The Mediterranean, an almost closed sea linked to the Atlantic by a a narrow western mouth, is a major shipping route.
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Mykolaivka is considered as a " Simferopol's Beach; " being the closest sea shore it attracts many week-enders from the city.
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It is also the world's second-largest landlocked country behind Kazakhstan and the largest landlocked country that does not border a closed sea.
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After Hipparchus's 3-volume work against Eratosthenes, most classical geographers including Marinus and Ptolemy held that the Indian Ocean was a closed sea.
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Current requirements place the explosives a minimum of below the seafloor which eliminates the threat to all but the closest sea turtles.
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Lebanon has closed sea routes with Libya to prevent hundreds of Palestinians it says were deported by Col . Moammar Gadhafi from entering the country.
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The maps of the Greeks and Romans reveal a good knowledge of closed seas like the Mediterranean but little knowledge of the vast ocean expanses beyond.
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Their trawlers and long-liners have prowled deep waters off the coast of India, Mozambique and Argentina, as well as closer seas off North Africa, Scotland and Norway.
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Although as a landlocked country, Azerbaijan has no access to the open sea ( hence the ocean ), it has a coastline of 713 km on the Caspian Sea, which is a lake or a closed sea depending on various definitions and interpretations.
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One of the big obstacles for the implementation of these policies was the Venetian monopoly on the Adriatic which effectively prevented ships form other countries to fare freely on this closed sea at the time known also as the " Gulf of Venice ".
