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{{Box-header colour|{{resize|139%|The Oceans Portal}}
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|File:Panorama of Gibson's Steps along the Great Ocean Road - panoramio.jpg|A view of the Southern Ocean from Great Ocean Road, Port Campbell, Princetown, Victoria, Australia

|File:Zanzibar banner.jpg|A panorama of Zanzibar, Tanzania, particularly the Stone Town, taken from the Indian Ocean

|File:DIMG 1149 (4997125166).jpg|A view of Filfla and the Mediterranean Sea. Filfla is a small, mostly barren, uninhabited islet {{convert|4.5|km|mi|abbr=off}} south of Malta.

|File:Sea anemone baja california.jpg|A sea anemone in the Pacific Ocean, Baja California, Mexico

|File:Wikivoyage Banner of South China Sea.jpeg|A view of the South China Sea, Bacuit Archipelago, municipality of El Nido, Palawan, Philippines

|File:Mirtos Beach Panorama (222048177).jpeg|A view of Myrtos Beach and the Ionian Sea, Cephalonia, Ionian Islands, Greece

|File:Killer Whale Tipe B.jpg|Orca (Orcinus orca) hunting a Weddell seal in the Southern Ocean

|File:Mother and baby sperm whale.jpg|A mother sperm whale and her calf in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Mauritius

|File:Caesio teres in Fiji by Nick Hobgood.jpg|Caesio teres in the South Pacific Ocean in Fiji

|File:2010 mavericks competition edit1.jpg|A surfer in the Pacific Ocean at the 2010 Mavericks competition, village of Princeton-by-the-Sea, northern California

|File:Glaciers and Icebergs at Cape York.jpg|Icebergs broken off from glaciers in northern Baffin Bay, Cape York, Greenland

|File:Hawaje-NoRedLine.jpg|Satellite view of the Pacific Ocean and the main windward Hawaiian Islands

|File:Southern Ocean-2.JPG|Clouds over the Southern Ocean, with continent labels

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|1=Sea

|2=Resolution Guyot

|3=2002 Pacific typhoon season

|4=Gulf Stream

|5=Sea surface temperature

|6=List of Category 5 Pacific hurricanes

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|8=Ocean acidification

|9=Norwegian Sea

|10=Barents Sea

|11=Seawater

|12=Ocean deoxygenation

|13=Effects of climate change on oceans

|14=South China Sea

|15=Tide

|16=Sea level rise

|17=Wind wave

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|20=Sea level

|21=Marine habitats

|22=Mid-ocean ridge

|23=Intertidal ecology

|24=Marine life

|25=Ancient maritime history

|26=Estuary

|27=Marine microorganisms

|28=Piracy

|29=Marine viruses

|30=Marine prokaryotes

|31=Seafood

|32=Marine invertebrates

|33=Adriatic Sea

|34=Sea of Japan naming dispute

|35=Marine fungi

|36=Abyssal plain

|37=Weather ship

|38=History of navigation

|39=Estuaries of Texas

|40=Ocean liner

|41=Gulf of Finland

|42=Philippine Sea

|43=Cruise ship

|44=Marine biology

|45=Labrador Sea

|46=Marine debris

|47=Coral reef

|48=Rogue wave

|49=Marine pollution

|50=Environmental issues with coral reefs

|51=Cobb Seamount

|52=Mediterranean Sea

|53=Marine protected area

|54=Blue carbon

|55=Deep-water coral

|56=Somali Current

|57=Principality of Sealand

|58=Cold seep

|59=Aegean Sea

|60=List of largest cruise ships

|61=Iceberg

|62=Sea ice

|63=Tidal power

|64=Marine mammal

|65=Marine art

|66=Challenger Deep

|67=Panthalassa

|68=Ring of Fire

|69=Seamount

|70=Great Pacific garbage patch

|71=Northwest Passage

|72=Titanic

|73=Sea anemone

|74=Larsen Ice Shelf

|75=Whaling in Japan

|76=Ecosystem of the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre

|77=Swell (ocean)

|78=Marine food web

|79=Deep-sea exploration

|80=Offshore drilling

|81=Antarctic Circumpolar Current

|82=Bermuda Triangle

|83=Agulhas Current

|84=Caribbean Sea

|85=Ship

|86=Deep sea fish

|87=Deep sea

|88=Thermohaline circulation

|89=Whale

|90=Age of Discovery

|91=Clipper route

|92=Marine snow

|93=Hydrothermal vent

|94=Allison Guyot

|95=Paleo-Tethys Ocean

|96=Central American Seaway

|97=Sargasso Sea

|98=Ekman transport

|99=Argo (oceanography)

|100=Ocean acoustic tomography

|101=Moby-Dick

|102=Baltic Sea

|103=Bay of Bengal

|104=Yellow Sea

|105=Ross Sea

|106=Hudson Bay

|107=Strait of Hormuz

|108=Red Sea

|109=Persian Gulf

|110=Vikings

|111=Ming treasure voyages

|112=Portuguese discoveries

|113=Cetacean surfacing behaviour

|114=Gulf of Aden

|115=Gulf of Mexico

|116=Oceanic carbon cycle

|117=Law of the sea

|118=Hanseatic League

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[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Oceans/to_do&action=edit&preload=Template:Tasks/Preload edit tasks]

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|Atlantic Ocean

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|Southern Ocean

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Oceans

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Oceans

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Do you have a question about oceans, seas or oceanography that you can't find the answer to? Consider asking it at the Wikipedia reference desk.

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  • [https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/OC5/indprod.html World Ocean Database and World Ocean Atlas Series] – from the U.S. National Centers for Environmental Information, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Includes the World Ocean Atlas.
  • [https://ec.europa.eu/maritimeaffairs/atlas/maritime_atlas/#lang=EN;p=w;bkgd=5;theme=2:0.75;c=1224514.3987259883,6446275.841017013;z=4 European Atlas of the Seas] – the European Atlas of the Seas, from the European Commission
  • [https://research.noaa.gov/ NOAA Research] – NOAA research news, Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR)
  • [http://www.worldoceanobservatory.org/content/ocean-research Ocean Research] – from The World Ocean Observatory
  • [https://obis.or Ocean Biodiversity Information System] – "a global open-access data and information clearing-house on marine biodiversity for science, conservation and sustainable development"

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