The Caspian: Sea or Lake?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 เม.ย. 2018
- There's some confusion around the Caspian Sea, namely, is it actually a sea? Don't we usually call fully enclosed bodies of water, lakes? Hopefully this clears things up a little.
Music provided by StoneOcean: / stone_ocean
Start of video: Is it a *lake* or a *sea*
End of video: Perhaps it's best to keep calling it an *OCEAN*
My sentiments exactly
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As a Brit, I think we should all just be civil about it, and to avoid any conflicts we should consider the whole thing as British waters.
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.
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@@learner_academyEspecially a britisher's greed
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Is the Aral Sea a lake or a sea?
"It's just land."
I remember when the Aral Sea was a sea .... In this video, you can see what's left of it occasionally :(
@@backalleycqc4790 now it Maybe be bigger
It would be great to get it back, let's hope the countries around it can see the value in having the Sea restored.
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We all know
The last part was a nice surprise. I never thought of the implications of what the Caspian was identified as.
Glad you enjoyed :)
Anand R Agreed! Who knew? I didnt.
Yeah, I thought the bit where the naughty little gnome poked its head in from the top was a nice touch.
Agreed
bodies of water now have gender identities i guess
“The caspian sea is rich in both oil and natural resources”
*america has entered the chat*
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Calm your tits. Russia already has its hand there.
British Petroleum is there already
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Much larger than Aral Sea ever was.
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I think the saltiness is what made people think it's a sea.
The Dead Sea would be an even smaller example.
And also the so called sea of Galilee
The difference is that those two get their names from the bible, and while bible people knew that those lakes werent as vast as the mediterranean the word "sea" was used for any body of water really
Don't forget about the Great Salt Lake. It might be a lake per say because of the salt content technically it's a totally land lock sea.
@@accessaf actually sea of Galilee/Tibris sea has freshwater, not salty at all.
The Baltic sea, for example is almost fresh, especially in its eastern part, but it still is a sea and it is connected to the ocean.
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There’s a giant fact missing here! There is oceanic crust under the Caspian Sea!
That doesn't really have any bearing on how we define ocean/sea though.
It is but mostly in the southern part. It was part of the Tethys ocean.
Below the oceans there are very huge chunks of continental crust, and some seas (sometimes quite huge) are entirely on this crust. So, it’s all still more or less arbitrary
Can we just agree that Caspian used to be a sea then turned into a lake after some tectonic events? Its basically a basin right now, there is no outflow towards the ocean, and it's surrounded by land, and rivers feed it water. Thus it's a lake..
There is oceanic crust even below northern India gangetic plain and Himalayan mountain
Excellent lesson. Like one of the kid’s on “South Park” used to say, “I’ve learned something today.”
Thank you.
Calling the Caspian sea a lake is like calling every land mass an island because technically they all are surrounded by water...
The arabs call the *whole* World a "territory", and since god promise the land to them, and since all the the SEAS and Oceans are above land, the Atlantic ocean is a SEA territory, LOL!
@@rogerdiogo6893 where did god promise the Arabs all the lands of the earth to them ? And which God was it ?
@@rogerdiogo6893 That sounds like Zionist Jews, not Arabs.
I don't remember a covenant God (SWT) made with the Arabs; nor the Arabs sinning after that covenant and hhavingg that land taken away.
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I actually live between the Black and Caspian seas in the Stavropol region, and to this day you can find sea shells in your backyard even though there has been no sea for millions of years, pretty cool.
5:01 Saying "Kazakhstan having the most coastline..." is a strange sentence.
I think you have it the other way around. A lake would have equal borders, a sea has exclusive economic zones. I’m minoring in maritime law so I’m reasonably sure. Great vid tho.
You are correct
Studynharder because u are wrong. If its a sea its international waters meaning usa can go in the middle of it and poop
For the Exclusive Economic Zone, it extends for 200 nautical miles, approximately 370 kilometers off of the nations coast. Because of the dimensions of Caspian (436km at widest point), this claimed area accounts for the whole of the 'sea', and therefore leaves no extra for international waters.Not sure what the system is for a lake, though.
@@hhiippiittyy The EEZ extends 200 nmi, yes, but an EEZ still qualifies as international waters, at least partially. The EEZ doesnt restrict access, only in the territorial and contiguous zones (24 nmi) can a country apply its laws. EEZ only restricts things like oil drilling or fishing or other economic activities. So for example, the Russians could drive a battleship through an EEZ without international penalties, whereas if it was divided like a lake with territorial boundaries equally dividing it, the Russians would need to get permission from every country whose territorial waters they would be crossing.
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Ah, right on. Thank you.
I really want to keep calling it a sea. There's something about having an inland sea that's just really cool and fascinating. It looks like a beautiful place, I'd love to visit it some day.
