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. kmò.
Geography
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 km<sup>2</sup>
- Banda Sea - 695,000 km<sup>2</sup>
- Arafura Sea - 650,000 km<sup>2</sup>
- Timor Sea - 610,000 km<sup>2</sup>
- Celebes Sea - 472,000 km<sup>2</sup>
- Java Sea - 320,000 km<sup>2</sup>
- Gulf of Thailand - 320,000 km<sup>2</sup>
- Gulf of Carpentaria - 300,000 km<sup>2</sup>
- Sulu Sea - 260,000 km<sup>2</sup>
- Molucca Sea - 200,000 km<sup>2</sup>
- Natuna Sea
- Gulf of Tonkin - 126,250 km<sup>2</sup>
- Flores Sea - 121,000 km<sup>2</sup>
- Savu Sea - 105,000 km<sup>2</sup>
- Halmahera Sea - 95,000 km<sup>2</sup>
- Bali Sea - 45,000 km<sup>2</sup>
- Joseph Bonaparte Gulf - 26,780 km<sup>2</sup>
- Van Diemen Gulf - 12,035 km<sup>2</sup>
- Seram Sea - 12,000 km<sup>2</sup>
- Sibuyan Sea
- Clarence Strait
- Straits of Johor
- Karimata Strait
- Lombok Strait
- Luzon Strait
- Makassar Strait
- Strait of Malacca
- Ombai Strait
- Qiongzhou Strait
- Riau Strait
- Singapore Strait
- Sunda Strait
- Taiwan Strait
- Torres Strait
- Gaspar Strait
- 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 Quá»Âc, Ko Chang, Samui archipelago, Nang Yuan, Ko Phangan, Ko Samui, Ko Tao, Tioman, Melville Island, Maluku 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.
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