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Mostafa Salah
Former Director, Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries, Kayed Bey, Alexandria, Egypt. Author of numerous articles on oceanography.
Mostafa Salah,
Baruch Boxer
Emeritus Professor of Geography and Environmental Sciences, Cook College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. Author of "China's Environmental Prospects" in Asian Survey and other articles.
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Mediterranean Sea, an intercontinental sea that stretches from the Atlantic Ocean on the west to Asia on the east and separates Europe from Africa. It has often been called the incubator of Western civilization. This ancient “sea between the lands” occupies a deep, elongated, and almost landlocked irregular depression lying between latitudes 30° and 46° N and longitudes 5°50′ W and 36° E. Its west-east extent—from the Strait of Gibraltar between Spain and Morocco to the shores of the Gulf of Iskenderun on the southwestern coast of Turkey—is approximately 2,500 miles (4,000 km), and its average north-south extent, between Croatia’s ...(100 of 4421 words)

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