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	REGIONAL LINKS DIRECTORY

	Welcome to the GIN regional links directory. The regional directory is categorised under nine major geographic regions. Each region contains a list of websites specifically relating to the chosen region. All websites listed here have been individually chosen based on their quality of content and appropriateness to the specific region they represent. All links contained within this directory are regularly checked to ensure they are currently available and do not lead to broken or missing links. If you do happen to come across a broken link please let us know - email our webmaster describing the offending link and we promise to attend to it at our earliest opportunity.

	ANTARCTIC The world's coldest and most inaccessible region consists of an ice-covered continent, Antarctica, centred on the South Pole and surrounding this, the vast Southern Ocean, which is largely covered by floating pack ice. The Antarctic is much colder than the Arctic and its only inhabitants are visiting scientists. Various nations claim different parts of the Antarctic mainland. In 1959, twelve nations signed the Antarctic Treaty and agreed that Antarctica should be used for peaceful purposes only.

	ARCTIC The Arctic is an ocean more or less surrounded by land - just the opposite of the Antarctic, which is a huge land mass surrounded by water. The Arctic region generally refers to a rather large land area round the North Pole but the ocean is nearly five times as large as the Mediterranean and is covered with drifting ice which is sometimes 30m thick. Between Greenland and the Canadian mainland is Baffin Island, together with many smaller islands.

	BALTIC An inland sea of northern Europe, the Baltic is nearly 1,600km in length. It lies between Sweden on the west, Finland and the former USSR on the east, and Poland and Germany on the south. It has three main gulfs - the Gulf of Bothnia, the Gulf of Finland and the Gulf of Riga. Navigation in the Baltic has never been easy. The Danish channels and many of the harbours are too shallow for larger ships and wide areas are regularly frozen over for two months of the winter.


	CARIBBEAN Association of Caribbean MediaWorkers Association of Caribbean States Association of Caribbean Universities & Research Institutes Association of Caribbean University, Research & Institutional Libraries Association of Marine Laboratories of the Caribbean BirdsCaribbean Blue Finance Caribbean Agricultural Research & Development Institute [CARDI] Caribbean Alliance for Sustainable Tourism Caribbean Amerindian Centrelink Caribbean Association for Feminist Research and Action Caribbean Association of National Telecommunication Organizations Caribbean Bat Research Caribbean Biodiversity Fund Caribbean Birding Trail Caribbean Centre for Development Administration [CARICAD] Caribbean Centre for Money and Finance Caribbean Climate Online Risk and Adaptation Tool Caribbean Coastal Data Centre Caribbean Coastal Scenarios Caribbean Coastline Change & Management Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre Caribbean Community Secretariat [CARICOM] Caribbean Conference of Churches Caribbean Conservation Network Caribbean Council Caribbean Development Bank Caribbean Disaster Emergency Response Agency Caribbean Disaster Information Network Caribbean Electric Utility Service Corporation Caribbean Energy Information System Caribbean Environmental Health Institute Caribbean Epidemiology Centre Caribbean Export Development Agency Caribbean Fishery Management Council Caribbean Food Crops Society Caribbean Forest Conservation Association Caribbean Geology and Tectonics Caribbean Green Technology Center Caribbean Home Page Caribbean Hotel & Tourism Association Caribbean Hurricane Network Caribbean Information Portal on Renewable Energy Caribbean Institute for Meteorology & Hydrology Caribbean Institute for Sustainable Development Caribbean Invasive Alien Species Network Caribbean Journal of Science Caribbean Knowledge and Learning Network Caribbean Knowledge Management Centre Caribbean Landscape Conservation Cooperative Caribbean Large Marine Ecosystem Project Caribbean Lionfish Response Network Caribbean Marine Atlas Caribbean Marine Protected Areas Management Caribbean Marine Protected Areas Network and Forum Caribbean Maritime Institute Caribbean Media Exchange on Sustainable Tourism Caribbean Natural Resources Institute Caribbean Network for Integrated Rural Development Caribbean News Now Caribbean Newspapers Caribbean Open Institute Caribbean Policy Development Centre Caribbean Policy Research Institute Caribbean Protected Areas Gateway Caribbean Recycling Foundation Caribbean Regional Environmental Programme Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery Caribbean Regional Research Plan Caribbean Renewable Energy Development Programme Caribbean Research & Policy Centre Caribbean Risk Management Initiative Caribbean Shipping Association Caribbean Site Directory Caribbean SPAW Protocol Caribbean Spiders Caribbean Studies Association Caribbean Tourism Organization Caribbean Water and Wastewater Association CaribeNode CARIBSAT Project Central American Commission on Environment & Development Clean Islands International Dutch Caribbean Nature Alliance Eastern Caribbean Cetacean Network Eastern Caribbean Coalition for Environmental Awareness eBird Caribbean ECLAC Subregional HQ for the Caribbean Eco Travels in the Caribbean Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean [ECLAC] Environmental Protection in the Caribbean Flora of the Greater Antilles Flora of the West Indies Global Water Partnership Caribbean Green Antilles Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute Institute of Caribbean Studies Integrating Watershed & Coastal Areas Management in Caribbean SIDS Inter-American Biodiversity Information Network Inter-American Development Bank International Strategy for Disaster Reduction in Latin America and the Caribbean IOCARIBE: IOC Sub-commission for the Caribbean and adjacent regions Island Resources Foundation IUCN SSC Iguana Specialist Group Journal of Caribbean Environmental Sciences and Renewable Energy Latin America Bureau Latin American Network Information Centre Museums Association of the Caribbean OECS Environment and Sustainable Development Unit OneCaribbean Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States Orrin's Caribbean Index Pan American Health Organization Panos Caribbean Parks Caribbean Periferia [Architecture & Urban Design in the Caribbean] Perry Institute for Marine Science Plants of the Eastern Caribbean Regional Disaster Information Center Latin America and the Caribbean Renewable Energy Caribbean Repeating Islands ScubaMom's Gateway to Caribbean Vacation Information Sea Turtle Conservancy Society for Caribbean Studies (UK) SocMon Caribbean Southern Caribbean Cetacean Network Support Caribbean Bananas The Panos Institute Caribbean The Trust for Sustainable Livelihoods Turtles in the Caribbean Overseas Territories U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Caribbean Islands UNESCO CSI Caribbean University of the Virgin Islands Eastern Caribbean Center University of the West Indies [Cave Hill Campus] University of the West Indies [Mona Campus] University of the West Indies [St Augustine Campus] Using Seabirds in Caribbean Marine Planning UWI Centre for Caribbean Land and Environmental Appraisal Research UWI Centre for Marine Sciences UWI Centre for Resource Management and Environmental Studies UWI Seismic Research Unit UWI Sustainable Economic Development Unit UWI The Diplomatic Academy of the Caribbean Water Centre for the Humid Tropics of Latin America and the Caribbean West Indian Amphibians & Reptiles [CARIBHERP] West Indian Breeding Seabird Atlas Wider Caribbean Sea Turtle Conservation Network Wider Caribbean Solid Waste and Recycling Alliance

	INDIAN OCEAN This is the third largest ocean in the world - after the Pacific and Atlantic oceans - and covers an area of 73,555,715sq km. The Indian Ocean is bordered by Africa on the west, India on the north and Australia on the east, but to the south there is open sea as far as the Antarctic. The southern half of the Indian Ocean has no large islands except Madagascar. Those in the northern half include Sri Lanka and Socotra besides many smaller ones.

	MEDITERRANEAN The Mediterranean Sea is almost landlocked, being joined with the open Atlantic Ocean only by the narrow Strait of Gibraltar. It lies between Europe and Africa and is more than 3,220km long. The north side of the Mediterranean is broken up by the Adriatic and Aegean seas as well as by the peninsulas of Italy and Greece. Most of the islands are in the northern part of the sea. In 1869 the Suez Canal was opened, thus making the Mediterranean the shortest sea route between Europe and the East.

	NORTH ATLANTIC The northern half of the world's second largest ocean is rich in islands, varied coastline and tributary seas. On the west are the Caribbean, the Gulf of Mexico, the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Hudson Bay and Baffin Bay. To the east are the Mediterranean, the Black Sea, the North Sea and the Baltic Sea. As well as purely oceanic islands there are those which rise from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, including the Azores. Other islands such as The Canaries and Madeira rise from Africa's continental margins.

	PACIFIC The Pacific is the largest and deepest of all the oceans with an area of 165 million square kilometres, an area greater than that of all the world's lands put together. At its greatest width the Pacific measures 17,220km. It extends from the Bering Straits of the Arctic Circle, to Cape Adare, Antarctica, a distance of 15,450km. There are very few islands in the eastern Pacific. Its northern and western borders are fringed with chains of islands including The Aleutians, The Kurils and the Ryukus. The Inner Pacific islands are divided into three main groups - Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia.

	SOUTHEAST ASIA Southeast Asia is the name for the peninsular area of the Asian continent that lies between India and China, and stretches south along a chain of islands towards Australia. The countries of mainland Southeast Asia are Malaysia, Burma, Vietnam, Laos, Kampuchea, Thailand and Singapore. Further south lies insular (island) Southeast Asia. This is made up of thousands of islands containing the countries of the Philippines, Brunei, Indonesia and East Timor.