Views of tourists and vacationers aimed at the Red Sea and his card will find a lot on his shores best places for relax.
There are several countries in this part of the planet, whose resorts are ready to meet travelers for almost a year, the benefit of the climate, weather, air temperature and water have to do so. What can the Red Sea map offer? First of all, these are the resorts of Egypt, located along the two shores: on the mainland and on the Sinai peninsula (Arabian).
Red Sea Beach Recreation Map: Mainland Egypt
The famous resorts of Egypt accommodated on the mainland (Africa). Hurghada is primarily suitable for family leisure and recreation with children. The resort of Elguna (El Gouna) very much like romantic, in love with couples, artists, musicians, ideal for wedding tours, and is also called "Venice" of Egypt. This is also a quiet, however, a luxurious and expensive resort.
Or the Arabian bay is a big bay Indian Oceanseparating Arabia from Egypt and Abyssinia. With the Indian Ocean, the Red Sea is connected to the Bab El Mandantry Strait, and in the north it is adjacent to the Suezstroy. Located between paral. 12 ° 40 "and 30 ° С. Ш. And between meridians 32 ° 20" and 43 ° 25 "C. D. from Grinich. Surface Red Sea 449010 square. km; Almost 2/3 of the sea lie in a tropical belt. Name Red Sea It appeared, apparently, part of the bottom of the bottom of the bottom off the coast, part of the color of the water produced by zoophytes and microscopic algae. Shores Red Sea The larger part of the low, in the north is adjacent to the deserts, in the southern part of the West Bank adjoins the mountainous aviation; Many coral reefs scattered throughout the coastal, especially Arabian, and places stretching for a large distance from the coast make up a distinguishing line of the coast Red Sea. The southern part of the sea is replete with Islands: Dagalyak and Arabia-Farizan; south of the last, almost in the middle of the sea, volcanic islands Travel-Teira and Zhurbel-Tukur. In the north part of the sea, only two islands are closer to the middle of the sea, the islands of brothers and Dadulus.
The very saline and the warmest on globe. The average salinity reaches 3.98%, at high depths salinity exceeds even 4%. In the Suez Channel, especially as. Approach to the bitter lake, salinity over 5%. The temperature of the water on the surface in March - April in the southern part of the sea to 30 ° C., and in north to 22 ° C.; At a depth of 1240 m. It is 21.4 ° C. With a surface temperature of 25.3 ° C. It is believed that the temperature at large depths is almost constant to the bottom and about 21 ° C. The causes of high salinity and temperature are in climatic conditions.
Surrounded by the warmest countries of the globe; There is no permanent river in it, there is little precipitation, evaporation is great - all this favors high salinity, then the average winter temperature is 21.4 ° C. Thanks to the fact that the salinity of water Red Sea more than the salinity of the water of the Indian Ocean, in depths water seeks from Red Sea In the ocean, and therefore the ocean is warmed, and this is the likely cause of the highest temperature of the depths of the Indian Ocean in the north of its western part. During the domination of the monsoon, i.e. in summer, the surface current has southern direction, noticed then almost all over Red Sea.But it reaches its special strength in the Bab El Mandantry Strait. Flips and flows in the Red Sea are not very studied. Climate Red Sea One of the hottest on the globe, especially from May to September.
Swimming along the shores Red Sea It is extremely difficult reefs, but the middle of the sea is quite convenient for swimming steam vessels with a sufficient reserve of coal, the sailing ships have to always fight with nozzles, spreading rather major excitement. Ports little; In addition to Suez, most often visited by the courts of Zhambo, Jedda, a year old, logic and mox at the Arabian coast and Massov, Suakov and Kosseir in the African coast. Suakov - the main port of Sudan, Jedda is the place of landing of the pilgrims following in Mecca. Before entering B. , in the Gulf of Aden, are colonies: French skills and English aden. The latter is visited by almost all vessels walking from Europe through the Suez Canal to the Indian Ocean; They are soaring coal here and proviste. In ancient times He played a big role. It served the Phoenicians to trade with India. In the Middle Ages, it served as a trading path for Venice, Pisa, Marseille, etc.
With the opening of the Cape of Good Hope lost its worldwide importance; Only intercourse between Arabia, on the one hand, and Abyssine and Egypt on the other hand, were conducted through it. Mostly it was visited by pilgrims. Since 1840, there was a message between Egypt and Jedda, on Peninsular Et Oriental Steam Navigation Company. Genius Lesseps Reta Red Sea. His world importance. With the opening in 1869 Suez Canal became the main transit path from Europe to the port of Asia. Thanks to the channel, freight and passenger traffic between the European ports and the most distant outskirts east Asia. And for Russia It is of great importance by presenting a convenient way for a relatively ambulance on the vapors of the voluntary fleet of cargo, passengers, troops, etc. in our oriental outskirts and, finally, for our tea trading with China.
