Red Sea

Subject – IR

Context – Two Indians, a Pakistani killed in UAE tanker blasts

Concept –

Red Sea is a seawater inlet of the Indian Ocean, lying between Africa and Asia.
Its connection to the ocean is in the south, through the Bab el Mandeb strait and the Gulf of Aden.
To its north lie the Sinai Peninsula, the Gulf of Aqaba, and the Gulf of Suez (leading to the Suez Canal).
It is underlain by the Red Sea Rift, which is part of the Great Rift Valley.
It is the world’s northernmost tropical sea, and has been designated a Global 200 ecoregion.
The elongated and narrow-shaped basin extends between the Mediterranean Sea, to the north-west, and the Indian Ocean, to the south-east.
It is surrounded by desert or semi-desert areas, with no major freshwater inflow.
The Red sea acquired its present shape over the past 4 to 5 million years, by slow seafloor spreading, a fact that makes it a geologically recent opening and one of the youngest oceanic zones on Earth.