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Gulf and Finland
The Baltic Sea might be considered to be bordered on its northern edge by the Gulf of Bothnia, on its northeastern edge by the Gulf of Finland, and on its eastern edge by the Gulf of Riga.
The ice-covered area during such a typical winter includes the Gulf of Bothnia, the Gulf of Finland, Gulf of Riga, Väinameri in the Estonian archipelago, the Stockholm archipelago and the Archipelago Sea.
The Gulf of Finland and the Gulf of Riga freeze typically in late January.
In 2011, the Gulf of Finland was completely frozen on 15 February.
According to William Derham, during the severe winters of 1703 and 1708 the ice cover permeated as far as the Danish straits, parts of the Gulf of Bothnia and Gulf of Finland, in addition to coastal fringes in more southerly locations such as the Gulf of Riga.
In spring, the Gulf of Finland and the Gulf of Bothnia normally thaw during in late April, with some ice ridges persisting until May in the eastern extremities of the Gulf of Finland.
It borders the Gulf of Finland, between Latvia and Russia.
Near the town of Sillamäe, site of a former uranium enrichment plant, about 1, 200 tons of uranium and about 750 tons of thorium had been dumped into a reservoir on the shore of the Gulf of Finland.
Bordering the Baltic Sea, Gulf of Bothnia, and Gulf of Finland, as well as Sweden, Norway, and Russia, Finland is the northernmost country on the European continent.
The warm waters of the Gulf Stream and the North Atlantic Drift Current, which warm Norway and Sweden, also warm Finland.

Gulf and outer
Extending from the Gulf northward for about 150 miles ( 240 km ) is the outer belt of the Coastal Plain, also called the Timber Belt, whose soil is sandy and poor, but responds well to fertilization.
it is situated to the north-east of central Auckland in the outer Hauraki Gulf.
* Anadyr Bay may refer to the Gulf of Anadyr or to Anadyr Estuary or its outer part.
It is found in tropical waters, in lagoons and on outer reef slopes, from the Persian Gulf to Western Australia and throughout the Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean as far as Melanesia and Micronesia, and as far north as Taiwan, southern Japan and the Ryukyu Islands.
It is bounded in the east by the Isthmus of Corinth which includes the shipping route of the Corinth Canal, and in the west by the Strait of Rion, which separates the Gulf of Corinth from the outer Gulf of Patras at Cape Drepano, where the narrowest point is crossed by the Rio-Antirio bridge.
Kish is located in the Persian Gulf from mainland Iran and has an area of around with an outer boundary of and a nearly elliptical shape.
Atlantic coast of North America from the offing of South Carolina and from coastal North Carolina waters to the outer coast of Nova Scotia and Cape Breton ; northward as a stray to the Gulf of St. Lawrence and to the south and east coasts of Newfoundland ; southward to Florida in deep water
Another key factor was that the Finns had recaptured outer islands of the Gulf of Finland, Suursaari being the most important of them.

Gulf and limit
The Eastern limit of the Gulf of Aden meridian of Cape Guardafui ( Ras Asir, 51 ° 16 ' E ).
The same limit as that described for the Gulf of Mexico
The International Hydrographic Organization defines the western limit of the Gulf of Finland as a line running from Spithami ( 59 ° 13 ' N ), in Estonia, through the island of Osmussaar from SE to NW and on to the SW extreme of Hanko Peninsula ( 22 ° 54 ' E ) in Finland.
The International Hydrographic Organization refers to the gulf as the " Gulf of Iran ( Persian Gulf )", and defines its southern limit as " The Northwestern limit of Gulf of Oman ".
On Vancouver Island, Coast Salish peoples territory traditionally spans from the northern limit of the Gulf of Georgia on the inside of Vancouver Island and covering most of southern Vancouver Island.
An international treaty known as MARPOL is designed to limit the dumping of wastes into the Gulf but there can be violators and the enforcement of the treaty is difficult, as well as the fact that some trash can originate from sewage transport or even come from the Equator.
