Index

Aa, Pieter van der, 185

Aboriginal Australians, 66-67, 68,

127, 301

Abu Mufarrij, 168

Adam of Bremen, 211-12

Adelman, Jeremy, 145, 146

Aden, 54, 55, 168, 171

Gulf of, 171

Adigal, Ilango, 36

African American Monument, South Carolina, US, 10

Agatharchides of Cnidus, 167 Agnew, John, 273

agricultural exchanges, Indian

Ocean, 49-50

Albert, Duke of Saxony, 212

Albrecht of Bavaria, 212

Alencastro, Luiz Felipe de, 91 Alexander III, tsar of Russia, 256 Alexander the Great, 163, 243 Al-Masudi, 168

amber, 217

Amino Yoshihiko, 187, 192

Andaman Islands, 57-59

Andaya, Barbara Watson, 49

Antarctic Circumpolar Current, 296 Antarctic Treaty, 310, 311-12 Antarctica

see Southern Ocean

anthropology

of Oceania, 63-66

racial theories, 81

apprenticeship, 45

Arctic Council, 280, 291-92

Arctic Ocean, 8, 89, 105, 269-92

as bellwether ocean, 287-91

claims on, 272, 273, 284-85 climate change, 277, 287-92 crossings of, 276-77 geography, 275-77

prehistoric coastal settlements, 281-82 resource extraction, 277, 284-85 scientific research, 286-90 sea ice, 286-92 thermohaline circulation, 276 whaling, 284-85, 299, 302

Arktika, 277

Armitage, David, 171 artillery, 248

Ascension Island, 100

Ascherson, Neal, 241

Atlantic age, 22

Atlantic Charter, 93

Atlantic islands, 99-100

Atlantic Ocean, 85-108, 138 circum-Atlantic history, 96-97 cis-Atlantic history, 96-97 extra-Atlantic history, 97, 105-8 infra-Atlantic history, 97, 98-102, 108 migration, 93, 95, 103-4, 107 slave trade, 90-92, 93-94, 95, 104, 106 sub-Atlantic history, 97, 102-5, 108 sub-oceanic regions, 89-91 trade, 106-7 trans-Atlantic history, 96-97

Atlantis, 99

Aurobindo, Sri, 37

Azad, Abul Kalam, 57

Baekje Kingdom, Korea, 187, 188 Bailyn, Bernard, 2, 16-17, 88-89, 96 Bajau people, South China Sea, 124-27 Balhae Kingdom, Korea, 186-87, 188 Baltic Energy Market Interconnection Plan (BEMIP), 232

Baltic Sea, 89, 209-32 artisans and artists, 222-24 crossroads to other seas and

oceans, 230-31

Dutch and, 213, 218-24, 225, 228, 230 English and, 225-27, 228, 229 Hanseatic League, 215-19 medieval and modern notions of, 209-15 migration, 222 model region, 231-32 trade, 212-13, 215-22, 224-31

