Caspian Sea of around 149,200 square miles (386,400 square km)— bigger than the region of Japan—and its surface lies somewhere in the range of 90 feet (27 meters) below sea level. The sea bed in the southern part reaches as low as 1,023 m (3,356 ft) below sea level, which is the second lowest natural depression on earth after Lake Baikal (−1,180 m, −3,871 ft). The ancient inhabitants of its coast perceived the Caspian Sea as an ocean, probably because of its saltiness and large size. The sea has a surface area of 371,000 km (143,200 sq mi) (not including the detached
Sea level rise A rapid collapse of West Antarctic Ice Sheet could raise sea level by at an unknown rate. The Thwaites and Pine Island glaciers have been identified to be potentially prone to these processes, since both glaciers bedrock topography gets deeper farther inland, exposing them to more warm water intrusion at the grounding line, and with the continued melt, retreat, eventually raising global sea levels. Most ice on Greenland is part of the Greenland ice sheet which rises to an average of . The rest of the ice on Greenland is part of isolated glaciers and ice caps. The sources contributing