5:08 Isn't that the other way around? :v I've always thought that the lakes get to be divided whole between countries (e.g. the Great Lakes and the Bodensee) and that the seas must have the international waters further from the coastline (like the Baltic Sea and the Mediterranean).
I guess when the neighbors play fair, it can be done any way. But in this matter, I see a few foul players around. Just my opinion
Yeah, I'm almost positive that's the way it's done (my father is a fisherman who uses that extra fishing zone).
It really feels like an error. We don't have the whole Atlantic devided between countries. Only the areas near the coast.
Yeah you’re correct
a bit off topic, but isn't the Bodensee a strange border anomaly where neither Germany, Austria, or Switzerland actually own it, but just agree to not make a big deal out of it?
The Caspian is a hybrid lake-sea. There is no such thing as a lake with an ocean basin. The Caspian's southern half is oceanic. Only the northern half actually has a continental basin. Since its basin is partially oceanic and its water is adequately salty, the Caspian should be officially considered a sea, even though it is geologically a hybrid.
Too bad that 2 countries with nukes on their pockets wont let that happen
You Explained it better, it is a sea.
We dont define lakes according to their crust, also, going by this, what shall the waters around new zealand and new caledonia be considered as?
@@ignemuton5500 Actually, the type of basin a body of water has DOES contribute to its definition. The Caspian Sea is a hybrid sea because it is fully enclosed, has a continental basin, but also has an ocean basin because it was once directly connected to an ocean. The seawater over the top of a continental shelf is defined as a proper sea, gulf, bay, sound or strait, depending on its shape and function. If it's more of a brackish lake that's still connected to the ocean, it's basically a very big estuary. Seas generally extend past the continental shelf; bodies of seawater that do not are generally called gulfs or sounds. Or Hudson Bay.
I have no idea why the sea coming off of the southeastern portion of Zealandia has no name.
Thanks Atarah what an amazing way to know about caspian i recenctly had friends who were in baku and told me about caspian
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"All enclosed bodies of water... are lakes!"
"If it's salty... IT'S A SEA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
I understood that reference
Just melt Antarctica icecap. Caspian once again part of ocean.
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Not quite
I'm on it! {starts up gas-guzzling truck and lets it idle for a few hours}
If all the ice melted it would be connected to the black sea and the black sea is connected to the ocean
Well, that's more or less what we're up to anyway.
Recently in August 2018, They resolved the issue by declaring 15 N. miles from the coastline as sovereign water and EEZ with further 10 N. Miles to be used for fishing and beyond this would be open water.
So it's lake than? Why wasn't it renamed on maps? Caspian Late, as it should be called.
@@ScienceDiscoverer Actually the video is incorrect. the division he is using for lakes is used by oceans, not by lakes. Lakes are divided amongst the countries that boarder them while ocean territory drops off about 5 miles from the coast. In the case of 2018, the caspian was being treated like a sea and not like a lake.
As an example, 5 miles from the British coast you will enter UK waters. The North Sea is not given clear divisions with each country having a stake, it is measured by coastal distance.
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Conclusion:if caspian is a lake,
Australia is an island
Nice video! Could you make a video about Aral Sea next? It's sad to see a large body of water disappeared so quickly in just a few decades 😔 and how it has impacted the people who relied on that sea
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I'm a little bit late to this party, but in Serbian we do call it, in fact, Caspian lake (Kaspijsko jezero, Каспијско језеро). We were taught in school that "Caspian sea" is extremely outdated, but I do sometimes see some maps with "sea", although very, very, very rarely. When I first learned that it's called a sea in English, I was very surprised how this piece of information never got updated. Although "Holy Roman Empire" was not holy nor Roman nor an empire, so I guess I'm out...
I like Caspian Sea,it has salt water,it is big.Let's have one inland sea.
Especially as the second one already dried up.
If salt water lakes can be considered ocean, then I live next to a shallow ocean, even though I am in the middle of mountainous desert.
@@peterjones701 Utah's Great Salt Lake?
It's not even that salty
I'm mad seas aren't a word
@@andyfrost78 What's not even that salty? The Caspian Sea?
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Very nicely done. Crisp and clear. Editing is also great!
This was really excellent.
Thank you for this information!
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I like to think of Great Salt Lake, Aral, and Caspian Seas to be "Basins" rather than lakes or seas. The vast majority of seas and lakes have both an inlet AND an outlet. Ponds generally are areas that have inlets and no outlets so they stagnate, and Basins trend toward salinity. Just my 2 cents. Great production value and subject!
Yes, they are formally specifically known as endorheic basins.
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In Türkmenistan, we call it 'Hazar deňizi" Hazar sea
Hi from Turkey, we call it "Hazar Denizi" as well
In Azərbaycan it's called "Xəzər Dənizi" Khazar denizi
In India hazar means thousand
@@eurasballmapping4633 same as persian
@@ahmetfarukkrdemir2754 I think it came from persian
I lived near Kaspian Sea( in Kazakhstan), when I was small we used to have so much black caviar, mum mom used to force feed me the caviar, it used to be cheap.
