Philippine Sea - Philippine Sea (English spelling)

Japanese: フィリピン海 - フィリピンかい（英語表記）Philippine Sea

One of the oceans in the western Pacific Ocean. An area of sea that stretches along the eastern edge of the Philippine Islands (Luzon, Samal, Mindanao, etc.). Other nearby islands include Palau Islands, Yap Island, Ulithi Atoll, Mariana Islands, Ogasawara Islands, Japanese Islands, Ryukyu Islands, and Taiwan. It stretches 2,900 km from north to south and 2,400 km from east to west, with an area of 1 million ^km2 . The seafloor was formed as a tectonic basin by folding and faulting during the formation of the surrounding island arcs. The average depth is 6,000 m, and the deepest point is 10,497 m in the Philippine Trench. There are many seamounts that rise from the bottom of the basin, some of which are flat-topped volcanic seamounts covered with coral. The warm North Equatorial Current flows westward across the southern Philippine Sea and strikes the Philippine Islands. Part of it turns north near Luzon and becomes the Kuroshio Current. Part of it returns to the Philippine Sea as the Kuroshio Countercurrent, and part of it becomes the North Equatorial Countercurrent. This is where hurricanes and typhoons originate, and storms are particularly strong in September. This was the battlefield of the decisive battle between Japan and the United States in World War II (1944).

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Japanese:

太平洋西部にある付属海の一つ。フィリピン諸島 (ルソン島，サマル島，ミンダナオ島など) の東縁に沿って広がる海域。周辺にはほかに，パラオ諸島，ヤップ島，ウリシ環礁，マリアナ諸島，小笠原諸島，日本列島，琉球諸島，台湾などがある。南北 2900km，東西 2400km，面積 100万 km²。海底は周辺の島弧形成の際に，褶曲・断層運動によって構造盆地として形成された。平均水深 6000m，最深部はフィリピン海溝の1万 497m。海盆底からそびえ立つ多数の海山があり，一部は頂部が平坦な火山性平頂海山でサンゴにおおわれている。暖かい北赤道海流がフィリピン海南部を横切って西へ流れ，フィリピン諸島にぶつかって，一部はルソン島近くで北に転進して黒潮となり，一部は黒潮反流としてフィリピン海に戻り，さらに一部は北赤道反流となる。ハリケーンや台風の発生場所で，暴風雨は特に9月が強い。第2次世界大戦で，日米決戦の戦場とされた (1944) 。

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