Baltic Sea Strategy, 231-32

Balzac, Honore de, 252

Bangudae, South Korea, 193

Banivanua Mar, Tracey, 75

Barents Sea, 274, 276, 286, 289

Barents, Willem, 276, 283, 284

Basil II, Byzantine Emperor, 245

Beaglehole, John, 62-63

Bengal, Bay of, 41

Ben-Yehoyada, Naor, 148-49, 152

Biological Investigations of Marine Antarctic

Systems and Stocks (BIOMASS), 311 bio-prospecting, 80-81

Bin Abdul Kadir, Abdullah, 51-52

Black Death, 247

Black Sea, 89, 234-64

ancient history, 241-44

geography, 236-41

Middle Ages, 244-47

openness and enclosure, 240-41

Ottoman Empire and, 247-50, 252, 253-54, 256, 257

Russia and, 250-53, 254-56, 257, 259-60, 261-62

trade, 239, 249, 253, 255-56

Turkey and, 239, 257, 258-59, 260, 261, 262

Blocke, Abraham van der, 223

Blocke, Willem van der, 223

‘Blue Revolution’, 15

Bolster, Jeffrey, 103

Bonaparte, Napoleon, 170

Book of Curiosities of the Sciences and

Marvels for the Eyes, The, 34-35

Bose, Subhas Chandra, 58

Bose, Sugata, 33, 98

botanical knowledge, 49-51, 80-81

Bougainville, Louis-Antoine de, 298

Bratianu, George I., 254

Braudel, Fernand, 2, 16-17, 38, 94, 136, 137, 158, 236-37

Browne, Samuel, 51

Brunei, 119

bubonic plague, 247

Buck, Sir Peter (Te Rangi Hiroa), 63, 67, 81

Burnett, Graham, 306, 307, 308

Byrd, Richard F., 277

Byzantine Empire, 244-46, 248, 250

Byzantium, 242

see also Constantinople

Cabot, John, 283

Cairo Geniza letters, 166, 168 canoes, double-hulled, Pacific, 12

see also Polynesian canoe journeys

Cape Colony, 43

Cape of Good Hope, 107

Caribbean Sea

hurricanes, 105 islands, 100

Carta Marina map, 283 cartography, 21

Arctic Ocean, 279, 282, 283, 284

Atlantic Ocean, 89-90

Red Sea, 169

Sea of Japan/East Sea, 184, 185, 190 castaways, Japanese fishermen, 195 Catherine the Great, Empress of

Russia, 250

Challenger expedition, 104

Charles W.

Chau Ju Kua, 117, 121

Chaudhuri, Kirti, 22, 37, 38, 39-40

Chaunu, Huguette, 94

Chaunu, Pierre, 94

Chekhov, Anton, 199-200

China

see South China Sea

Christian IV, King of Denmark, 223

Christianity, 53-54, 79-80 circum-Atlantic history, 96-97 cis-Atlantic history, 96-97 climate change, 16, 105, 277, 287-92 coasts and beaches, Atlantic, 100-1 coerced labour

Indian Ocean, 44-45

Pacific Ocean, 77-78

‘Coffin Ship’ monument, Ireland, 10

Cold War

Arctic Ocean, 269-70, 276

Black Sea, 240, 258-59

Pacific Ocean, 83

Sea of Japan/East Sea, 191, 203-6 Collingwood, R.

see also tragedy of the commons Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), 261

Congress ofVienna, 252

Coning, Jacob, 223

Conrad, C. M., 197 conservation, Southern Ocean, 304-5,

307-8, 309-14

Constantinople (Istanbul), 239, 244, 245, 246, 248, 250

contracted labour

Indian Ocean, 44-45

Pacific Ocean, 77-79

Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR), 309, 311-12, 314

convict transportation, Indian Ocean, 44-45, 58

Cook, Frederick, 277

Cook, James, 69-70, 74, 298

Cooper, Mercator, 194-95

Copenhagen, 223-24 cosmopolitanism, 54-59, 74

Mediterranean Sea, 149-52

Cossacks, 249

Council of the Baltic Sea States

(CBSS), 214-15

Crimea, 238-39, 244, 247, 248, 250, 253, 257, 258, 259, 261-62

Crimean War, 254-55

Crosby, Alfred, 76

Crusades, 139, 246

Curtin, Philip, 95

da Gama, Vasco, 39, 47, 48

d’Anville, Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon, 169 Danzig, 222, 224, 228

Das Gupta, Ashin, 38-39, 40

Davidson, Jim, 74

de Castro, Joao, 169

de Vries, Jan Vredeman, 222, 223, 224

de Vries, Klaas, 222 decolonisation

Atlantic Ocean, 93-94

Pacific Ocean, 74-75

deep-sea research, Atlantic Ocean, 104 Dening, Greg, 66, 98 deportations, Black Sea, 255, 256, 258 dhow, 49

