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Mammea asiaticaL. Michelia asiatica(L.) Kuntze. Mitraria commersoniaJ.F.Gmel. Barringtonia asiatica, also known as fish poison tree, putator sea poison tree, is a species of Barringtonianative to mangrovehabitats from islands of the Indian Ocean in the west to tropical Asia and islands of the western Pacific Ocean. [4][5] Description.
The Haijin ( 海禁) or sea ban were a series of related isolationist policies in China restricting private maritime trading and coastal settlement during most of the Ming dynasty and early Qing dynasty . The policy introduced by the Ming founder Zhu Yuanzhang significantly hampered the growth of China's domestic trade, [1] although the Ming ...
Map of the Banda Sea Plate. The Banda arc is famous for its 180° curvature and is, in Timor, generally agreed to be the product of a collision between a volcanic arc and the Australian continental margin. [2] [3] The Banda Sea occupies the main portion of the Banda Sea Plate. The southern margin of the sea consists of island arcs above ...
The sea otter ( Enhydra lutris) is a marine mammal native to the coasts of the northern and eastern North Pacific Ocean. Adult sea otters typically weigh between 14 and 45 kg (30 and 100 lb), making them the heaviest members of the weasel family, but among [ 3] the smallest marine mammals. Unlike most marine mammals, the sea otter's primary ...
The South China Sea is a marginal sea of the Western Pacific Ocean.It is bounded in the north by South China, in the west by the Indochinese Peninsula, in the east by the islands of Taiwan and northwestern Philippines (mainly Luzon, Mindoro and Palawan), and in the south by Borneo, eastern Sumatra and the Bangka Belitung Islands, encompassing an area of around 3,500,000 km 2 (1,400,000 sq mi).
West Philippine Sea ( Filipino: Karagatang Kanlurang Pilipinas; [ 2] abbreviated as WPS) is the official designation by the government of the Philippines to the parts of the South China Sea that are included in the country's exclusive economic zone. The term is also sometimes incorrectly used to refer to the entire South China Sea.
The exclusive economic zone of the Philippines (Philippine EEZ ), per the mandate of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), consists of four subzones. [ 1 ] It covers 2,263,816 square kilometers (874,064 sq mi) of sea. The Philippines has 7,641 islands comprising the Philippine archipelago. [ 2 ]
May 27, 2024 at 3:41 AM. MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines has protested China's imposition of a unilateral four-month long fishing ban in the South China Sea, its foreign ministry said on Monday ...