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Names of seas?
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How did the yellow sea, the white sea and the black sea get their names?
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The Yellow Sea certainly got its name from the vast quantities of yellow-coloured silt deposited in it by the Huang Ho River.
I'm not certain about the others, but the original Classical Greek name for the Black Sea was the 'Inhospitable Sea'. Could the 'black' idea have come from that 'dark/threatening' suggestion? The White Sea is so-called, I suspect, because it is frequently ice-bound!
There are several myths to why the seas have their name which have all recently been prooven to be incorrect. In 1942, an archaeologist who's name i forget now, came across a missing page for the original bible. In it, it states that as God was creating the Earth in 7 days, he had little time, and because of this, he had to use a 'pait-by-numbers' set. So he subsequently gave all the seas names of colours to remembers where all the colours had to go. There you have it.
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