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Show All Oceans Denoted by the Term "Seven Seas" Today the term "the seven seas" embraces the Arctic and Antarctic, the N'orlh and the South Atlautlc, the North and the South Pacific, and the Indian oceans. At one time in Europe It signified (1) the North sea; (2) the White sea; (3) the Baltic sea; (4) the Mediterranean sea ; (5) the Adri-'alic Adri-'alic sea; (0) the Aegean sea; and (7) the Black sea. If used at the ime of the Dispersion no one knows what it designated; but, In Classic times, the seven seas were: (1) Mare Internum Inter-num the Mediterranean ; (2) Mare Acgaeum the Aegean, east of Greece; (3) Mare Adriaticum the Adriatic (-1) Mare Tyrrhenum the Tyrrhenian, between Italy and Sardinia, Corsica, and Sicily; (5) Mare Ionlcum the Ionian, between Greece and southern Italy, the land of the Siculi (Sicilians) (Sicil-ians) ; (7) Mare Sardoum west of Sardinia and Corsica. East of Suez, the seven sens are (1) Caspian sea; (2) Aral sea; (3) Okhotsk Ok-hotsk sea; (4) Japan sea; (3) China sea ; (C) Arabian sea ; (7) Red sea. In Polynesia are the following: (1) Celebes; (2) Sulu; (3) Java; (4) Ban-da; Ban-da; (o) Arafura; ((1) Coral; (7) Timor. Ti-mor. In the Western hemisphere we have (1) P.ering saa ; (2) Beaufort sea; (3) Greenland sea; (1) Lincoln sea ; (a) Baffin sea ; (fi) Caribbean sea; (7) the Yucatan channel, called by the Mexicans "Mar de las Antillas." George W. Stimpson says, in his j "Nuggets of Knowledge" (p. 1G1): i "The seven seas is a figurative term I denoting all the seas and oceans of the world. ... It was part of the . vernacular of several nations long before be-fore some of Ihe oceans named wero known. . . . The seven seas are referred to in the literature of (lie ancient Hindus, Chinese, Persians. Ho- j mans and other nations. . . . To j the Persians llie seven seas were the srrearns forming the Oxus rivor; the Hindus applied the name to bodies of waier in the Punjab. Near Yeiiitn, Italy, is a group of sait-waP'r lagoons which the Humans called Soptcm j Maria, the Latin phrase for seven ' seas." Literary r';g"si. j |