Prelims Map Based Questions - 6 - BPSC (Bihar) MCQ

Denmark’s Artifi cial Island

• Denmark has recently approved plans to build an artifi cial island in the North Sea that could generate wind power for at least three million households.
• The island, “the largest construction project in the history of Denmark”, is to be majorityowned by the Danish government in partnership with private companies and is expected to cost about 210 billion Danish kroner ($34bn, 28 billion euros).
• Rather than a traditional off shore wind power farm, the island will function as an “energy hub” allowing connections from other countries’ wind power farms and cables to effi  ciently distribute the incoming energy.

Statement 1 is incorrect: It is the fi fth largest island of the Mediterranean.

Option (a) is correct: Darfur is a region of the western Sudan.

Option (c) is correct: The Pacifi c Pumas are a political and economic grouping of countries along Latin America’s Pacifi c coast that includes Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru.
These four countries along Latin America’s west coast have taken great strides in recent years, and they are poised to emerge as regional leaders. Like the animal, these Pacifi c Pumas are comfortable operating quietly, away from the spotlight. But their positive momentum is diffi  cult to ignore.

Push for Chabahar Port in INSTC Corridor

• Recently India expressed its intent to include Chabahar port in the 13-nation International North South Transport Corridor (INSTC) that extends from India to Russia, and to expand INSTC membership by including Afghanistan and Uzbekistan, at a “Chabahar Day” event organized as part of Maritime India summit.
• Pitching for Chabahar in the INSTC which goes via Iran’s biggest port Bandar Abbas, India proposed that the land route via Kabul (Afghanistan) and Tashkent (Uzbekistan) would form the INSTC’s “Eastern corridor”.
• Establishing an eastern corridor through Afghanistan would maximize its potential.
• India highlighted Chabahar’s role in recent years in sending Indian humanitarian aid and emergency supplies to Afghanistan and Iran and in opening up trade opportunities.
• The INSTC project was originally decided between India, Iran and Russia in 2000 in St Petersburg, and subsequently included 10 other central Asian and west Asian countries: Azerbaijan Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkey, Ukraine, Belarus, Oman, Syria and Bulgaria as an observer.
• It envisions a 7,200-km-long multi-mode network of ship, rail and road route for transporting freight, aimed at reducing the carriage cost between India and Russia by about 30% and bringing down the transit time from 40 days by more than half.

Option (c) is correct: Sea of Okhotsk-Yellow Sea-East China Sea-Philippines Sea

• Statement 1 is incorrect: It is the thirdsmallest nation in Asia after the Maldives and Singapore.
• Statement 2 is incorrect: Bahrain is a member of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)

Whitsun Reef

• China’s aggressive expansion in the region has found a new ground, Whitsun Reef, where 220 Chinese vessels are currently moored though the area, which comes under the Philippines’ Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZ).
• China claims the reef under their nine-dash line.
• The Philippines is of the concern that if China is successful with its moves, the Philippines may lose another fi shing ground, similar to what happened in 2012 when China took control of Scarborough Shoal.
• In April 2020, China sank a Vietnamese fi shing vessel and also disrupted Malaysian oil exploration.
• It is a reef at the northeast extreme limit of the Union Banks in the Spratly Islands of the West Philippine Sea.It is the largest reef of the Union Banks.

Option (d) is correct: It does not border Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.

Gulf of İskenderun

• The Gulf of Alexandretta or İskenderun is a gulf of the eastern Mediterranean or Levantine Sea. It lies beside the southern Turkish provinces of Adana and Hatay.
• It was also formerly known as the Sea or Gulf of Issus.
• The Gulf of Alexandretta forms the easternmost bay or inlet of the Mediterranean Sea.

Option (c) is correct: Belarus is bordered by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest.

Option (b) is correct: Tigray region is the northernmost region of Ethiopia. Tigray is bordered by Eritrea to the north, Sudan to the west, the Amhara Region to the south and the Afar Region to the east and south east.

Option (d) is correct: Kara and Laptev Sea are a part of Arctic Ocean.

Option (c) is correct: East to West: Gulf of 
Thailand-Gulf of Oman-Persian Gulf-Gulf of Aden.