Diderot, Denis, 249

Dircksen, Jan, 223

Discovery investigations, 305-6 diving, 104

Dorsey, Kurk, 307, 308

d’Orta, Garcia, 50

Douglas, Bronwen, 81

Douglass, Frederick, 91

Downing, George, 219-20

Drake, Francis, 8

Du Bois, W. E. B., 91, 95

Earth Summit, 1, 3

East India Company (Dutch), 43

East India Company (English), 38, 44, 50-51, 107, 123

East Korea Warm Current, 191

East Sea/Sea of Japan, 12, 182-207

abductions, 196, 203-4

migration, 12, 186-87, 201-4 naming debates, 182-86, 207

oceanic currents, 189-91, 193 refugees, 12, 202, 204

repatriations, 201-2, 203, 204 trade, 192-93

tragedy, 199-206

whaling, 193-95, 197-98

Easter Island (Rapa Nui), 67, 77-78

Eastern Roman Empire, 244-46, 248, 250 ecological histories

see environmental and ecological histories

ecological products, South China Sea,

117, 124-27

Economic Research Institute for Northeast Asia (ERINA), 206-7

El Nino/Southern Oscillation, 72, 105

Ellemann-Jensen, Uffe, 214-15 endorheic basins, 237

Engholm, Bjorn, 214

England

see Great Britain

Enlightenment

Baltic Sea, 213

Mediterranean Sea, 148

Pacific Ocean, 80-81

Red Sea, 169

environmental and ecological

histories, 13-16

Arctic Ocean, 284-92

Atlantic Ocean, 103-5

Indian Ocean, 46-51

Mediterranean Sea, 136-38 oceanic turn in, 15-16

Pacific Ocean, 71-72, 76-77, 80-81

Sea of Japan/East Sea, 189-99

South China Sea, 124-27 see also Southern Ocean.

