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) 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) Lombok Strait
 * 20) Luzon Strait
 * 21) Makassar Strait
 * 22) Strait of Malacca
 * 23) Qiongzhou Strait
 * 24) Singapore Strait
 * 25) Taiwan Strait
 * 26) 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.