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Illustrate the origin and nature of Sargasso Sea and Lagoon.

  • UPSC 2014
  • Oceanography

The Sargasso Sea is a calm, warm, very saline body of open water at the centre of the North Atlantic subtropical gyre — often called “the sea without a shore”, because currents, not coasts, mark its edges.

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