environmental protection, Southern

Ocean, 304-5, 307-8, 309-14

Ephraimson-Abt, Hans, 205

ethnic cleansing, 203, 256

European Council, 231-32

European Union, 209, 214, 215, 260, 261, 262

extra-Atlantic history, 97, 105-8

Falkland Islands, 100

famines, 257

Febvre, Lucien, 162

Findlay, Alexander George, 189-90

Findlay, Arthur, 190-91

Finland, 215, 230-31

Finley, Moses, 137

First World War, 256-57

fisheries, 13-14

Atlantic Ocean, 103

Baltic Sea, 217-18, 219-20

Southern Ocean, 309-12

fluid ontology, 18

Flynn, Dennis O., 82 fly-ship (fluyt), 221

Food and Agriculture Organization, 312 forced labour

see slavery and slave trade

Fram, 276-77

Franklin, Benjamin, 90

Freeman, Donald, 68

Friedman, Thomas, 146

Frobisher, Martin, 283

Frost, Lionel, 82

Furayama Tadao, 189

Galle inscription, 35-36

Gandhi, Mahatma, 56-57

Geneva Convention for the Regulation of

Whaling, 305

Genoa, 246-47

Genscher, Hans-Dietrich, 214-15

Ghafur, Mulla Abdul, 39

‘ghost ships’, 12, 204

Gietermaker, Claes Hendrickszoon, 222

Gilroy, Paul, 91

Giovanni de Pian del Carpini, 183-84

Glissant, Edouard, 102

Godechot, Jacques, 94

Gomes, Estevao, 283

grain trade

Baltic Sea, 217, 219, 220-21, 228

Red Sea, 176

Grand Bassin crater lake, Mauritius, 59

Great Britain

and Baltic Sea, 225-27, 228, 229

and Southern Ocean, 303-6

Great Ocean Conveyor Belt, 105

Great Pacific Garbage Patch, 191

‘Great Patriation of the Fatherland’, 203

Greeks, ancient, 241-43

Green, Nile, 53

Greenpeace, 83, 311, 313

Grove, Richard, 50

guano mining industry, 76, 77-78

Gulf of Aden, 171

Gulf Stream, 90, 276

Guo, Li, 165, 168

Haddon, Alfred Cort, 63 hajj, 51, 52-53, 166

Hannibal, 197-98

Hanotaux, Gabriel, 162-63

Hans Sloane Herbarium, 51

Hanseatic League, 215-19

Hardin, Garrett, 307-8

Harries, Patrick, 43

Harrisson, Tom, 118

Harvey, David, 194

Haushofer, Karl, 92

Hawai’i, 71, 74

Heezen, Bruce, 104

Henry the Navigator, 9-10

Herbert, Wally, 277

Herodotus, 243, 282

Herzfeld, Michael, 145-46

Hess, Andrew, 140-41, 147-48

Hirayama Ikuo, 206

historical periodisation, 22-24

Holy League, 250

Homer, 241-42

Hondius, Willem, 222

Horden, Peregrine, 98, 136-37,

146, 237

Hortus Malabaricus, 50

Howkins, Adrian, 306

Hsian, Fei, 120

Huber, Valeska, 166

Hudson, Henry, 284

Hult, Pieter van den, 223 hydrogenation of oils, 303

Hyphegesis Geographike, 34

Ibn al-Mujawir, 168

Ibn Battuta, 168

Ibn Jubayr, 168

Ibn Majid, Ahmad, 47-48, 49, 168

I-ching, 116

Igler, David, 70-71

imperialism

Indian Ocean, 38-41, 43, 48

Mediterranean Sea, 138-39,

141-45, 150-51

Pacific Ocean, 73-74

Red Sea, 168-69, 170

Sea of Japan/East Sea, 186, 201-2 see also Black Sea

indentured labour

Indian Ocean, 44-45

Pacific Ocean, 77-79

India, 48, 50

Indian Ocean, 31-60, 89, 98, 105 knowledges and environments, 46-54 labour, 41-46

modern formations, 54-59 narrators of, 33-38

Red Sea and, 156-58, 164, 171 trade, 22, 38-42, 46, 107

Indigenous peoples, 9, 11, 24

Aboriginal Australians, 66-67, 68, 127, 301

Arctic Ocean, 273-74, 275-76, 281-82

Atlantic Ocean, 93, 99-100 navigational knowledge, 72

Pacific Ocean, 72, 74-75, 81-82

Sea of Japan/East Sea, 186, 193

South China Sea, 124-27

Southern Ocean, 301

whaling, 14, 193, 301

Indonesia, 49 infra-Atlantic history, 97, 98-102, 108 institution building, international, 93 Intergovernmental Oceanic Commission, 1 International Committee of the Red

Cross, 203

International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling (ICRW), 307, 313

International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), 305

International Court of Justice, 313-14 International Geophysical Year, 310 International Hydrographic Organisation, 182, 184-85, 270

International Whaling Commission (IWC), 14, 306, 307-8, 309, 312, 313

Inuit, 273-74, 276, 282

Inuit Circumpolar Council, 291

Ireland, Alexander, 70

iron, 229

Islam

Indian Ocean, 40, 52-53

Pacific Ocean, 79

Red Sea, 166, 168

see also Muslim communities

Istanbul, 239, 260

see also Constantinople

James, C.