The International Hydrographic Organization defines the southern limit of the Gulf of California as: " A line joining Piastla Point ( 23 ° 38 ' N ) in Mexico, and the southern extreme of Lower California ".
The International Hydrographic Organization defines the southern limit of the Gulf of Bothnia as follows:
The International Hydrographic Organization defines the southern limit of the Gulf of Thailand as " A line running from the Western extreme of Cambodia or Camau Point ( 8 ° 36 ' N ) this point is actually in Vietnam to the Northern extreme of the point on the East side of the estuary of the Kelantan River ()".
The International Hydrographic Organization defines the southern limit of the Gulf of Suez as " A line running from Ràs Muhammed ( 27 ° 43 ' N ) to the South point of Shadwan Island ( 34 ° 02 ' E ) and thence Westward on a parallel ( 27 ° 27 ' N ) to the coast of Africa ".
The International Hydrographic Organization defines the southern limit of the Gulf of Aqaba as " A line running from Ràs al Fasma Southwesterly to Requin Island () through Tiran Island to the Southwest point thereof and thence Westward on a parallel ( 27 ° 54 ' N ) to the coast of the Sinaï Peninsula ".
The U. S. Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) and the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) advise women of child-bearing age, nursing mothers, and young children to completely avoid swordfish, shark, king mackerel and tilefish from the Gulf of Mexico, ( Golden Tilefish from the Mid-and North-Atlantic present no risk ), to limit consumption of albacore (" white ") tuna to no more than per week, and of all other fish and shellfish to no more than per week.
: Bounded easterly by the Gulf of St. Lawrence and northerly, westerly and southerly by the following described bounds: Beginning at a point in the most western extremity of a twenty acre lot granted to F. Vienneau, situated at the easterly entrance of the Tracadie Lagoon ; thence northwesterly in a direct line across said Lagoon to the mouth of LeBouthillier Brook ; thence in a northwesterly direction following the various courses of said brook upstream to Highway 11 leading from Tracadie to Pokemouche ; thence in a direct line to the northeast angle of lot number one hundred and forty-five, granted to Dosite Landry, situated on the north side of the Saint-Isidore Road ; thence in a westerly direction along the north limit of said lot to a point where the same is intersected by a direct line extending from the southeast angle of lot number one hundred and forty-four, granted to Dos.
Landry ; thence in a westerly direction along the south limit of said lot to a point where the same is intersected by the west bank or shore of Gaspereau Creek ; thence in a southerly direction along said bank or shore to a point in the southern limit of lot number one hundred and forty-two, granted to M. Gottro ; thence in a westerly direction along the southern limit of said lot and said limit of lot number three hundred and six, granted to George Savoy, and lot number three hundred and nine, granted to A. Basque, to a point in the eastern limit of lot number one, granted to T. Richard ; thence in a southerly direction along said limit of said lot to the southeast angle of the same ; thence in a westerly direction along the south limit of Range Six, Saint-Isidore, to the northwest angle of lot number two hundred and eighty-nine, granted to Canute Arceno, situated in the Second Tier North of the Little Tracadie River ; thence in a southerly direction along the west limit of said lot and said limit of lot number thirty, granted to Richard Arseneault, to a point in the north bank or shore of the aforesaid River ; thence following the said bank or shore upstream to a point where the same is intersected by the south limit of Range Nine, Saint-Isidore ; thence in a westerly direction along said limit of said Range and its western prolongation to a point in the Division line between Timber Block Numbers Three and Four, Range Eight ; thence in a southerly direction along said Division line in Ranges Eight, Nine and Ten to a point in the Gloucester-Northumberland County line ; and thence in an easterly direction along said County line to the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

Gulf and territorial
Maritime boundary dispute with Venezuela in the Gulf of Venezuela ; territorial disputes with Nicaragua over Archipelago de San Andrés y Providencia and Quita Sueño Bank.