Very young. Its formation began about 40 million years ago, when a crack appeared in the earth's crust and an East African fever was formed. The African continental plate was separated from Arabian, and a failure was formed between them in the earthly crust, which gradually for thousands of years was filled with sea water. Plates move constantly, so relatively smooth shores Red Sea Dissolve in different directions at a speed of 10 mm per year, or 1 m in a century.
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The source of plastic waste is not so many vacationers on the beaches. There are a lot of certificates about the garbage, which in open discount from boats and ferries. Bedouin is difficult to understand that the plastic thrown into them harms their environment. They dealt with the generations only with the Organic, and this behavior is still considered the norm. Bedouins to this day are fishing on the territory of the nature reserves and caught mollusks. In place of intense diving Corrals are damaged by novice submariners.
Flora and fauna
In terms of quality and variety of corals, sea flora and fauna Red Sea. No equal in the northern hemisphere. Tourist boom engulfed in last years The Egyptian coast of the Red Sea is largely due to the unique and incredibly rich underwater world of this tropical sea, the popularization of snorkeling.
Coral reefs stretched along the entire Egyptian coast are a kind of vital center that attracts many fish. It strikes the variety of coral forms, which can be round, flat, branched, and also have other fantastic forms and color gamut - from gently yellow and pink to brown and blue. But the color retains only living corals, after death they lose soft coating fabrics and only the white calcium skeleton remains. In the Egyptian laws of the coral colony can not be destroyed.
AT Red Sea Bottle-like dolphins, various types of striped dolphin and linations are widespread. It is quite possible to meet under water and with a green turtle. Amazing needle-skinned elongated shape - sea cucumbers - live on sea Dn., sharks are found, they chose the Sudan coast for themselves. Some ichthyologists and divers claim that the shark has a rather peaceful, and they are extremely timid. Seeing people, they strive to retreat.
Moray, adapted to life on reefs, can reach 3 meters long and have a rather awesome look. But, mostly, if they do not tease them, they are not dangerous for a person.
Here you can meet and Napoleon's fish, who gained its name due to the characteristic protrusion on the head, which resembles the headdress of the French emperor. These fish are especially numerous in the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula.
They are distinguished by bright coloring angels and butterfly fish, clown fish and sultanka.
Amazingly colorful and diverse underwater world Red Sea You will delight diving lovers and all holidaymakers in the Krasnomora resorts.
red Sea Map
The Red Sea is one of the most famous and visited seas in the world. Enjoy tremendous success for divers and lovers to soak in calm waves.
Red sea
The Red Sea is one of the inner seas owned by the pool. His water is rightfully considered the most salty in the world. In the Red Sea there are many species of representatives of flora and fauna. It can be called one of beautiful seas World.
The water of the Red Sea is washed by the shores of two continents: and. The area of \u200b\u200bthe water area is 450 tons km2.
The relief of the seabed has a varied landscape. In the southern part of the water area there is a shallow depth of which is about 200 meters. It has indigenous and coral islands. There is also a sweep, which is located on most of the sea. Its average depth is 1000 m. In addition to it there is a deeper gutter, with a maximum depth of 3040 m. However, the average depth of the Red Sea is 437 m.
In the northern part of the Red Sea there is practically no islands. One of the most major island Tyran is considered. In the southern part of the water area, several groups consisting of small islands are formed. In the southwestern part are located large groups, for example, Dahlak, and smaller sizes are the archipelagoes of Suakin, Faras and Khanish. Also in this part of the sea there are also individual islands, such as Camaran Island.
In the northern part of the coast there are two large bays, which through the strait of tyran connect to the sea. This is Akab and Suez Bay. Upon the bottom of the Aqab's Gulf, the depth in which can reach 1800 meters.
Another feature of the Red Sea is the complete absence of flowing rivers. In connection with this feature, water in the sea is very transparent, since the rivers usually bring sand, clay and il, which is subsequently reflected on the transparency of sea water.
Another feature of this delightful part is an increased salinity of water. In one liter of sea water contains 41 grams of salt, which significantly exceeds the indicators of the other seas and oceans. For example, in the Indian Ocean, this indicator does not exceed 34 grams per liter of seawater. By salt in seawater, the Red Sea ranks first in the world.
