{"id":22561,"date":"2024-04-17T09:18:35","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T03:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=22561"},"modified":"2025-10-03T12:38:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T07:08:16","slug":"laccadive-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/laccadive-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Facts about Laccadive Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Laccadive Sea<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Laccadive Sea, also known as the <strong>Lakshadweep Sea<\/strong>, is a body of water <strong>bordering India<\/strong> (including its Lakshadweep islands), the <strong>Maldives<\/strong>, and <strong>Sri Lanka.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>part of the Indian Ocean<\/strong>, the world&#8217;s third-largest body of water.<\/li>\n<li>Collectively, the Lakshadweep Sea is 303,476 square miles in area.<\/li>\n<li>Boundaries:\n<ul>\n<li><strong>To its south<\/strong>, the Lakshadweep Sea <strong>touches the Nine Degree Channel<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>To its west<\/strong>, it <strong>meets the larger Indian Ocean<\/strong> that it is also a part of.<\/li>\n<li><strong>To the north<\/strong>, the Lakshadweep Sea <strong>meets the Arabian Sea<\/strong> (also part of the Indian Ocean), while to the <strong>northeast,<\/strong> it borders the <strong>Kerala state<\/strong> of India.<\/li>\n<li>Along the more southern eastern portion of the Lakshadweep Sea, it <strong>meets the Maldives islands and Sri Lanka.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>With an average depth of 6,329 feet, the Lakshadweep Sea is only <strong>half as deep as<\/strong> the average depth of the <strong>entire Indian Ocean.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>This <strong>warm sea<\/strong> has a <strong>stable water temperature<\/strong> throughout the year and is rich in marine life; the <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/gulf-of-mannar\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gulf of Mannar<\/a> alone hosts about 3,600 species.\n<ul>\n<li>Considering the coral reefsof the Lakshadweep Sea alone, there are nearly <strong>120 observed living species.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Major cities:<\/strong> Major cities along its shores include <strong>Trivandrum<\/strong> and <strong>Kochi<\/strong> in India, <strong>Quilon<\/strong> and <strong>Colombo<\/strong> in Sri Lanka, and <strong>Mal\u00e9<\/strong> in the Maldives.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Related Topics:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/gulf-of-oman-upsc\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gulf of Oman<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/persian-gulf\/\" target=\"_blank\">Persian Gulf<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/gulf-of-california\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gulf of California<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is a Gulf?<\/h3>\n<p>The Gulf is a portion of the sea that is almost surrounded by land except one narrow opening. Gulfs are formed when a giant rock collapses or when a piece of land sinks. This causes a big indentation in the area, and the water eventually fills it up. Gulfs are also formed through a natural process of erosion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/three-new-wrasse-species-spotted-using-tools-laccadive-sea\/article68071175.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Three new fish species spotted using tools in the Laccadive Sea<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Laccadive Sea, also known as the Lakshadweep Sea, is a body of water bordering India (including its Lakshadweep islands), the Maldives, and Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":22562,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22561","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}