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Default Re: Why the Red Sea have this name?

Read this this morning and thought I'd come back and post it, looks like theres a couple hypothetical reasons for the color.

Red Sea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Originally Posted by bluedolphin View Post
Hello,
as you said, there are really a lot of stories about the original cause of the name “Red Sea”. I also heard some, one of them was that the name was created because the glow of the sunset behind the mountains in the west is reflected, like this the surface of the sea turns into this shiny red colour. But in my opinion the tale of the blue alga is the most plausible. I also could watch this nature phenomenon a few times at the red sea coast.
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