The sediments over the sea is quite rare. They fall out several times a year, and only in the cool winter months. All of them are not more than 100 millimeters per year. It evaporates significantly more - 2000 millimeters, that is, 20 times more. If calculating, more than 0.5 centimeters of water occurs every day. The complete lack of water intake from the mainland fills the water exchange with Adenian Baythrough which red merges with. Also in the sea water area there are currents located in the Bab El Mandant Gulf. These flows simultaneously move in the Red Sea and from it.
Tourists from all over the world of warm Red Sea in Sudan, Israel, Egypt, and Eritrea to see the diversity of his underwater world. There are huge coral reefs that stretch along the coast of Egypt and many fish and marine inhabitants. For example bottled dolphins, tales, angels, butterfly fish, butterfly fish, sultanka, clown fish, moray, sharks and a variety of needle-skinned, such as sea cucumber.
A tropically deserted climate over all coasts of the Red Sea. Only the extreme north of the sea coast is located in the Mediterranean climate area.
Cold period - from December to January, warm from July to September. In the cool months, the temperature can reach 20-25 degrees. In the summer months, it rises to 35-40, and in the hottest August, it can reach 500 Celsius.
Due to such a high temperature, the African coast, the temperature on the water surface in winter is plus 20c, and in the summer not lower than 27.
Good to you crystal clear water!
Place Location: between the Arabian Peninsula and Africa
Washes the shores of countries: Egypt, Sudan, Djibouti, Eritrea, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Israel, Jordan
Square: 438,000 km²
The greatest depth: 2211 M.
Coordinates: 20 ° 44 "41.1" N 37 ° 55 "27.9" E
The Red Sea, located in the tectonic depression and is the inner sea of \u200b\u200bthe third in size on our planet of the Indian Ocean, is considered the youngest and most interesting on the variety of flora and fauna.
It is located between African continent and the Arabian Peninsula. The Red Sea is connected to Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean, through everything well known, Suez Canal.
Speaking of the Red Sea, attention should be paid to the fact that it is considered the most salty of all seas, which are part of the world ocean, ishing all the continents of our planet.
"Why is this this sea the most salty of all seas?", - Maybe a person who does not know the geography and the location of the Red Sea too well. The thing is that the Red Sea is the only sea around the world, in which there is no freshwater river. Naturally, it is significantly inferior by salt content. Dead Sea. However, it should be remembered that almost a living organism is not able to survive in the Dead Sea, and the Red Sea is striking even experienced divers abundance of life forms. And this is despite the fact that the salinity of the water of the magnificent Red Sea is up to 60 grams of salts per liter of water taken for laboratory analysis.
As a comparison, the salinity of water, popular among domestic tourists of the Black Sea - it is only 18 grams of salts per liter of water.
In addition, describing the Red Sea, which is rightfully considered one of seven wonders of the underwater world , It is impossible not to mention that it is also the warmest sea on the planet. It is warmed not only the rays of the sun, but also the earthly mantle, that is, in the Red Sea, unlike the other seas, it is not cold from depths, and warm water layers. In winter, water warms up to 21 - 23 degrees Celsius, and in the summer up to +30. because of high temperatures Water and its constant evaporation of the Red Sea and became the most salty in the world, naturally, after the dead.
Origin of the name of the Red Sea
The Red Sea, according to the most modest assumptions of scientists, originated 25 million years ago. Therefore, to find out why the Red Sea was called "red", alas, it is impossible. There are only a few versions of the origin of the name of the Red Sea, although it is immediately worth a reservation, none of them cannot be considered reliable.
According to the first version, the name happened from the ancient language of Chemicals - the people who lived in South Arabia long before these lands were captured by Arabs. The conquerors tried for a long time to decipher the writing of the seven and decided to read three letters "X", "M" and "P" on their way - "Akhmar", which is translated and means red. This assumption can be considered as a version that does not deserve special attention: It is difficult to imagine that the Arabs decided to add vowels in someone else's language to get the word that would have been familiar to them, because they were engaged in deciphering the language, and not his merger with their own.
The second version, according to historians, is more believable, although it is connected with the myths of many nations who have inepeting the territory near the Red Sea. Each of the parts of the world was associated with them with a certain color. The red color was associated with the south, where it was the sea, from here and his name happened. According to the documents that survived to this day, and were deciphered by scientists, the Red Sea was mentioned in the 2nd century BC, and in the 16th century some researchers called this sea, which is part of the Indian Ocean - Suez.
As mentioned above, the sea was formed in the time India started their movement to asian mainland , And this event has occurred long before the first person appeared on Earth, so it's known to know why the Most Salted Sea, which is part of the World Ocean, got the name "Red", will probably not succeed.
