Libyan Sea

The Libyan Sea (Latin Mare Libycum in Modern Greek, Livykó Pélagos Λιβυκό Πέλαγος (n. sg. ), Ancient Greek Λιβυκόν πέλαγος ) is a portion of the Mediterranean Sea between Crete and the North African coast of Libya.

Demarcation

The name of the region comes from the sea nor the Roman geography, and says the sea, behind which the provinces Libya Libya were superior and inferior.

The International Hydrographic Organization ( IHO ) introduces the concept of marine region not know what it is rather simply free and the Eastern Mediterranean. The term is used but still to broadly divided into the Mediterranean regions. As the Libyan Sea is delimited as a sea, so depends on different definitions of its more abjointed neighboring seas from:

  • The arch formed by the Greek islands of Kythira, Crete and Karpathos, separated from the Libyan Sea from the northeast of it located Aegean. Is also aware of the sailors coming from the north, only the Libyan Sea, the " open sea " - as opposed to the rich island Aegean.
  • To the east of the Libyan Sea lies the Levantine Sea, the easternmost part of the Mediterranean. According to a tradition which goes in modern travel descriptions, and newer cards from a name of ancient geographers for the Southern Mediterranean to representations to the Libyan sea stretches far to the east, to Tobruk and Alexandria from. Occasionally, the further west running line is specified by the Cape Ra's al -Hilal on the Libyan coast to the island of Gavdos south of Crete as a border. The IHO also does not lead this by- Sea.
  • To the west of the Libyan Sea extends the traditional definition up to the Little Syrtis on the east coast of Tunisia. Just north, the situated between Sicily and Tunisia Strait of Sicily ( in the broader sense ancient Sizilisches Sea), where the archipelago of Malta can be seen as eastern border. Obsolete found for this region which is also still Roman African Sea ( Mare Africum ). Modern one speaks simply of Central Mediterranean.
  • In the north- west of the Libyan Sea lies the Ionian Sea. The IHO defines here the southern boundary of the Ionian Sea, a line of Capo Passero in Sicily in the south to Cape Tenaro, the southern tip of the Peloponnese, in the east .. There are also maps which extends the Sicilian sea as far to the East, that it is shifts between the Libyan and the Ionian Sea. The Sicilian Sea ( Mare Siculum ) is on another card even just east of Sicily and south of the Ionian Sea, while the maritime area between Sicily and Tunisia, on both sides of the Strait of Sicily as African Sea ( Mare Africum ) is called.

Islands

The largest island in the Libyan Sea is Djerba. Other islands in the Libyan Sea are sorted by the demarcation Kerkenna Islands and a few small islands near Crete's south coast; the largest and only permanently inhabited them is Gavdos.

Hydrology

The Libyan Sea is particularly colder on the south side of Crete, close to shore in the eastern Mediterranean as usual. This is justified in prevailing deep currents.

The water appears in a clear dark blue shimmering color and is very clear.

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