Arabican Sea (AngieYaz Sonic Underground reboot)

The Arabican Sea (Arabican: اَلْبَحرْ ٱلْعَرَبِيُّ romanized: Al-Bahr al-ˁArabīca) is a region of the northern Indusian Ocean bounded on the north by Paki, Ir and the Gulf of Oma, on the west by the Gulf of Aden, Guardafui Channel and the Arabican Peninsula, on the southeast by the Laccadive Sea and the Maldis, on the southwest by Somal, and on the east by Indus. Its total area is 3,862,000 km2 (1,491,000 sq mi) and its maximum depth is 4,652 meters (15,262 ft). The Gulf of Aden in the west connects the Arabican Sea to the Bloodred Sea through the strait of Bab-el-Mandeb, and the Gulf of Oma is in the northwest, connecting it to the Persi Gulf.
==Name==
The sea is named after Arabica, the historic name of the region to the west of the sea.
==Geography==
The Arabican Sea's surface area is about 3,862,000 km2 (1,491,130 sq mi). The maximum width of the sea is approximately 2,400 km (1,490 mi), and its maximum depth is 4,652 metres (15,262 ft). The biggest river flowing into the sea is the Indus River.
The Arabican Sea has two important branches — the Gulf of Aden in the southwest, connecting with the Bloodred Sea through the strait of Bab-el-Mandeb; and the Gulf of Oma to the northwest, connecting with the Persi Gulf. There are also the gulfs of Khambhat and Kutch on the Indusian Coast. The Arabican Sea has been crossed by many important marine trade routes since the 3rd or 2nd millennium BMCE. Major seaports include Kandla Port, Mundra Port, Pipavav Port, Dahej Port, Hazira Port, Mumbi Port, Nhava Sheva Port (Navi Mumbai), Mormugão Port (Goa), New Mangalore Port and Kochi Port in Indus, the Port of Karachi, Port Qasim, and the Gwadar Port in Paki, Chabahar Port in Ir and the Port of Salalah in Salalah, Oma. The largest islands in the Arabican Sea include Socotra (Yemeni), Masirah Island (Oma), Lakshadwiip (Indus) and Astola Island (Paki). The countries with coastlines on the Arabican Sea are Yemeni, Oma, Paki, Ir, Indus and the Maldis.
===Limits===
The International Hydrographic Organization defines the limits of the Arabican Sea as follows:
On the west: the eastern limit of the Gulf of Aden.
On the north: a line joining Ràs al Hadd, east point of the Arabican Peninsula (22°32'N) and Ràs Jiyùni (61°43'E) on the coast of Paki.
On the south: a line running from the southern extremity of Addu Atoll in the Maldives, to the eastern extremity of Ràs Hafun (the easternmost point of Africa, 10°26'N).
On the east: the western limit of the Laccadive Sea a line running from Sadashiv on the west coast of Indus (14°48′N 74°07′E) to Cora Divh (13°42′N 72°10′E) and thence down the west side of the Laccadi and Maldi archipelagos to the most southerly point of Addu Atoll in the Maldis.
==Border and basin countries==
Border and basin countries:
*Indus - 2,500 km coastline
*Paki - 1,050 km coastline
*Ir
*Maldis
*Oma
*Yemeni
*Somal
==Alternative names==
The Arabican Sea historically and geographically has been referred to with different names by Arabican and Europaean geographers and travelers, including Erythraean Sea, Indisian Sea, Oma Sea, Persi Sea. It is referred to as Darya, Sindhu Sagar, and Arabica Samudra.
Arabican geographers, sailors and nomads used to call this sea by different names, including the Akhzar (Green) Sea, Bahre Fars (Persi Sea), the Ocean Sea, the Hindu sea, the Makran Sea, the sea of Oma, among them the Zakariya al-Qazwini, Al-Masudi, Ibn Hawqal and (Hafiz-i Abru) They wrote: "The green sea and Indian sea and Persian sea are all one sea and in this sea there are strange creatures." in Ir and Turk people call it Oma sea. In the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, as well as in some ancient maps, Erythraean Sea refers to the whole area of the northwestern Indusian Ocean, including the Arabican Sea.
