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
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
Surface area9,080,000 km2 (3,510,000 sq mi)
Max. depth7,440 m (24,410 ft)

Geography

edit
 
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. Riau Strait
  20. Karimata Strait
  21. Lombok Strait
  22. Luzon Strait
  23. Makassar Strait
  24. Ombai Strait
  25. Strait of Malacca
  26. Qiongzhou Strait
  27. Singapore Strait
  28. Taiwan Strait
  29. Sunda Strait
  30. Gaspar Strait
  31. Wetar 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

edit

References

edit
  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)