Now it’s all gone! The oil extraction ruined ecology of the sea
and over harvesting
no, the oil drilling hasn't ruined anything. The reason why you don't eat caviar in that quantities anymore is that your mum ain't no more the secretary of the local Communist Party committee.
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Very informative, esp the effects that comes with it being called a lake or sea, the last part basically...well done
It is important to note that there are two definitions of the word sea, sea meaning large open expanse of water which is the Greco-Roman origin of the word, and sea meaning a body of salt water which is the middle Eastern origin of the word.
Caspian sea: *exists*
Russia: it's free real estate
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Caspian sea is called "Kaspijsko jezero" in Serbian, witch means "Caspian lake"
Iran considers it a territorial SEA, LOL!
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This geography video is about natural geography, not borders.
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4:20
USA: Caspian Sea wants some democracy?
*The caspian sea has weapons of mass destruction!*
We already have Britbong democracy and I want them to fuck off
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Some small nation on the Caspian Coast: L-lake? W-what do you mean it’s a sea? *looks around nervously*
It’s the other way around. A lake has shared borders and a sea or ocean has maritime exclusion zones
That was a very interesting and educational video. Thanks a lot!
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Tradition is only part of it. We've called many saltwater lakes 'seas' before, from the tiny Sea of Galilee to the somewhat larger Salton Sea that was created in 1905.
Both of those lakes are very obviously mere lakes as it's possible to see the other end in good weather. But they're salty, sea is salty, hence...a sea.
Interesting thing: in Chinese, "sea" and "lake" are two different characters with different meanings, almost as what's defined in the video. BUT, in some ethnic languages, north or south, they do call lakes "sea"! One example is the lakes in the Forbidden city in Beijing, are all called "sea"s. It's because the ruling Manchurian called lakes that way in their own language.
Besides, in Chinese, the Caspian Sea is "里海", literally meaning "inner sea".
In Chinese, calling it sea does not make it sea by definition though. It simply means this body of water is huge.
"О"- Озеро(rus)-Zero -"O" when coastline is closed. See -море (rus) - more than "O" - "C" - when the coastline is not closed.
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Great video! Thanks. It must remain the Caspian See, for 1) that will prevent new geopolitical problems; 2) it started out connected to the ocean.
Well, I doubt the publisher will ever see this, but I'll add my two cents anyway.
Salinity aside, it could be said the Caspian is the largest SINGLE lake on earth. But, it really isn't. A comparison was made with Lake Superior and as a single lake the conclusion here would be correct. However, Lake Superior is not just a single lake. It is, in fact, a single continuous body of fresh water and the largest such body on earth. All five of the Great Lakes are interconnected (no canals needed) and flow from one to another until they pass over Niagra Falls to Lake Ontario and eventually down the Saint Lawrence River to the Atlantic Ocean. Along the way these truly Great Lakes also get further input from Lake St. Claire (Detroit area) and the Georgian Bay (Canada) as well. This continuous body of fresh water is so vast it has an enormous effect on weather patterns, as any resident of the area can attest to the extremities of "Lake Effect" on local weatherl As a resident of this area for more decades than I'm willing to admit first hand knowledge and experience are my guide posts. Hope I've helped here.
Are they all literally connected, or is one connected by river? Also Lake Baikal is bigger than all five (barely) by volume.
Caspian has more surface area and volume (371,000 to 244,327 km2 and 78,200 to 22,250 km3).
What I find fascinating about the Great Lakes is knowing that Lake Michigan and Lake Huron are actually one lake. They form a single hydrological system, with a single water level, and currents that that flow in both directions through the Strait of Mackinac. The fact that they are linked in that way makes the combined Lake Michigan-Huron larger than Lake Superior in surface area. Superior is deeper, though, and contains a significantly larger volume of water than its downstream neighbor. Lake Superior is surpassed in volume, though, by Africa’s Lake Tanganyika, and Russia’s Lake Baikal. And the Caspian... um, Ocean.
I LOVE Geogophy and Oceanogophy, all my Life I have been fascinated with the Caspian sea, Black sea, and the Great Lakes, Yes you are right the Caspian sea is a Lake, because it is completely sounded by land with the exception of some river's, but it could also be classified as a Sea, because it is so Large , 143,200 squares miles. So technically, not legally, calling it a Sea or Lake is actually correct. By the way Great video.
Thanks for watching?
Well of course with the exception of rivers. If we counted rivers then the great lakes wouldn't be lakes either as they drain into the Atlantic
Also the bed of the Caspian is oceanic crust, there is a distinct continental shelf. And considering its prior status as part of an oceanic basin, I don’t think it’s incorrect to classify as a sea either. Realistically, the natural world does not abide by hard and fast legal definitions, hence the controversy.
