Sardinian Sea

The Sardinian Sea stretches across the western Mediterranean between Sardinia and the Balearic Islands. Its open waters belong to the Algerian basin, south of the Balearic chain and north of the African coast. To the east, the mountainous island of Sardinia offers a long western shore broken by gulfs and headlands. The sea forms a wide passage between the island and Iberia, with no continuous land between the two coasts.