The greatest depth of 4,384 m (14,383 ft) is found in the Pliny Trench, about 80 km (50 mi) south of Crete.

The Leviathan gas field is quite central in the south-eastern corner, the Levantine Basin.

This is the Lessepsian migration, after Ferdinand de Lesseps, the chief engineer of the canal.

Since the Aswan High Dam sits across the river in the 1960s it has facilitated the multiplication of Egyptian agriculture and population.

This has decimated the morning sardine litorine haul in nets but favored many Red Sea species.