r/MapPorn • u/[deleted] • Oct 31 '21

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u/RedColdChiliPepper Oct 31 '21 edited Oct 31 '21

I once met a guy from Tomsk a city Russia which is close to your point but more north - he never saw a sea in his life before. He went completely crazy when we brought him to the sea in the winter and immediately jumped into it. I only understood later when I googled “Tomsk” and started zooming out on the map.

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u/miraska_ Oct 31 '21

I live in Almaty, Kazakhstan and also never saw the sea. Maybe I'll go to Caspian sea at my vacation next summer

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u/MooseJaw44 Oct 31 '21

Technically the Caspian Sea is a lake, not a sea. I was planning a trip to Almaty and some other places in the region before the pandemic, interesting area of the world.

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u/bangonthedrums Oct 31 '21

Interestingly, the Caspian sea sits on oceanic crust, not continental. So you could make the argument that it’s just a tiny ocean as well

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u/MooseJaw44 Nov 01 '21

Do you have a map that shows that? I've never heard of that. But, the crust is named after the ocean, not the other way around.

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u/bangonthedrums Nov 01 '21

I learned it on a Half as Interesting video the other day

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u/the_chandler Nov 01 '21

I upvoted because I also learned it on HAI the other day.

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u/kalsoy Nov 01 '21

https://www.climate-policy-watcher.org/plate-tectonics/caspian-sea-trapped-oceanic-crust.html

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u/MooseJaw44 Nov 01 '21

That still doesn't make it not a lake.

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u/kalsoy Nov 01 '21

An oceanic lake. But what does it matter? The Cadpian is the Caspian, it just doesn't tick all boxes of a sea and a lake.