Mediterranean Sea 5.33 mya); "see" animation: Africa-Arabia colliding with Eurasia. Accordingly, the Mediterranean basin consists of several stretched tectonic plates in subduction which are the foundation of the Eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea. Various zones of subduction harbour and form the deepest and most majestic oceanic ridges, east of the Ionian Sea and south of the Aegean. The Central Indian Ridge runs East of the Mediterranean Sea South-East across the in-between of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula into the Indian Ocean. During Mesozoic and Cenozoic times, as the northwest corner of Africa converged on Iberia, it lifted the Betic-Rif mountain belts
Tyuleny Island (Sea of Okhotsk) Tyuleny Island (Sea of Okhotsk) Tyuleny Island ("Ostrov Tyuleniy") is a small island in the Sea of Okhotsk, just east of Russia's Sakhalin island, Northeast Asia. The island is administered by Sakhalin Oblast, in the Russian Far East District of the Russian Federation. It was within the Karafuto Prefecture of Imperial Japan from 1905 to 1945. Tyuleny Island is located off the eastern side of the Gulf of Patience, to the south of Cape Patience ("Mys Terpeniya"), off the coast of the southern end of the Terpeniya Peninsula of eastern Sakhalin island. It is long and wide. Fur seals were