Japan, 82-83

see also Sea of Japan/East Sea

Japan Current, 189-91

Japan Whaling Association, 193 Jenkins, Charles Robert, 203

Jewish communities

Black Sea, 256, 258

Mediterranean Sea, 150, 151

Red Sea, 166, 168

Johnsen, A. O., 302

Johnson, Charles, 144

Joint-Daguenet, Roger, 163

Jones, Ryan Tucker, 70

Journal of Pacific History, 68

Juntoku, Emperor of Japan, 200

Kafadar, Cemal, 141

Kaffa, 246, 247, 248

kamal, 47, 48

Kammerer, Albert, 161-62, 169

Kellogg, Remington, 307

Kessel, Joseph, 170

khashabat, 47

Khrushchev, Nikita, 259

kidnappings, Sea of Japan/East Sea, 196, 203-4

Knipowitsch, Nikolai, 289

Korea

see East Sea/Sea of Japan

Korean Airlines Flight 007, 204-6

Korean War, 12, 202

Kotzebue, Otto von, 230

krill, Antarctic, 305, 309, 311, 312, 315

Krusenstern, Adam Johann von, 230

Kuroshio Current, 189-91

Kuykendall, Ralph S., 62

La Perouse Map, 185

La Perouse, Jean-Francois de Galaup, comte de, 73, 185, 190

labour

Atlantic Ocean, 107

Indian Ocean, 41-46

Pacific Ocean, 77-79

see also slavery and slave trade

labour camps, 201-2

‘Lapita’ culture, 67

Larsen, Carl Anton, 303

LaRue, Leonard, 202

lascars, 45-46

Latham, A. J. H., 82

law of the sea, 273, 310-11

League of Nations, 305

Lemuria, 36, 99

‘Levantini’, 150-51

Linnaeus, Carl, 282

Lippmann, Walter, 92-93

Livorno, 151

London Missionary Society, 80

Londres, Albert, 170

MacDonald, Ranald, 196

Mackintosh, Neil, 306

Maddison, Ben, 301

Magalhaes Godinho, Vitorino, 94

Magnus, Olaus, 212, 283

Malmstrom, Cecilia, 231

Mamiya Rinzo, 190

Mangyongbong ferry, 202-3, 204

Manila galleons, 69, 106-7

Maori, 67

mapping

see cartography

Margariti, Roxani Eleni, 165, 168 marine goods, South China Sea, 124-27 marine protected areas, 314

Maritime Heritage Gallery, National Museum of India, 48

Marseille, 152

Matthews, Derek H., 172-73

Matvejevic, Predrag, 141

Mauritius, 44, 45, 50

Grand Bassin crater lake, 59

Mauro, Frederic, 94

Maury, Matthew Fontaine, 90

Mawson, Douglas, 306

McKenzie, Alexander, 283

McPherson, Kenneth, 37, 47

Mediterranean Sea, 89, 98, 105, 134-53, 234, 236-37

Christian-Muslim division, 134-36, 138-41, 146-49

cosmopolitanism, 149-52 environmental histories, 136-38 global history and, 145-49 naming debates, 138, 139

Ottoman Empire and, 141-45, 150-51

Red Sea and, 156-58, 164 refugees and migrants, 134, 152 source of danger, 139-40 trade, 147-48, 230

Meloy, John, 165

Mercator, Gerardus, 283

Mercedarians, 147-48

Meredith Victory, 12, 202 mid-Atlantic ridge, 104 migration

Atlantic Ocean, 93, 95, 103-4, 107

Baltic Sea, 222

Mediterranean Sea, 134, 152

Pacific Ocean, 63, 66-68, 77-79

Red Sea, 177-78

Sea of Japan/East Sea, 12, 186-87, 201-4

Millburn, William, 123

Miller, Peter, 137

Mills, J.V., 118

‘Ming Gap’ thesis, 118-19

mining, 76, 79

Miran, Jonathan, 98

Mithridates VI, king of Pontus, 243

Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, 258 Mombasa, 54, 55

Moneron Island, Russia, 190

Monfreid, Henry de, 170-71

Mongols, 246

Monneron, Paul Merault, 190

monsoon systems

Indian Ocean, 46-47, 48, 49-50

Red Sea, 160

South China Sea, 113, 118

Montreux Convention on the Regime of the Straits, 257, 260

Moon, Alexander, 50

Moresby, Robert, 170

Morgan, Nathaniel Saxton, 197-98 mother-of-pearl, 125, 175-76 mufti, 143-44

Munmu, Silla King, 188

Murai Shosuke, 188

Muslim communities

Black Sea, 255, 256

Indian Ocean, 41

Mediterranean Sea, 134-36,

138-41, 146-49

South China Sea, 117

see also Islam; Ottoman Empire mutinies, lascar, 46

naming debates, 6-7

Mediterranean Sea, 138, 139

Red Sea, 161

Sea of Japan/East Sea, 182-86, 207

Southern Ocean, 296-98

Nansen, Fridtjof, 276-77, 279

Nanyang (South China Sea), 115, 117, 120, 130

National Famine Monument, Ireland, 10

National Museum of India, 48

NATO, 93, 258, 260, 261

Nautilus, 277

navigational knowledge

Atlantic Ocean, 89-90

Baltic Sea, 222

Indian Ocean, 47-48

Pacific Ocean, 72

Red Sea, 160-61, 171-72

Sea of Japan/East Sea, 184

South China Sea, 117-18

Nesselmann, Georg Heinrich

Ferdinand, 213

Netherlands, and Baltic Sea, 213, 218-24, 225, 228, 230

‘New Hansa’ debate, 214

‘new thalassology’, 2, 164

New Zealand, 67, 68, 83

nitrate pollution, 232

Nordenskiold, Adolf Erik, 279

Norse colonisation of Arctic, 276, 282

North Korea, 12, 191-92, 202-4

North Pacific Gyre, 191

Northwest Passage, 105, 106, 283, 287 nuclear facilities, 191-92

nuclear testing, 83

nuclear waste, 191

nuclear weapons, 205-6

Obeyesekere, Gananath, 74 object biographies, 58-59 Obruchev, Vladimir A., 280 Ocean Island (Banaba), 79 oceanic currents

