Australasian Mediterranean Sea

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
List
  •  Australia
     Brunei
     Cambodia
     China
     Indonesia
     Malaysia
     Palau
     Papua New Guinea
     Philippines
     Singapore
     Taiwan
     Thailand
     Timor-Leste
     Vietnam
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. 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. Van Diemen Gulf - 12,035 km2
  18. Seram Sea - 12,000 km2
  19. Sibuyan Sea
  20. Clarence Strait
  21. Straits of Johor
  22. Karimata Strait
  23. Lombok Strait
  24. Luzon Strait
  25. Makassar Strait
  26. Strait of Malacca
  27. Ombai Strait
  28. Qiongzhou Strait
  29. Riau Strait
  30. Singapore Strait
  31. Sunda Strait
  32. Taiwan Strait
  33. Torres Strait
  34. Gaspar Strait
  35. 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:

  • 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 Islands, 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.

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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