I've been binging on your awesome videos for the last few days (as I'm guessing a lot of us have - thanks TH-cam algorithm!), and I really appreciate how thoroughly you research and explain such a wide range of topics. But this one seems a bit oversimplified, and I want to offer a counter-argument.
While geography generally considers lakes to be enclosed bodies of water, that's not a sufficient definition to distinguish between a saline lake and an inland sea. If we're basing our definitions on arbitrary linguistic conventions, then sure, you can make a semantic argument either way, but there is a natural and somewhat meaningful distinction between an inland sea and a salt lake in their respective geological processes of formation.
The Dead Sea in the Levant and the Salton Sea in California are two examples of misnamed saline lakes because they are the results of rifts in continental crust. The Caspian, like these two, is an endorheic basin - they all lack outflow, so they retain their salinity despite being fed by freshwater sources. But the Caspian is fundamentally different from the other two, because it was formed by an area of oceanic crust becoming encircled by continental crust. Its size and salinity don't make it a sea, but its geological composition does.
A lake is landlocked because it formed (through erosion, glacial activity, tectonic rift, or whatever) on the surface of a continental plate. The Caspian Sea is landlocked because part of the ocean was isolated and surrounded by landmasses. They're two distinct phenomena, so they should be categorized to reflect that, rather than based on a list of characteristics that feel applicable.
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Fun fact: If all ice on earth melts, the Caspian Sea actually becomes a sea
And Denmark is no more.
And the US State of Florida ceased to existence
Lol, I'm just waiting for flat earthers to try and debunk this, and come up with the idea that the government is lying, and that the Caspian sea truly is bigger.
And that Malaysia doesn't exist, or Greenland. Because conspiracy :P
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At one time, the Caspian Sea held not only sturgeon & lake trout, but flatheads too.
Atlas pro: "It's not a lake... It's an Ocean!"
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You made a mistake. Lakes are fully divided, and for seas they applay the UN low. Like for Black sea, only 20km from the coastline is of the country, the rest is international water.
Depends. lake Constance has 3 countries on it's coast with 3 different opinions on how to divide the lake.
Since you mention them so much, would love to see you do a video about like different ethnic groups and their histories, name origins, etc? Think it'd be cool!
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Thanks! I think they keep getting better :)
Atlas Pro They do :) Noticed you got a better mic too. Keep the quality going
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Nice video and thanks for using the metric system.
Thank you for a great video and research. You are right that, the Caspian sea’s status is in the air. It is also very disastreaous for the sea’s ( or lake’s) ecology.
Your videos are so informative
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well since the publishing of this vlog.....the 5 nations that border the Caspian have signed an agreement to share the waters to the exclusion of the international community.......what we call it is no longer germane....what they call it is......i suggest " the Kaspian Waters " and since it is landlocked it is not the concern of the west ....it is for them to make the arrangement
This isn't a vlog bruv
Sounds like an opportunity for Russia to dominate, will be interesting to watch
The way that I've always understood the difference between a "lake" and "sea", is that water generally flows out of a "lake" and water only flows into a "sea". And by that definition, the Great Salt Lake, in Utah, is really an inland sea. Technically, I believe the Caspian Sea should be categorized as a sea because water only flows into it, not out it.
It'll always be a sea to me!
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Territorial river, since the MUSLIMS are highly territorial, LOL!
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@@Moses_VII prejudice and hate has brought religion into the video
I mean due to its size, we might as well call it a sea
Agree. This "lake" is large in size that the sea of Azov, the sea of Marmara and the Adriatic sea combined.
I've always thought it was a sea. Thanks!!!
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Said Zzed you can find a lake in mongolia and call it baku sea
Damn the name has already been taken
5:46 ummmm what!? It’s not an ocean nor does anyone call it that.
A sea is an ocean
A sea is a smaller ocean there are only 3 oceans in the world they are the 3 biggest bodies of water every other bit of water that isn’t landlocked is a sea
@@lilchad-ig1oj
There's not 3 oceans, there's 5.
1. Atlantic
2. Pacific
3. Indian
4. Arctic
5. Antarctic/Southern
@@carcinogen60yearsago
Like the Mediterranean Ocean, or the Atlantic Sea?
@@80ki68 those are just arbitrary, in reality, there's just one world ocean.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Ocean
I think the debate should be around how to protect the resources and not exploit and destroy them, whether it is a lake or a sea.
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Compromise: it’s the Caspian Sea-Lake.
There! Everyone’s unhappy now.
Lake-sea sounds better, but yes! :D
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3:17 it's a lake
3:20 it's a sea
Thanks for keeping up the suspense til the very end.
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My name is Caspian!!!!!!!!
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Caspian
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All are names of Iranian regions, cities and nomads