Fiji [1] ( born Fiji ) is an inter-island sea in the south-west of the Pacific Ocean [1] .
| Fiji Sea | |
|---|---|
| Characteristics | |
| Area | 3177 [1] thousand km² |
| Volume | 8706 [2] km³ |
| Deepest | 7633 [1] m |
| Average depth | 2740 [2] m |
| Location | |
In the north it is limited by the Fiji islands, in the east by the islands of Kermadek , in the south by New Zealand and the Tasman Sea , in the west by the Coral Sea . The area is 3177 thousand km² [1] . Named conditionally by the sea, by the presence of a deep basin in this region; the average depth is 2740 m [2] , the largest is 7633 [1] (6948 [2] [3] ) m . The temperature of surface water is from 18-23 ° C in the southeast to 25-28 ° C in the north. Salinity is 34.9–35.5 ‰ . The bottom relief is complex, underwater ridges and volcanoes . Semidiurnal tides 1.5 - 3.0 m . The main port is Suva ( Fiji ).
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 Geographic Encyclopedic Dictionary: Geographic Names / Ed. A.F. Treshnikov . - 2nd ed., Ext. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia , 1989. - S. 513. - 210 000 copies. - ISBN 5-85270-057-6 .
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Morphometric characteristics // Atlas of the oceans: Pacific / holes. Ed .: S. G. Gorshkov ; ch. Ed .: V.I. Faleev , L.A. Demin . - L .: Ch. control navigation and oceanography Min. Defense of the USSR, 1974. - S. 20.
- ↑ B. S. Zalogin, A. N. Kosarev. Sea of Fiji // Sea. - M .: Thought , 1999 .-- S. 328—334. - (Nature of the world). - 3000 copies. - ISBN 5-244-00624-X.