Gaddafi claimed the Gulf of Sidra as his territorial water and his navy was involved in a conflict from January to March 1986.
Various small islands lie within the Persian Gulf, some of which are the subject of territorial disputes between the states of the region.
The territorial border between the two countries is being definitively mapped pursuant to a Land Border Agreement signed in December 1999, and an Agreement on Borders in the Gulf of Tonkin signed in December 2000.
The economy of São Tomé and Príncipe, while traditionally dependent on cocoa, is experiencing considerable changes due to investment in the development of its oil industry its territorial waters in the oil-rich waters of the Gulf of Guinea.
However, an unresolved territorial dispute with the United Arab Emirates concerning three islands in the Persian Gulf continues to mar its relations with these states.
Access to the port was a significant issue in the territorial dispute with Kuwait which led to the 1991 Persian Gulf War.
* February 12-United States Navy aircraft carriers commence exercises in the Gulf of Sirte, off the coast of Libya, challenging that country's territorial claims to those waters.
In 1973, Libya claimed the Gulf of Sidra as a closed bay and part of its territorial waters.
In 1973 Libya claimed much of the Gulf of Sidra as its territorial waters and subsequently declared a " line of death ", the crossing of which would invite a military response.
* Parts of the Gulf of Fonseca and of the territorial sea outside its mouth comprise a unique tridominium between El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua.
While flying in Iranian airspace over Iran's territorial waters in the Persian Gulf on its usual flight path, it was destroyed by the United States Navy guided missile cruiser.
* Gulf of Sidra incident ( 1981 ), US-Libyan air engagement over territorial claim, two Libyan jets shot down by F-14 Tomcats from USS Nimitz
* Gulf of Sidra incident ( 1989 ), US-Libyan air engagement over territorial claim, two Libyan jets shot down by F-14 Tomcats from USS John F. Kennedy
With Poland being divided between two powers, the Soviet Union put forth its territorial demands to Finland for a minor part of the Karelian Isthmus, a naval base at Hanko ( Hangö ) peninsula and some islands in the Gulf of Finland.
Two recent conflicts occurred in the Gulf of Sidra where Libya has claimed the entire gulf as its territorial waters and the U. S. has twice enforced freedom of navigation rights, in the 1981 and 1989 Gulf of Sidra incidents.
On April 14, 1986, in response to acts of terrorism then believed, and now known, to have been sponsored by Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi — in particular, the Berlin discotheque bombing of April 6 — and against the backdrop of heightened tension and clashes between the Libyan and U. S. navies over Libya's disputed territorial water claims in the Gulf of Sidra, the United States launched a surprise attack on key facilities in Tripoli and other parts of Libya.
Operation Praying Mantis was an attack on April 18, 1988, by U. S. naval forces within Iranian territorial waters in retaliation for the Iranian mining of the Persian Gulf during the Iran – Iraq war and the subsequent damage to an American warship.
Besides the Persian territorial and political ambitions in the Persian Gulf, in the period 1888-1903 the British government was worried equally about French intrigues, and Russian and German naval and economic interests in the region.
In late 1966, the Tiri, the boat chosen to carry the transmitter, anchored in the Hauraki Gulf outside the 3-mile territorial waters limit, despite government efforts to stop it from sailing.
This was the only ship-based pirate station to ever broadcast in the Southern Hemisphere which it did for 1, 111 days, although it was subsequently discovered that the ship had in fact always been moored in NZ territorial waters ( Hauraki Gulf ).
During this tour, forces under his command launched raids on Libya in defiance of Colonel / President Muammar Gaddafi's claim that Libya's territorial waters extended 200 miles into the Gulf of Sidra.
Archipelago Sea ( Finnish Saaristomeri, Swedish Skärgårdshavet ) is a part of the Baltic Sea between the Gulf of Bothnia, the Gulf of Finland and the Sea of Åland, within Finnish territorial waters.

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