The complex dispute over sovereignty in the 1.2m square miles of sea has been simmering for decades, but has grown increasingly fractious in the past few years.

超过1.2平方英里海域的复杂领土争端问题在过去的几十年中缓慢升温，但在过去的几年里变得格外糟糕。

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The spill spread over 165 square miles and posed a serious threat to both sea life and water quality.

原油的蔓延扩散超过了165平方英里，对海洋生物和水质造成了严重威胁。

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Composed of some 3,000 individual reefs and 900 islands, it stretches for 1,616 miles and is strung out over 133,000 square miles of the Coral Sea in Queensland, north east Australia.

约由3000个珊瑚礁和900个岛屿组成，绵延1 616英里，位于澳大利亚东北部昆士兰州占地133 000平方英里的珊瑚海。

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The rich oil fields of the Caspian Sea lay over 1, 800 miles to the west, while there were unstable neighbours less than a couple of miles to the south.

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Homes on Dikson Island off the coast of northern Russia in the Kara Sea felt shockwaves from the blast that reportedly blew out windows over 490 miles away.

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Last week, a clutch of European countries launched plans to develop a vast network of offshore wind-farms over an area of about 293, 438 square miles in the North Sea.

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