Arctic Ocean, 276-77

Atlantic Ocean, 90, 91, 276

Pacific Ocean, 72

Sea of Japan/East Sea, 189-91, 193

Southern Ocean, 296

Odessa, 251-52

Oki Islands, Japan, 198-99

Ottoman Empire

and Black Sea, 247-50, 252, 253-54, 256, 257

and Mediterranean Sea, 141-45, 150-51 and Red Sea, 168-69

Outhwaite, Leonard, 94

‘Pacific century’, 22, 82-83 Pacific Ocean, 62-83, 89, 105 chronologies, 66-68 economic histories, 75-76 environmental and ecological histories,

71-72, 76-77, 80-81

geographies, 68-72

imperial histories, 73-74

knowledges, 79-82

labour, 77-79

maritime histories, 72-73

migration, 63, 66-68, 77-79 postcolonial histories, 74-75 slavery and slave trade, 77-78 temporal dimension, 82-83 trade, 69, 75-76, 107

Pacific rim, 71

Padrao dos Descobrimentos, Portugal, 9-10 Palmer, R.

‘pan Pacific’ construction, 71, 82

Panama, isthmus of, 105

Parry, William, 286

Pasha of Algiers, 147-48 pearling industry, 125, 126, 175-76 Pearson, Michael, 37, 47

Peary, Robert, 277

penal colonies, 58, 199-200 periodisation, 22-24

Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, 33, 166, 167

Perry, Matthew, 196, 197-98

Persian Gulf, 41-42

Peter the Great, tsar of Russia, 250 Petriat, Philippe, 165 petroglyphs, 193 Philippines, 69, 106-7 phosphate mining, 76, 79 Pigafetta, Antonio, 122, 126 pilgrims, 212 piracy, 35

Black Sea, 249

Indian Ocean, 57-58 Mediterranean Sea, 143-44 Sea of Japan/East Sea, 188

Pirenne thesis, 134-36, 146-47 plane crash, Sea of Japan/East Sea, 204-6 plate tectonics, 104, 296

Plato, 99

Pliny the Elder, 167 pogroms, 256

Pollock, Sheldon, 53

pollution

Great Pacific Garbage Patch, 191 nitrates, 232 radioactive waste, 191

Polo, Marco, 48, 184

Polynesian canoe journeys, 63, 66-67, 68 Pomeranz, Kenneth, 127

Portman, Maurice Vidal, 59 postcoloniality, 19

Power, Timothy, 164, 166, 168 prisoners of war, 200-1

Ptolemaic dynasty, Egypt, 167

Ptolemy, 34, 35, 36

Purcell, Nicholas, 98, 136-37, 146, 237 Pytheas of Massalia, 99, 282

qiyas, 47

racial theories, 81-82

Radcliffe-Browne, A. R., 58-59 radioactive waste, 191

Rafael, Vicente, 80

Rainbow Wiirrior, 83 ransoming of captives, 147-48

Rapa Nui (Easter Island), 67, 77-78

Rasmussen, Knud, 279 rattan, 125

Red Sea, 89, 98, 156-79 architectural unity, 172-73 conceptualizing, 171-73 geography, 159-61 historiographic perspectives, 161-66 identity, 178-79 migration, 177-78 multi-scale framework, 173-78 naming debates, 161 temporal framework, 166-71 trade, 160-61, 166, 173-77

