The world's oceans: geography, history, and environment

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: Thematic Essays -- The Arctic Ocean -- The Atlantic Ocean -- The Indian Ocean -- The Pacific Ocean -- The Southern Ocean -- Oceans and Seas in World Culture -- The Changing Nature of Ocean Boundaries -- The Shipping Industry -- Ocean Exploration -- Environmental Issues and the World's Oceans -- Part II: Topical Entries -- Adriatic Sea -- Age of Sail -- Antikythera Wreck -- Aquaculture -- Art and the Sea -- Atlantic Galleon Exchange -- Atlantis -- Atocha Wreck -- Austronesians -- Beachcombers (Transculturites) -- Belitung Wreck -- Bermuda Triangle -- Bikini Atoll (Nuclear Pacific) -- Burial at Sea -- Carbon Cycle -- Celestial Navigation -- Climate Change -- Coastal Erosion and Deposition -- The Columbian Exchange -- Commodities -- Cook, James (1728-1779) -- Coral Reefs -- Coriolis Effect -- Cousteau, Jacques (1910-1997) -- Cross-Cultural Encounters -- Da Gama, Vasco (1469-1524) -- Deep Sea Exploration -- Earle, Sylvia (1935-) -- El Niño/La Niña -- Estuaries -- Exclusive Economic Zone -- Fortified Wines (Port and Madeira) -- Glaciers -- Great Barrier Reef (Australia) -- Great Pacific Garbage Patch -- The Great Wave Off Kanagawa -- Groot (Grotius), Hugo de (1583-1645) -- Heyerdahl, Thor (1914-2002) -- Hōkūle'a -- Hurricanes and Typhoons -- Ibn Majid, Ahmad (c. 1432-c. 1500) -- Ice Melt -- Islands -- Law of the Sea -- Literature and the Sea -- Little Ice Age -- Littoral -- Magellan, Ferdinand (1480-1521) -- The Manila Galleon -- Marine Pollution -- Maritime Archaeology -- Maritime Deities -- Maritime Empires -- Maritime Organizations -- Maritime Trade -- Mediterranean Sea -- Mermaids -- MH370 -- Moby-Dick -- Mu (Continent of) -- Music and Seafarers -- Myths and Legends -- Nansen, Fridtjof (1861-1930) -- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) -- Navigation