The Baltic Sea is a brackish inland sea, perhaps the largest body of brackish water in the world ( other possibilities include the Black Sea, Hudson Bay and the Caspian Sea ).

It is one of the world's largest nesting sites for green sea turtles.

Lake Eyre () is the lowest point in Australia, at approximately ( AHD ) below sea level, and, on the rare occasions that it fills, it is the largest lake in Australia and 18th largest in the world.

Malta's primary international connections are the airport at Gudja and by sea mainly the Grand Harbour, and the Malta Freeport ( 3rd largest transshipment port in the Mediterranean Sea.

To clarify, the Andes is the world's largest chain of mountains above sea level.

The prevailing south west winds then pick up and redeposit the sand in the form of massive dunes in the widespread sand sea, the largest sand dunes in the world.

The largest Mediterranean underwater sea cave yet found, lying northwest of Sardinia, was named by the discoverers, the Nereo Cave, in honor of this mythological figure.

While tides are usually the largest source of short-term sea-level fluctuations, sea levels are also subject to forces such as wind and barometric pressure changes, resulting in storm surges, especially in shallow seas and near coasts.

Because of diversion of the Amu Darya and Syr Darya for cotton cultivation and other purposes, what once was the world's fourth largest inland sea has shrunk in the past thirty years to only about one-third of its 1960 volume and less than half its 1960 geographical size.

It is the largest of terrestrial mustelids ; only the marine-dwelling sea otter and giant otter of the Amazon basin are larger.

* 1287 – December 14 – A fringing barrier between the North Sea and a shallow lake in Holland collapses during a heavy storm, causing the fifth largest flood in recorded history which creates the Zuider Zee inlet and kills over 50, 000 people ; it also gives sea access to Amsterdam, allowing its development as an important port city.

The largest living chelonian is the leatherback sea turtle ( Dermochelys coriacea ), which reaches a shell length of and can reach a weight of over.

The largest ever chelonian was Archelon ischyros, a Late Cretaceous sea turtle known to have been up to long.

The largest islands are deeply indented by arms of the sea such as Loch Ròg, Loch Seaforth and Loch nam Madadh.

** In the Netherlands, a fringing barrier between the North Sea and a shallow lake collapses, causing the fifth largest flood in recorded history which creates the Zuider Zee inlet and kills over 50, 000 people ; it also gives sea access to Amsterdam, allowing its development as an important port city.

They range in size from the small dwarf lanternshark ( Etmopterus perryi ), a deep sea species of only in length, to the whale shark ( Rhincodon typus ), the largest fish in the world, which reaches approximately.

The Oriental small-clawed otter is smallest otter species and the giant otter and sea otter are the largest.

At elevations over ) above sea level they are the largest two plateau freshwater lakes in China.

The largest living species of sea snail is Syrinx aruanus ; its shell can measure up to in length, and the whole animal with the shell can weigh up to.

* Da Nang-Tien Sa seaport is the third largest sea port in Vietnam after Ho Chi Minh City and Hai Phong ; handles 3-4 million tons of cargo annually

Brest is also an important research centre, mainly focused on the sea, with among others the largest Ifremer ( French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea ) centre, le Cedre ( Centre of Documentation, Research and Experimentation on Accidental Water Pollution ) and the French Polar Institute.

Brest claims to be the largest European centre for sciences and techniques linked to the sea: 60 % of the French research in the maritime field is based in Brest.

Lake Chad has shrunk considerably since the 1960s, when its shoreline had an elevation of about above sea level and it had an area of more than, making its surface the fourth largest in Africa.

Because of the fragility of cast-iron connecting rods, " singles " continued to be used, with the largest driving wheels possible.

Under Perkins and Jordan's successor as chief rod builder, Howard Steere, Orvis became the world's largest and most versatile manufacturer of high-quality fly rods and reels.

In addition to the largest bore and stroke, the AMX 390 motor also got heavier main bearing support webbing and a forged steel crankshaft and connecting rods.

The bike introduced several new design concepts such as the " semi-pivotless frame ", side radiators, single-casting engine case, connecting rods with cap screws instead of nuts, and the largest carburetors Honda ever put on a motorcycle ( 48 mm ).

There are eight states in which the largest urban vote can be the balance of power in any close election.

Coconuts, the fruit of the coconut palm, have the largest of all known seeds and are grown in South Pacific islands as a crop for domestic and export markets.

You are now facing the Pantheon, the largest and best-preserved building still standing from the days of ancient Rome.

The largest and most complex marine forms are called seaweeds.

The largest South Atlantic basins are the Angola, Cape, Argentina, and Brazil basins.

The three largest communities above the Arctic Circle are situated in Russia: Murmansk ( population 325, 100 ), Norilsk ( 135, 000 ), and Vorkuta ( 85, 000 ).

The order Asterales currently includes eleven families, the largest of which are the Asteraceae, with about 25, 000 species, and the Campanulaceae (" Bellflowers "), with about 2, 000 species.

The two largest basins on the plateau are the Konya Ovasi and the basin occupied by the large salt lake, Tuz Gölü.

Kurdish, with 15 %, constitute a major community in southeastern Anatolia, and are the largest ethnic minority.

* The oldest and largest is the Brahmic family of India and Southeast Asia, in which vowels are marked with diacritics and syllable-final consonants, when they occur, are indicated with ligatures, diacritics, or with a special vowel-canceling mark.

The largest applications for metallic antimony are as alloying material for lead and tin and for lead antimony plates in lead-acid batteries.

The five largest modern countries that are mainly archipelagos are Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.

The largest genera are Allium ( 260-690 species ), Nothoscordum ( 25 ), and Tulbaghia ( 22 ).

The largest roads, constructed at the same time as many of the great house sites ( between 1000 and 1125 CE ), are: the Great North Road, the South Road, the Coyote Canyon Road, the Chacra Face Road, Ahshislepah Road, Mexican Springs Road, the West Road and the shorter Pintado-Chaco Road.

In modern times, the largest Andean cities are Bogota, Colombia, with a population of about eight million, La Paz, Bolivia, and Quito, Ecuador.

Only small, isolated sections are left standing with the largest portion lying in a pile of rubble that stretches the length of where the aqueducts once stood.

The largest species are red alder ( A. rubra ) on the west coast of North America, and black alder ( A. glutinosa ), native to most of Europe and widely introduced elsewhere, both reaching over 30 m. By contrast, the widespread Alnus viridis ( green alder ) is rarely more than a 5 m tall shrub.

The North Kuril Ainu of Zaporozhye are currently the largest Ainu subgroup in Russia.

* 1363 – Beginning date of the Battle of Lake Poyang ; the forces of two Chinese rebel leaders — Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang — are pitted against each other in what is one of the largest naval battles in history, during the last decade of the ailing, Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty.

The largest population clusters of North America ( the Boston – Washington, San Francisco-San Diego, Chicago – Pittsburgh, and Quebec City – Windsor Corridors ) are all thousands of kilometers away from Alberta.

According to Alberta Venture magazine's list of the 50 largest employers in the province, the largest employers are:

ASU's faculty and students are served by two dedicated general-topic libraries: Hayden Library, which is the largest of the ASU libraries and is located on the Tempe campus, and Fletcher Library, located on the west campus.