Australasian Mediterranean Sea
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.
| Australasian Mediterranean Sea | |
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  Australasian Mediterranean Sea | |
| Coordinates | 6.5°S 123.9°E |
| Type | Sea |
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| Surface area | 9,080,000 km2 (3,510,000 sq mi) |
| Max. depth | 7,440 m (24,410 ft) |
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Geography
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In contrast to the American Mediterranean Sea and Mediterranean Sea it is not surrounded by continents, only by islands and peninsulas. It includes the following seas:
- South China Sea - 3.5 million km²
- Banda Sea - 695,000 km²
- Arafura sea - 650,000 km²
- Timor Sea - 610,000 km²
- Java Sea - 320,000 km²
- Gulf of Thailand - 320,000 km²
- Gulf of Carpentaria - 300,000 km²
- Celebes Sea - 280,000 km²
- Sulu Sea - 260,000 km²
- Flores Sea - 240,000 km²
- Molucca Sea - 200,000 km²
- Gulf of Tonkin - 126,250 km²
- Halmahera Sea - 95,000 km²
- Bali Sea - 45,000 km²
- Savu Sea - 35,000 km²
- Joseph Bonaparte Gulf - 26,780 km²
- Seram Sea - 12,000 km²
- Straits of Johor
- Lombok Strait
- Luzon Strait
- Makassar Strait
- Strait of Malacca
- Qiongzhou Strait
- Singapore Strait
- Taiwan Strait
- 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:
- Bathurst Island, Groote Eylandt, Hainan Dao, Phú Quốc, Ko Chang, Samui archipelago, Nang Yuan, Ko Phangan, Ko Samui, Ko Tao, Tioman, Melville islands, Maluka islands, New Guinea, Paracel Islands, Pratas Island, Philippines, Riau, Sangir Archipelago, Spratly Islands, Greater Sunda Islands (Borneo, Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi), Lesser Sunda Islands (Bali, Flores, Komodo Islands, Lombok, Sumba, Sumbawa, Timor), Taiwan, and Talaud Islands.
References
- Jochen Kämpf (2010). Advanced Ocean Modelling: Using Open-Source Software. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 138. ISBN 978-3-642-10610-1.
- 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.
- 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)
