An arm of the Pacific Ocean in eastern Indonesia southeast of Sulawesi and north of Timor. It includes the Banda Islands, a group of volcanic islands in the Moluccas south of Ceram.
Banda Sea
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An arm of the Pacific Ocean in eastern Indonesia southeast of Sulawesi and north of Timor. It includes the Banda Islands, a group of volcanic islands in the Moluccas south of Ceram.
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Banda Sea (băn'də, bän'dä), section of the Pacific Ocean, c.600 mi (970 km) long and c.300 mi (480 km) wide, E Indonesia, outlined by the South Molucca islands. The deepest point is c.24,000 ft (7,300 m). Reefs and currents near the sea's islands are a hazard to shipping.
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The Banda Sea is the sea of the South Moluccas in Indonesia, technically part of the Pacific Ocean but separated from it by hundreds of islands, as well as the Halmahera and Ceram Seas. It is about 1000 km (600 mi) east to west, and about 500 km (300 mi) north to south.
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Islands
Islands bordering the Banda Sea include Sulawesi to the west, Buru, Ambon Island, Ceram, Aru Islands, Tanimbar Islands, Barat Daya Islands, and Timor. Although the borders of the sea are hazardous to navigation, with many small rocky islands, the middle of the sea is relatively open. Island groups within the sea include the Banda Islands.
Plate Tectonic activities in Banda Sea
The Banda Sea occupies the main portion of the Banda Sea Plate. The southern margin of the sea consists of island arcs above subduction zones. To the east of the Sunda Trench is the Timor Trough which lies south of Timor, the Tanimbar Trough south of the Tanimbar Islands and the Aru Trough east of the Aru Islands. These trenches are the subduction zone of the Indo-Australian plate beneath the Banda Sea Plate, where the Indo-Australian Plate moves nothwards. Fore-arc sediments progressively carried northwards by the Indo-Australian Plate have been folded and faulted forming Timor island. To the northeast lies Seram Island which overlies the subduction of the Bird's Head Plate of West Irian.[1]
Earthquakes
Earthquakes are very frequent in the area, due to the confluence of three tectonic plates - Eurasian, Pacific and Indo-Australian plates.
- 1938 Banda Sea earthquake
- 2005 Banda Sea earthquake
- 2006 Banda Sea earthquake
2009 Banda Sea earthquake
See also
References
- ^ http://www.unescap.org/esd/water/publications/mineral/amrs/vol17/Chapter%20II(new).pdf ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMISSION FOR ASIA AND THE PACIFIC ATLAS OF MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE ESCAP REGION Volume 17, Chapter II (Geology of Timor-Leste)
Further reading
- Ponder, H. W. (1944) In Javanese waters; some sidelights on a few of the countless lovely, little known islands scattered over the Banda sea & some glimpses of their strange & stormy history London, Seeley, Service & Co. ltd.
- Patrick D. Nunn(1994) Oceanic Islands Oxford, Great Britain, Blackwell
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Coordinates: 5°27′26″S 127°23′12″E / 5.45722°S 127.38667°E
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Deutsch (German)
n. - Banda-See, Bandasee
Português (Portuguese)
n. - Mar Banda
中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
班达海
中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 班達海
- banda Sea 반다해 (동만 아프리카에 위치한 말라위 공화국령의 바다)
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ים באנדה
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