refugees

Black Sea, 257

Mediterranean Sea, 134, 152

Sea of Japan/East Sea, 12, 202, 204 religious knowledge

Indian Ocean, 52-54

Pacific Ocean, 79-80

relocations and resettlement

Black Sea, 255, 256, 258

Pacific Ocean, 79

Sea of Japan/East Sea, 201-2, 203, 204 Rennell, James, 90

repatriations, Sea of Japan/East Sea, 201-2, 203,204

Reseau Ocean Mondial, 1

Ricci, Matteo, 184

Ricci, Ronit, 53

Richards, John, 299

Roberts, Peder, 304, 306

Roman Empire, 243-44

see also Eastern Roman Empire

Ross, John, 286

Ross, Sir John, 286

Rothman, Natalie, 150-51

Rothschild, Emma, 96

Rowley, Graham, 290

Russell, Lynette, 301

Russia

and Arctic Ocean, 274, 278, 280, 289

and Baltic Sea, 213, 227, 229, 230

and Black Sea, 250-53, 254-56, 257, 259-60, 261-62

and Sea of Japan/East Sea, 190, 191, 199-200, 201-2

see also Soviet Union

Ruysch, Johannes, 283

RyuYeon-Taek, 185

Sado Island, Japan, 200-1, 203

Sahlins, Marshall, 74

Sakhalin Island, Russia, 199-200, 201

see also Moneron Island, Russia

Sastri, Suryanarayana, 36

Schafer, Edward, 124

Schenk, Peter, the Younger, 185

Scientific Committee on Antarctic

Research (SCAR), 311, 312 scientific research

Arctic Ocean, 286-90

Atlantic Ocean, 104

Southern Ocean, 305-6, 311

see also Enlightenment

Sclater, Philip, 36

Scoresby, William, 287

sea ice, 286-92

Sea of Azov, 238, 239, 250

Sea of Japan/East Sea, 12, 182-207

abductions, 196, 203-4

migration, 12, 186-87, 201-4

naming debates, 182-86, 207

oceanic currents, 189-91, 193 refugees, 12, 202, 204

repatriations, 201-2, 203, 204

trade, 192-93

tragedy, 199-206

whaling, 193-95, 197-98

sea peoples, South China Sea, 124-27 Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, 313 sealing, 299-301

Second World War, 82-83, 200-1, 258 Seed, Patricia, 271

Sephardi Jews, 150, 151

Sethu Pillai, R.

settler colonialism, 93

Seven Years’War, 144, 224

sexual labour, 77

Seyhulislam, 143-44

Shiba Kokan, 184

ship monuments, 9-10

‘Ship of Miracles’, 12, 202

shipping traffic, 227

ships and ship-building, 9-13

Baltic Sea, 220, 221

Indian Ocean, 48-49, 51-53

steam, 51-53, 91, 170, 253

shipyards, 12

Sidebotham, Steven, 165

Silla Dynasty, Korea, 188

‘Singing Ship’ monument, Australia, 10

Siple, Paul A., 290

slavery and slave trade

Atlantic Ocean, 90-92, 93-94, 95, 104, 106

Indian Ocean, 40, 41-45

Mediterranean Sea, 143

Pacific Ocean, 77-78

ship monuments to, 10

South China Sea, 126-27

Sloane, Hans, 104, 273-74

Smith, Bernard, 66

sonar, 104

South Atlantic Gyre, 91

South China Sea, 13, 89, 113-31

ancient and medieval histories, 115-20 early modern history, 120-23 ecological histories, 124-27 trade, 115-23, 124-30

Southern Ocean, 8, 13, 89, 105, 296-316

Antarctic Treaty, 310, 311-12 conservation, 304-5, 307-8, 309-14

naming debates, 296-98

scientific research, 305-6, 311

sealing, 299-301

whaling, 299, 301-8, 309, 311, 312-14

Soviet Union

and Arctic Ocean, 278, 289-90

and Baltic Sea, 209, 214

and Black Sea, 240, 257-59, 260

and Sea of Japan/East Sea, 201-2, 204-5

and Southern Ocean, 309-10

see also Russia

Spate, O. H. K., 66

Spitsbergen, 284-85

Sri Lanka, 35, 36, 50

Colombo, 55-56

St Helena, 100, 107

St Petersburg, 225-26, 227, 229

Stalin, Joseph, 257-58

Stalingrad, Battle of, 258

steam shipping, 51-53, 91, 170, 253 Stefansson, Vilhjalmur, 279, 282-83 Strabo, 167

