Australasian Mediterranean Sea
Australasian Mediterranean Sea is located in Indian Ocean
Australasian Mediterranean Sea
Australasian Mediterranean Sea
Coordinates6°30′S 123°54′E / 6.5°S 123.9°E / -6.5; 123.9
TypeSea
Basin countries
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Surface area9,080,000 km2 (3,510,000 sq mi)
Max. depth7,440 m (24,410 ft)

The Australasian Mediterranean Sea is a mediterranean sea located in the area between Southeast Asia and Australasia.[1] It connects the Indian and Pacific oceans.[2] It has a maximum depth of 7,440 m[3] and a surface area of 9.08 mil. km².

Geography

Australasian shoveler swimming
Australasian Gannet flying over sea

In contrast to the American Mediterranean Sea and Mediterranean Sea, it is not surrounded by continents, only by islands and peninsulas.[clarification needed] It includes the following seas:

  1. South China Sea - 3.5 million km²
  2. Banda Sea - 695,000 km²
  3. Arafura sea - 650,000 km²
  4. Timor Sea - 610,000 km²
  5. Java Sea - 320,000 km²
  6. Gulf of Thailand - 320,000 km²
  7. Gulf of Carpentaria - 300,000 km²
  8. Celebes Sea - 280,000 km²
  9. Sulu Sea - 260,000 km²
  10. Flores Sea - 240,000 km²
  11. Molucca Sea - 200,000 km²
  12. Gulf of Tonkin - 126,250 km²
  13. Halmahera Sea - 95,000 km²
  14. Bali Sea - 45,000 km²
  15. Savu Sea - 35,000 km²
  16. Joseph Bonaparte Gulf - 26,780 km²
  17. Seram Sea - 12,000 km²
  18. Straits of Johor
  19. Lombok Strait
  20. Luzon Strait
  21. Makassar Strait
  22. Strait of Malacca
  23. Qiongzhou Strait
  24. Singapore Strait
  25. Taiwan Strait
  26. Sunda Strait

States or territories with a coast on the Australasian Mediterranean Sea are: Australia, Brunei, China, Indonesia, Cambodia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Timor-Leste and Vietnam. It includes the straits of Malacca, Singapore and Luzon, and adjoins the peninsulas of Indochina and Malaysia. The following islands are located within it:

See also

References

  1. ^ Jochen Kämpf (2010). Advanced Ocean Modelling: Using Open-Source Software. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 138. ISBN 978-3-642-10610-1.
  2. ^ International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN). Global Marine and Polar Programme. (1 May 2015). Bridging the gap between ocean acidification impacts and economic valuation: Regional impacts of ocean acidification on fisheries and aquaculture. IUCN. p. 113. ISBN 978-2-8317-1723-4.
  3. ^ Tomczak, Matthias & J Stuart Godfrey (2003), Regional Oceanography: an Introduction Archived 2021-05-06 at the Wayback Machine, ch. 13 ("Adjacent seas of the Indian Ocean and the Australasian Mediterranean Sea (the Indonesian throughflow)", pp. 220-8. Daya Publishing House. ISBN 8170353068 (pdf)
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