North Sea
General data
- Water type: Sae
- Progression: Atlantic Ocean -> Planet Earth
- Climates: Subpolar
- Continents: Europe
- Countries: Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, England (UK), Scotland (UK)
Description
The North Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean between Great Britain (specifically England and Scotland), Jutland (in Denmark), Norway, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and Hauts-de-France (in France). An epeiric sea on the European continental shelf, it connects to the ocean through the English Channel in the south and the Norwegian Sea in the north. It is more than 970 kilometres (600 mi) long and 580 kilometres (360 mi) wide, covering 570,000 square kilometres (220,000 sq mi).
Rivers
Bays
Canals
Salmoniformes - Salmons and Trouts
Acipenseriformes - Sturgeons and Paddlefish
Anguilliformes - Eels and morays
Scombriformes - Mackerels
Gadiformes - Cods
Pleuronectiformes - Flatfishes
Lamniformes - Mackerel sharks
Carcharhiniformes - Ground sharks
Osmeriformes - Smelts
Myxiniformes - Hagfishes
Zeiformes - Dories
Squaliformes - Sleeper and dogfish sharks
Scorpaeniformes - Mail-cheeked fishes
Lophiiformes - Anglerfishes
Clupeiformes - Herrings
Notacanthiformes - Spiny eels
Saccopharyngiformes - Swallowers and Gulpers
Rajiformes - Skates and rays
Labriformes - Wrasses
Trachiniformes - Weeverfishes
Catches
