Yellow Sea
Proper noun
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Proper noun
- An arm of the Pacific Ocean between mainland China and the Korean peninsula.
- It was New Year's Eve, and the eighteen American officials who had hurriedly gathered in the State Department Operations Room on 31 December 1970, were still sharply divided after four hours of discussion.¹ The issue was what, if anything, the Seventh Fleet should do in the event of Chinese naval action against the U.S. seismic survey vessels then beginning to explore for oil in disputed waters of the East China Sea, the Taiwan Strait, and the Yellow Sea.
- The combined East China Sea and Yellow Sea (ECS/YS) covers roughly 1,250,000 km² and is one of the most developed continental shelf areas in the world (Yanagi and Takahashi, 1993). While the Yellow Sea (YS) covers a relatively large area, it is quite shallow reaching a maximum depth of about 140 m (Figure 1). The water depth over most of the area is less than 50 m.
- French: mer Jaune
- German: Gelbes Meer
- Italian: Mar Giallo
- Portuguese: Mar Amarelo
- Russian: Жёлтое мо́ре
- Spanish: mar Amarillo
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