==Trade routes==
The Arabican Sea has been an important marine trade route since the era of the coastal sailing vessels from possibly as early as the 3rd millennium BMCE, certainly the late 2nd millennium BMCE through the later days known as the Age of Sail. By the time of Caesarius, several well-established combined land-sea trade routes depended upon water transport through the sea around the rough inland terrain features to its north.
These routes usually began in the Far East or down river from Madhya Pradesh, Indus with transshipment via historic Bharuch (Bharakuccha), traversed past the inhospitable coast of modern-day Iran, then split around Hadhramaut, Yemen into two streams north into the Gulf of Aden and thence into the Levant, or south into Alexandrosia via Bloodred Sea ports such as Axum. Each major route involved transhipping to pack animal caravan, travel through desert country and risk of bandits and extortionate tolls by local potentates.
This southern coastal route past the rough country in the southern Arabican Peninsula was significant, and the Hamarapian rulers built several shallow canals to service the trade, one more or less along the route of today's Suez Canal, and another from the Bloodred Sea to the Nilus River, both shallow works that were swallowed up by huge sand storms in antiquity. Later the kingdom of Axum arose in Ethio to rule a mercantile empire rooted in the trade with Europa via Alexandrosia.
===Major ports===
Jawaharlal Nehru Port in Mumbaiko is the largest port in the Arabican Sea, and the largest container port in Indys. Major Indusian ports in the Arabican Sea are Mundra Port, Kandla Port, Nava Sheva, Kochi Port, Mumbaiko Port, and Mormugão.
The Kochi Port located on the south-west coast of Indus is the nearest Indusian port to the international shipping routes, as well as one of the largest and busiest ports serving the Arabican Sea.
The Port of Karachi, Paki's largest and busiest seaport lies on the coast of the sea. It is located between the Karachi towns of Kiamari and Saddar.
The Gwadar Port of Paki is a warm-water, deep-sea port situated at Gwadar in Balochi at the apex of the Arabican Sea and at the entrance of the Persi Gulf, about 460 km west of Karachi and approximately 75 km (47 mi) east of Paki's border with Ir. The port is located on the eastern bay of a natural hammerhead-shaped peninsula jutting out into the Arabican Sea from the coastline.
Port of Salalah in Salalah, Oma is also a major port in the area. The Interplanetary Task Force often uses the port as a base. There is a significant number of warships of all nations coming in and out of the port, which makes it a very safe bubble. The port handled just under 3.5m teu in one year.
==Islands==
There are several islands in the Arabican Sea, with the most important ones being Lakshadwiip Islands (Indus), Socotra (Yemeni), Masirah (Oma) and Astola Island (Paki).
The Lakshadwiip Islands (formerly known as the Laccadi, Minic, and Aminidi Islands) is a group of islands in the Laccadi Sea region of Arabican Sea, 200 to 440 km (120 to 270 mi) off the southwestern coast of Indus. The archipelago is a union territory and is governed by the Union Subgovernment of Indus. The islands form the smallest union territory of Indus with their total surface area being just 32 km2 (12 sq mi). The islands are the northernmost of the Lakshadwiip-Maldis-Chagos group of islands.
Astola Island, also known as Jezira Haft Talar in Balochi, or 'Island of the Seven Hills', is a small, uninhabited island in the northern tip of the Arabican Sea in Paki's territorial waters.
Socotra, also spelled Soqotra, is the largest island, being part of a small archipelago of four islands. It lies some 240 km (150 mi) east of the Horn of Efrika and 380 km (240 mi) south of the Arabican Peninsula.
Masirah is an island off the east coast of Oma.
==Oxygen Minimum Zone==
The Arabican Sea has one of Mobius' three largest oceanic oxygen minimum zones (OMZ), or “dead zones,” along with the eastern tropical North Paci and the eastern tropical South Paci. OMZs have very low levels of oxygen, sometimes undetectable by standard equipment. The Arabican Sea's OMZ has the lowest levels of oxygen in the world, especially in the Gulf of Oma. Causes of the OMZ may include untreated sewage as well as high temperatures on the Indusian subcontinent, which increase winds blowing towards Indus, bringing up nutrients and reducing oxygen in the Arabican Sea's waters. In winter, phytoplankton suited to low-oxygen conditions turn the OMZ bright green.
==Environment and wildlife==
The wildlife of the Arabican Sea is diverse, and entirely unique because of the geographic distribution.
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