Long history of the youngest Sea
For the entire period of its existence, the Red Sea, despite its young age (naturally, according to geological standards), survived a number of changes and cataclysms. For 25 million years, that for our planet can be considered only a short moment, the world's ocean constantly hesitated, which, by the way, is happening. Melted glaciers, new ones were formed; The ocean waters were rising, they went down to dozens, or even hundreds of meters. As soon as the World Ocean level has fallen significantly, the Red Sea turned into a huge salt lake, where the salt content exceeded the amount of salt on the liter of water in the Dead Sea.
By the way, at the moment with the ocean, the sea connects the Bab El Mandantry Strait. Most deep place Strait - 184 meters. It is worth only to imagine what will happen if a new ice age and the world's ocean will fall 190 meters. The Red Sea will cease to communicate with the waters of the Indian Ocean and will once again become dead. However, our contemporaries and descendants are not threatened. Such a decrease in the level of world ocean occurs over hundreds of thousands of years, so amazing beauty sea that is washes the shores of Sudan, Israel , Saudi Arabia, Jordania And, of course, Egypt It will delight everyone who wishes to see all the wealth of the underwater world, which can be found only in the Red Sea or on barrier reefs.
Scientists found that the Red Sea quite often lost the "Communication" with the World Ocean, and his coast was drowning, and was covered with salt. As a result, even now on the shores of the Red Sea, alas, you will not meet violent vegetation, and from the spring, driving a key, will not get quenched thirst. Water under the ground is also salty taste. Surprisingly, even the rains in the Red Sea area will not give the soil of a lifeful moisture, they, like the sea, and sources near him, salty.
Red Sea Forest
Yes, yes, dear reader, you did not hear at all, in the northernmost part of the Red Sea there is a forest consisting of mangrove thickets. This forest is included in the reserve, the name of the NAP. Only mangars can grow in salted water and do not need constant access to the root system of oxygen.
This amazing plant can take an excess salt through its leaves, and the lifeless fresh moisture feeds wood. Mangra is usually fixed in such a way that through them to get through a person is pretty difficult, and hitting a certain area, it is easy to be trapped from which it is impossible to get out without any assistance. In the mangrove thickets of the Red Sea lives a huge number of animals and feathers, observation of the life of which are engaged in the reserve ornithologists and zoologists.
Flora and Fauna of the Red Sea
If you say that The Red Sea is a real paradise for divers, fishermen and people who are fond of underwater huntingThis will not be an exaggeration. It is only worth putting the mask and take the phone, as the coast itself you can see the charging underwater world with a lot of multi-colored corals, sponges, sea ends and fish.
Sometimes it seems that each type competes here with each other in brightness of the color and unusual forms. Warm and crystal clear waters of the Red Sea allow here to exist here a variety of types of underwater flora and fauna, most of which are endemics. Life under water here boils and does not freeze even deep at night.
Only today, scientists who carry out studies of the depths of the Red Sea are found and described almost 1,500 invertebrates, and almost the same species of fish. Almost 300 types of corals live in the waters of the Red Sea, the reproduction of which is a fantastic picture.
Huge sea turtle And the frozen dolphins are complemented by an amazing landscape and tell the tourist about what he got into place where the underwater life is revealed in front of a person in all its glory.
It is surprising that, according to ichthyologists, in our time there are no more than 60% of the underwater inhabitants of the Red Sea. The biggest depth of this unique in its kind is more than 3 kilometers, which means that most deep-sea fish are not yet known to science. While only forty-three kinds of fish dwelling at high depths are open. Also, the Red Sea constantly puts all new and new riddles before scientists. It is still unknown why about 30% of the inhabitants of the northern part of the sea cannot live in another part of it.
It seems that the invisible border does not allow them to move from north to south. Although the chemical composition of water and temperature regime in these areas is almost identical. Maybe the reason lies in the word "almost"? ...
Despite the extraterrestrial beauty of the underwater world, the Red Sea pays a lot of dangers. Touching the beautiful corals, sponges or bizarre jellyfish in the sea is strictly prohibited. This is written in almost every tourist prospect. An injection sea hedgehog Or the bite of a poisonous underwater snake, the toothy moray can lead to a burn, an allergic reaction, a large blood loss, and sometimes to the death of the victim.
Immersing in the depths of the Red Sea, it is necessary to remember that it is home for 44 types of sharks. Some of them are quite harmless creatures that live only at large depths and feed on plankton or petty fish. However, among them there are also the most dangerous species for humans, for example, a tiger shark, which often attacks a person without a visible reason. Her mouth is littered with huge sharp teeth, which can easily tear the limb. Alas, but recently, the attacks of tiger sharks on holidaymakers have become increasingly and more often, which, for the most part, was most often ended with fatal. There is evidence that in the Red Sea saw a large white shark, which is even on the recognition of scientists, the machine for killing.
