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An ocean is a
body of saline water that composes much of a planet's hydrosphere. Extraterrestrial oceans may be composed of
water or other elements and compounds. The only confirmed large stable bodies of
extraterrestrial surface liquids are the lakes of Titan, although there is
evidence for the existence of oceans elsewhere in the Solar System. Source
Saint Lucia is a sovereign island country in the eastern Caribbean Sea on the boundary with the Atlantic Ocean. Part of the Lesser Antilles, it is located north/northeast of the island of Saint Vincent, northwest of Barbados and south of Martinique. It covers a land area of 617 km2 and has a population of 174,000. Its capital is Castries. One of the Windward Islands, Saint Lucia was named after Saint Lucy of Syracuse by the French, the island's first European settlers. Source
Maldives officially the Republic of the Maldives and also referred to as the Maldive Islands, is an island nation in the Indian Ocean–Arabian Sea area, consisting of a double chain of twenty-six atolls. Maldives is the lowest country in the world, with maximum and average natural ground levels of only 2.4 metres and 1.5 metres in above sea level, respectively. In areas where construction exists, however, this has been increased to several metres. More than 80 per cent of the country's land is composed of coral islands which rise less than one metre above sea level. Source
A storm is
any disturbed state of an environment or astronomical body's atmosphere
especially affecting its surface, and strongly implying severe weather. It may
be marked by significant disruptions to normal conditions such as strong wind, hail,
thunder and lightning, heavy precipitation, heavy freezing rain, strong winds,
or wind transporting some substance through the atmosphere as in a dust storm, blizzard,
sandstorm, etc. Source
A natural landscape is a landscape that is unaffected by human activity. A natural landscape is intact when all living and nonliving elements are free to move and change. A natural landscape may contain either the living or nonliving or both. In his extensive travels in South America, Alexander von Humboldt became the first to conceptualize a natural landscape separate from the cultural landscape.The ancient landscape, the undisturbed wilderness and the managed landscape. Source
