Andong Lake, East China Sea, Han River, Imjin River, Jeju Strait, Korea Bay, Korea Strait, Kum River, Naktong River, Namhan River, Paroho Lake, Puk'an River, Sea of Japan (East Sea), Soyang Lake, Tushima Strait and Yellow Sea. ...
The map is the story: the U-shaped line in western news media coverage of the geopolitics of the South China SeaGeopoliticscartographynews-mediaChina's claim to a large part of the South China Sea (SCS) is indicated by a specific cartographic convention, the U-shaped (or dashed) line, ...
Republic of China (Taiwan); Vietnam. Source: Revised by author based on the map drawn by the US Central Intelligence Agency, Washington, DC in 1995. The islands in the South China Sea are important for strategic and political reasons, because ownership claims to them can be used to bolster...
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Situated to the south of China's mainland, and connected by narrow straits and waterways with the Pacific Ocean to the east and the Indian Ocean to the west, the South China Sea is a semi-closed sea extending from northeast to southwest. To its north are the mainland and Taiwan Dao of ...
Fig. 1. Topographic map of the South China Sea, showing the major structural elements and basins (modified after L. Li et al., 2014). Solid white lines demarcate the approximate transition zone of the Continent-Ocean Boundary (COB) based on seafloor spreading anomalies of Briais et al., ...
Geo Map - Asia - Japan Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south. The...
Topographic map of the South China Sea Its seabed terrains are very complicated. Continental shelves account for half of its area, and the other half includes continental slopes, deep-sea basins, trenches, and troughs. The South China Sea is at a relatively low latitude, and the annual averag...
China's claim to a large part of the South China Sea (SCS) is indicated by a specific cartographic convention, the U-shaped (or dashed) line, shown on its official maps. The line has become an important element in Western popular discourse concerning the geopolitics of the SCS. This paper...
Fig. 1: Location and cross-section of the northern South China Sea continental margin. aHighly extended continental margin of the northern South China Sea. The extent of highly extended continental margin is modified from previous research35.b,cSeismic interpretation of X–X′ (white line ina) ...