Straits of Gibraltar, 105

subaltern biography, 45 sub-Atlantic history, 97, 102-5, 108

Suez Canal, 107, 163, 166, 170

Svalbard Treaty, 272 swimming, 8-9, 104

Tagliacozzo, Eric, 41, 166

Taiwan, 124

Tamil scholars, 36

Taprobane, 35, 36

tarsh al-bahr, 179

Tatars, 247, 248, 255, 258

Te Rangi Hiroa (Sir Peter Buck),

63, 67, 81

Tharp, Marie, 104

thermohaline circulation, Arctic

Ocean, 276

Thoreau, Henry David, 101 timber and forest products, Baltic Sea,

220, 221, 228, 229

Tinker, Hugh, 44

Tokugawa shogun, 195

Tonnessen, J. N., 302, 308

tourism, Southern Ocean, 314

Toussaint, Auguste, 37

trade

Arctic Ocean, 274

Atlantic Ocean, 106-7

Baltic Sea, 212-13, 215-22, 224-31

Black Sea, 239, 249, 253, 255-56

Indian Ocean, 22, 38-42, 46, 107

Mediterranean Sea, 147-48, 230

Pacific Ocean, 69, 75-76, 107

Red Sea, 160-61, 166, 173-77

Sea of Japan/East Sea, 192-93

South China Sea, 115-23, 124-30

see also slavery and slave trade

tragedy of the commons, 307-8 trans-Atlantic history, 96-97 Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, 92 transnational history-writing, 4-5

Treaty of Berlin, 256

Treaty of Lausanne, 257

Treaty of Paris (1856), 255

trepang (edible sea-cucumber), 126-27

Tristan da Cunha, 100

Trivellato, Francesca, 151

Trojan War, 241-42

Tsushima Current, 191

Tuchscherer, Michel, 163, 173

Tupaia, 69

Turkey, 239, 257, 258-59, 260, 261, 262 see also Ottoman Empire

Twain, Mark, 255

Ulleugndo Island, South Korea, 198-99

Um, Nancy, 165, 173

United Nations, 1, 16, 93, 202

United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), 273, 310-11

United Nations Economic, Social

and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), 1, 93

United States

and Arctic Ocean, 290

and Sea of Japan/East Sea, 194-99, 205-6

Valerian, Dominique, 144-45

Vallet, Eric, 165, 168

van Obberghen, Antoni, 222, 223, 224

van Rede tot Drakenstein, Hendrik, 50

van Steenwinckel, Hans, the Elder, 223

van Steenwinckel, Hans, the Younger, 223 van Steenwinckel, Lourens, 223

van Wijck, Jan, 223

Vaughan, Megan, 45

Vaugondy, Gilles Robert, 185

Venice, 143-44, 150-51, 245-46

Verne, Jules, 236

Victory, 12

Villiers, Alan, 37-38, 94

Walcott, Derek, 102

Waldseemüller, Martin, 283

Wallace line, 76

Wallerstein, Immanuel, 39

Wang Gungwu, 117

Wang Ta-yuan, 120

war crimes, 200-1

War of Polish Succession, 224

Warren, James Francis, 127

Watson, Paul, 313

waves, 16

whale oil, 302-3

whaling, 13-14, 73

Arctic Ocean, 284-85, 299, 302

Atlantic Ocean, 103

Sea of Japan/East Sea, 193-95, 197-98

Southern Ocean, 299, 301-8, 309, 311,

312-14

White, John, 67, 68

White, Joshua, 143-44

Williams, Eric, 91-92

Willoughby, Hugh, 284

Winchester, Simon, 156

wind systems

Atlantic Ocean, 91

Indian Ocean, 46-47, 48, 49-50

Red Sea, 160-61, 171-72

Sea of Japan/East Sea, 184, 192

South China Sea, 113, 118 Wladyslaw III, King of Poland, 247-48

women

sexual labour, 77

slavery, 42

World Oceans Day, 1, 3

World War I, 256-57

World War II, 82-83, 200-1, 258 Wyld, James, 185

Yokota Megumi, 203

Zanzibar, 54-55

Zeami Motokiyo, 200

Zedler, Johann Heinrich, 213

Zheng He, 35-36, 120

Zubov, Nikolai, 289