafui Channel.

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Maydh

Maydh (also transliterated as Mait or Meit) is an ancient port city in the northern Sanaag region of Somaliland.

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Mediterranean Sea

The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa and on the east by the Levant.

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Monsoon

Monsoon is traditionally defined as a seasonal reversing wind accompanied by corresponding changes in precipitation, but is now used to describe seasonal changes in atmospheric circulation and precipitation associated with the asymmetric heating of land and sea.

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Mukalla

Mukalla (المكلا) is a seaport and the capital city of Yemen's Hadhramaut Governorate.

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Obock

Obock (also Obok, Ubuk, أوبوك) is a small port town in Djibouti.

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Outline of Earth sciences

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Earth science: Earth science – all-embracing term for the sciences related to the planet Earth.

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Per mille

A per milleCambridge Dictionary Online.

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Persian Gulf

The Persian Gulf (lit), (الخليج الفارسي) is a mediterranean sea in Western Asia.

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Petroleum

Petroleum is a naturally occurring, yellow-to-black liquid found in geological formations beneath the Earth's surface.

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Piracy off the coast of Somalia

Piracy off the coast of Somalia has been a threat to international shipping since the second phase of the Somali Civil War, around 2000, when foreign ships exploited the absence of an effective national coast guard by invading the fishing grounds and also dumping illegal waste that would further diminish the local catch.

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Pollution

Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into the natural environment that cause adverse change.

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Ras Siyyan

Ras Siyyan or Ras Siyan (رأس سيان) is a peninsula in the Obock Region of Djibouti, on the Bab-el-Mandeb strait (between the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden), about 20 km southwest of Perim Island.

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Red Sea

The Red Sea (also the Erythraean Sea) is a seawater inlet of the Indian Ocean, lying between Africa and Asia.

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Sabaeans

The Sabaeans or Sabeans (اَلـسَّـبَـئِـيُّـون,; שבא; Musnad: 𐩪𐩨𐩱) were an ancient people speaking an Old South Arabian language who lived in the southern Arabian Peninsula.

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Salinity

Salinity is the saltiness or amount of salt dissolved in a body of water (see also soil salinity).

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Seabird

Seabirds (also known as marine birds) are birds that are adapted to life within the marine environment.

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Somalia

Somalia (Soomaaliya; aṣ-Ṣūmāl), officially the Federal Republic of SomaliaThe Federal Republic of Somalia is the country's name per Article 1 of the.

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Somaliland

Somaliland (Somaliland; صوماليلاند, rtl), officially the Republic of Somaliland (Jamhuuriyadda Somaliland, جمهورية صوماليلاند Jumhūrīyat Ṣūmālīlānd), is a self-declared state internationally recognised as an autonomous region of Somalia.

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Sperm whale

The sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) or cachalot is the largest of the toothed whales and the largest toothed predator.

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Suez Canal

thumb The Suez Canal (قناة السويس) is an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea through the Isthmus of Suez.

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The Diplomat

The Diplomat is an online international news magazine covering politics, society, and culture in the Asia-Pacific region.

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The Nation

The Nation is the oldest continuously published weekly magazine in the United States, and the most widely read weekly journal of progressive political and cultural news, opinion, and analysis.

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Tropical bottlenose whale

The tropical bottlenose whale (Indopacetus pacificus), also known as the Indo-Pacific beaked whale and Longman's beaked whale, was considered to be the world's rarest cetacean until recently, but the spade-toothed whale now holds that position.

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Whale

Whales are a widely distributed and diverse group of fully aquatic placental marine mammals.

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World economy

The world economy or global economy is the economy of the world, considered as the international exchange of goods and services that is expressed in monetary units of account (money).

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Yahoo!

Yahoo! is a web services provider headquartered in Sunnyvale, California and wholly owned by Verizon Communications through Oath Inc..

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Yemen

Yemen (al-Yaman), officially known as the Republic of Yemen (al-Jumhūriyyah al-Yamaniyyah), is an Arab sovereign state in Western Asia at the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula.

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Zeila

Zeila (Saylac, زيلع), also known as Zaila or Zeyla, is a port city in the northwestern Awdal region of Somaliland.

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Aden, Gulf of, Gacanka Cadmeed, Gulf of Berbera, Khalīj 'Adan, Pirate alley, خليج عدن.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Aden

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