{"id":169,"date":"2016-11-29T16:15:01","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T16:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-12\/?p=169"},"modified":"2020-10-15T08:12:58","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T08:12:58","slug":"the-strategic-importance-of-convergence-zones-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-12\/the-strategic-importance-of-convergence-zones-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Strategic Importance of Convergence Zones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/464939415\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/464924850\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A convergence zone is an area where shipping lanes converge and then spread out. Because these are relatively narrow areas on a sea route through which many ships pass, the zones become important as shown below:<\/p>\n<p>Lots of ships passing an area means<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The area becomes economically important<\/li>\n<li>The area becomes strategically important<\/li>\n<li>The area becomes militarily important<\/li>\n<li>The area becomes politically important.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The most important convergence zones are shown on the map below<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_128\" style=\"width: 847px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-128\" class=\"wp-image-128 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-12\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/11\/11_2_strategic_straits_Gr12.png\" alt=\"11_2_strategic_straits_gr12\" width=\"837\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-12\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/11\/11_2_strategic_straits_Gr12.png 837w, https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-12\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/11\/11_2_strategic_straits_Gr12-300x186.png 300w, https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-12\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/11\/11_2_strategic_straits_Gr12-768x475.png 768w, https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-12\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/11\/11_2_strategic_straits_Gr12-236x146.png 236w, https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-12\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/11\/11_2_strategic_straits_Gr12-50x31.png 50w, https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-12\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/11\/11_2_strategic_straits_Gr12-121x75.png 121w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 837px) 100vw, 837px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-128\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>A<\/strong> &#8211; Suez Canal to Bab-el-Mandeb; <strong>B<\/strong> &#8211; Turkish Straits; <strong>C<\/strong> &#8211; Straits of Gibraltar; <strong>D<\/strong> &#8211; English Channel &amp; Straits of Dover;<strong> E<\/strong> &#8211; Panama Canal; <strong>F<\/strong> &#8211; Cape Agulhas; <strong>G<\/strong> &#8211; Straits of Hormuz; <strong>H<\/strong>&#8211; Straits of Malacca<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Students will find it interesting to go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marinetraffic.com\/\">www.marinetraffic.com<\/a> and zoom into each of these convergence zones to see the volume of shipping passing through each zone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A convergence zone is an area where shipping lanes converge and then spread out. Because these are relatively narrow areas on a sea route through which many ships pass, the zones become important as shown below: Lots of ships passing an area means The area becomes economically important The area [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-12-3-international-trade","category-12-3-2-the-strategic-importance-of-convergence-zones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":408,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions\/408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}