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Northern Red Sea
November 6th, 2009 by Travel
The Red Sea is located between Egypt, Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia on the west separating them from Saudi Arabia and Yemen on the east and is located in a rift valley. It is the world’s most northerly tropical sea which hosts over a thousand species of invertebrates and two hundred species of corals, being twenty five hundred meters deep and an average length of 300 kilometer wide.
Its length is nearly two thousand kilometers at nineteen hundred and is one of the saltiest bodies of water in the world. It is under threat from desalinization plants that pour their chemicals directly back into it, oil refineries that dump waste cooling water back into it, and the overall rise of sea levels with global warming which cause current issues. The sea is also a popular tourist location for many shipwrecks and reefs that are just below the surface.
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