NODC Sea Name (Seaname) Code List This file contains a list of sea names and the associated codes that are used by various data formats. The list is sorted by name. This list was generated from the NODC Authority Tables. NODC Code Sea Name 28I Adriatic Sea 28J Aegean Sea 28(b) Alboran Sea 44 Andaman Sea or Burma Sea 39 Arabian Sea 48H Arafura Sea 17 Arctic Ocean 58B Auke Bay 14A Baffin Bay 28E Balearic (or Iberian) Sea 48L Bali Sea 1 Baltic Sea 48G Banda Sea 7 Barents Sea 62A Bass Strait 43 Bay of Bengal 22 Bay of Biscay 25 Bay of Fundy 13 Beaufort Sea 55 Bering Sea 55A Bering Sea - Coastal Waters of Western Alaska 23R Biscayne Bay - Florida 66 Bismarck Sea 30 Black Sea 20 Bristol Channel 23T Canarias Sea 27 Caribbean Sea 48B Celebes Sea (Sulawesi Sea and Mindanao Sea) 21A Celtic Sea 48F Ceram Sea or Seram Sea 23J Chesapeake Bay 52A Chinhae Bay 12 Chukchi Sea 12A Chukchi Sea - NW Coast of Alaska 57D Coastal Waters of California 64A Coastal Waters of Great Barrier Reefs 26C Coastal Waters of Gulf of Mexico 57L Coastal Waters of Hawaii 59 Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia 57E Coastal Waters of Washington/Oregon 57C Coastal Waters of Western U.S. 57J Columbia River estuary - Washington/Oregon 64 Coral Sea 15 Davis Strait 23I Delaware Bay 32C Drake Passage 50 East China Sea (Tung Hai) 23P East Coast - US/Canada 48 East Indian Archipelago 11 East Siberian Sea 21 English Channel 57M Equatorial Pacific Ocean 48J Flores Sea 23Q Florida Bay - Florida 62 Great Australian Bight 23N Great Lakes 5 Greenland Sea (including Iceland Sea and North Greenland Sea) 38 Gulf of Aden 58 Gulf of Alaska 36 Gulf of Aqaba 48K Gulf of Boni 1A Gulf of Bothnia 32D Gulf of Cadiz 60 Gulf of California 51A Gulf of Chihli (Po Hai) 1B Gulf of Finland 34 Gulf of Guinea 23E Gulf of Maine 45B Gulf of Mannar 26 Gulf of Mexico 40 Gulf of Oman 1C Gulf of Riga 24 Gulf of St. Lawrence 35 Gulf of Suez 47 Gulf of Thailand 48D Gulf of Tomini 48E Halmahera Sea 16 Hudson Bay 16A Hudson Strait 23S Iceland Sea 45 Indian Ocean 53 Inland Sea (Seto Naikai) 18 Inner Sea - West Coast Scotland 28H Ionian Sea 19 Irish Sea and St. George's Channel 52 Japan Sea 48N Java Sea 9 Kara Sea 2 Kattegat, The Sound, Great Belt, Little Belt 15A Labrador Sea 42 Laccadive Sea 42A Lakshadweep Sea 10 Laptev (or Nordenskjold) Sea 28F Ligurian Sea 17A Lincoln Sea 23G Long Island Sound 48M Makassar Strait 46 Malacca and Singapore Straits 46A Malacca Straits 23F Massachusetts Bay 28 Mediterranean Sea 28B Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin 28A Mediterranean Sea - Western Basin 23L Mid-Atlantic Bight 48C Molucca Sea 45A Mozambique Channel 23H New York Bight 23K New York Harbor 23C North American Coastline-North 23D North American Coastline-South 23 North Atlantic Ocean 23A Northeast Atlantic Ocean (limit-40 W) 57A Northeast Pacific Ocean (limit-180) 57 North Pacific Ocean 4 North Sea 23B Northwest Atlantic Ocean (limit-40 W) 14 Northwestern Passages 57B Northwest Pacific Ocean (limit-180) 6 Norwegian Sea 45C Palk Strait and Palk Bay 23K Pamlico Sound 48P Patuxent River estuary - Maryland 23O Penobscot Bay - Maine 41 Persian Gulf (Gulf of Iran) 56 Philippine Sea 58C Prince William Sound (Gulf of Alaska) 57F Puget Sound 37 Red Sea 33 Rio de la Plata 67A Ross Sea 26B Sarasota Bay 48O Savu Sea 31 Sea of Azov 29 Sea of Marmara 54 Sea of Okhotsk 46B Singapore Straits 3 Skagerrak 65 Solomon Sea 32 South Atlantic Ocean 49 South China Sea (Nan Hai) 32A Southeast Atlantic Ocean (limit-20 W) 61B Southeast Pacific Ocean (limit-140 W) 67 Southern Ocean 61 South Pacific Ocean 32B Southwest Atlantic Ocean (limit-20 W) 61A Southwest Pacific Ocean (limit-147 E to 140 W) 28C Strait of Gibraltar 28K Strait of Sicilia 23M Straits of Florida 48R Sulawesi Sea 48A Sulu Sea 45D Sumba Strait 48P Sunda Strait 57K Taiwan Strait or Formosa Strait (T'ai-Wan Hai-Hsia) 26A Tampa Bay 63 Tasman Sea 48I Timor Sea 57H TOGA Area - Atlantic 57I TOGA Area - Indian 57G TOGA Area - Pacific (30 N to 30 S) 64B Torres Strait 28G Tyrrhenian Sea 61C Weddell Sea 8 White Sea 88 World-Wide Distribution 51 Yellow Sea (Hwang Hai)