Australasian Mediterranean Sea


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

Geography

In contrast to the American Mediterranean Sea and Mediterranean Sea, it is not surrounded 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. Celebes Sea - 472,000 km2
  6. Java Sea - 320,000 km2
  7. Gulf of Thailand - 320,000 km2
  8. Gulf of Carpentaria - 300,000 km2
  9. Sulu Sea - 260,000 km2
  10. Molucca Sea - 200,000 km2
  11. Natuna Sea
  12. Gulf of Tonkin - 126,250 km2
  13. Flores Sea - 121,000 km2
  14. Savu Sea - 105,000 km2
  15. Halmahera Sea - 95,000 km2
  16. Bali Sea - 45,000 km2
  17. Joseph Bonaparte Gulf - 26,780 km2
  18. Van Diemen Gulf - 12,035 km2
  19. Seram Sea - 12,000 km2
  20. Sibuyan Sea
  21. Clarence Strait
  22. Straits of Johor
  23. Karimata Strait
  24. Lombok Strait
  25. Luzon Strait
  26. Makassar Strait
  27. Strait of Malacca
  28. Ombai Strait
  29. Qiongzhou Strait
  30. Riau Strait
  31. Singapore Strait
  32. Sunda Strait
  33. Taiwan Strait
  34. Torres Strait
  35. Gaspar Strait
  36. 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: