Maritime
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Maritime is primarily an adjective that describes objects or activities related to the sea
Sea
A sea generally refers to a large body of salt water, but the term is used in other contexts as well. Most commonly, it means a large expanse of saline water connected with an ocean, and is commonly used as a synonym for ocean...

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Maritime or Maritimes as a noun may also refer to:

Geography

  • The Maritimes
    Maritimes
    The Maritime provinces, also called the Maritimes or the Canadian Maritimes, is a region of Eastern Canada consisting of three provinces, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island. On the Atlantic coast, the Maritimes are a subregion of Atlantic Canada, which also includes the...

    , the Canadian provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island
  • Primorsky Krai
    Primorsky Krai
    Primorsky Krai , informally known as Primorye , is a federal subject of Russia . Primorsky means "maritime" in Russian, hence the region is sometimes referred to as Maritime Province or Maritime Territory. Its administrative center is in the city of Vladivostok...

     (Maritime Province), Russia

Music

  • "Maritime", a song from Oceanic (Isis album)
  • Maritime (album)
    Maritime (album)
    -Track listing:#"Muesli" – 3:06#" Dry Dock Now" – 3:56#"Vigo Bay" – 4:22#"Six Foolish Fishermen" – 3:54#"Hilly" – 6:33#"Twosley" – 4:05#"Somebody Once Told Me It Existed But They Never Found It" – 6:00#"Luck Shield" – 5:42#"Mistaken Tourist" – 5:17...

    , by Minotaur Shock
  • Maritime (band)
    Maritime (band)
    Maritime formed in 2003 out of the ashes of The Promise Ring and The Dismemberment Plan. After these two bands broke up, singer/guitarist Davey von Bohlen, drummer Dan Didier and bassist Eric Axelson hooked up and started a band called In English. The group quickly signed a deal with the record...

    , an indie pop group

See also

  • European Atlas of the Seas
    European Atlas of the Seas
    The European Atlas of the Seas is an interactive electronic atlas on the coasts and seas within and around Europe. The atlas is freely accessible on the internet and is available in English, French and German...

  • International Maritime Organization
    International Maritime Organization
    The International Maritime Organization , formerly known as the Inter-Governmental Maritime Consultative Organization , was established in Geneva in 1948, and came into force ten years later, meeting for the first time in 1959...

  • Maritime history
    Maritime history
    Maritime history is the study of human activity at sea. It covers a broad thematic element of history that often uses a global approach, although national and regional histories remain predominant...

  • List of maritime colleges
  • List of maritime museums in the United States
  • Al-Hashemi-II Marine Museum
    Al-Hashemi-II
    The ship Al-Hashemi-II is a very large dhow that sits next to the Radisson SAS Hotel in Kuwait City, Kuwait. The Al-Hashemi-II is advertised as the "World's Largest Wooden Ship". The Al-Hashemi-II has a length of 83.7 meters . Its bow is 18.5 meters wide. The Al-Hashemi-II sits on 6,000 square...

     in Kuwait
    Kuwait
    The State of Kuwait is a sovereign Arab state situated in the north-east of the Arabian Peninsula in Western Asia. It is bordered by Saudi Arabia to the south at Khafji, and Iraq to the north at Basra. It lies on the north-western shore of the Persian Gulf. The name Kuwait is derived from the...

    , formerly called the Maritime Museum

Related terms

  • Fluvial
    Fluvial
    Fluvial is used in geography and Earth science to refer to the processes associated with rivers and streams and the deposits and landforms created by them...

     - of or relating to a river
    River
    A river is a natural watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, a lake, a sea, or another river. In a few cases, a river simply flows into the ground or dries up completely before reaching another body of water. Small rivers may also be called by several other names, including...

  • Lacustrine (disambiguation) - of or relating to a lake
    Lake
    A lake is a body of relatively still fresh or salt water of considerable size, localized in a basin, that is surrounded by land. Lakes are inland and not part of the ocean and therefore are distinct from lagoons, and are larger and deeper than ponds. Lakes can be contrasted with rivers or streams,...

  • Oceanic (disambiguation) - of or relating to an ocean
    Ocean
    An ocean is a major body of saline water, and a principal component of the hydrosphere. Approximately 71% of the Earth's surface is covered by ocean, a continuous body of water that is customarily divided into several principal oceans and smaller seas.More than half of this area is over 3,000...

  • Palustrine
    Palustrine
    Palustrine comes from the Latin word palus or marsh. Wetlands within this category include inland marshes and swamps as well as bogs, fens, tundra and floodplains...

     - of or relating to a marsh
    Marsh
    In geography, a marsh, or morass, is a type of wetland that is subject to frequent or continuous flood. Typically the water is shallow and features grasses, rushes, reeds, typhas, sedges, other herbaceous plants, and moss....

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