A complete collection of detailed information on Timor Sea

The Timor Sea is a branch of the Indian Ocean. Located in the southeast of Timor Island and northwest of Australia. It borders the Indian Ocean in the west and the Arafura Sea in the east. It is about 480 kilometers (300 miles) wide, with an area of about 665,438+05,000 square kilometers (235,000 square miles) and a volume of 250,000 cubic kilometers. The maximum depth of the North Timor Trench is over 3,300m (10,800ft). However, the depth of the sea above 1/2 is less than 200 meters (650 feet).

Chinese name: mbth, Timor Sea: Timor Sea width: about 408km Area: 6 15000km2 Maximum depth: over 3300m Current velocity: 0.8 ~ 1.6km/h Volume: 250,000km3 Latitude: 7.4 south latitude, east longitude/kloc-. Big Bay: Joseph Bonaparte Bay, Big Bay and other large islands: Melville Island, Bathurst Island and other ocean basins: The tidal level of Bonaparte Basin: coastal countries with a maximum height of 9 meters: Australia, East Timor and Indonesia. Sea water temperature: 10- 17.4℃. Resources, geographical location, marine landforms, climate and ocean currents, earthquake news and biological curiosity. Timor Sea is an important oil field, producing oil on the Sahur continental shelf and the northwest coast of Australia. Geographical location connects the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. Located between Timor Island and northwest Australia. It borders the Indian Ocean in the west and the Arafura Sea in the east. The marine geomorphic sea area is shallow in the south and deep in the north, with a water depth of more than 200 meters in the north, and there is a Timor Trough with a depth of 2000 meters, slightly northeast-southwest trend. There is a Bonaparte basin in the middle of the sea, and a narrow valley in the northeast of the basin is connected with the Timor Trough, and the deepest part in the northeast of the Timor Trough is 3200m. The average water depth in the sea area is 406 meters. The Australian continental shelf in the south of this sea area accounts for about 2/3 of this sea area, which is called Sachl continental shelf. It is more than 300 meters wide, and there are 8 shoals in the depth of 100 meters. There is also a large shallow sea area with a water depth of less than 30 meters in the northwest of Bathurst Island 180 kilometers. The northern islands are mountainous, often with strong earthquakes and sedimentary rock banks, and the rivers are short and urgent. Except the coral reef on the coast of Luodi Island, the coasts of other islands are steep, and the bank slope is steep within 10 km, and the water depth drops to more than 200 meters. Australia's coast is a sinking coast, with extremely tortuous coastline and numerous bays. The larger bays are Joseph Bonaparte Bay and Big Bay. The Oder, Victoria and Deli rivers all flow into the sea at Joseph Bonaparte Bay. There are many islands along the coast. The larger islands are Melville Island and Bathurst Island in the east, and there are many coral reefs on the shore. There is a Bonaparte basin in the middle of the sea, and a narrow valley in the northeast of the basin is connected with the Timor Trough, and the deepest part in the northeast of the Timor Trough is 3200m. The average water depth in the sea area is 406 meters. The Australian continental shelf in the south of the sea area, called Sachl continental shelf, is more than 300 meters wide and less than 100 meters deep.

The tidal level on the continental shelf is generally more than 2 meters, up to 9 meters, and the tidal level near Darwin Harbour is 6 meters. Climate ocean current area belongs to tropical monsoon climate, and the temperature and precipitation change with the change of prevailing wind, with annual precipitation of 2000 ~ 2500mm. The direction of ocean current changes with the alternation of monsoon. When the southeast monsoon prevails, the current flows to the west (southwest). This is the main current direction, which is called Timor Sea Current. When the northwest monsoon prevails, the ocean current flows from west to east. Although there are seasonal southeast and northwest monsoons, the main current that appears all year round is the Timor current flowing to the southwest, with a velocity of 0.8 ~ 1.6 km/h (0.5 ~ 1 mile). Earthquake News According to China Seismological Network, on May 6, 2007, at 03: 06: 34.6 Taipei time, an earthquake of magnitude 4.9 occurred in the Timor Sea (7.4 degrees north latitude, 0/28.55 degrees east longitude). On May 9th, 20 10, the biological curious photographer photographed the wonders of flying fish swimming on the water surface in Timor Sea. Photographer Lu Se Bailly was lucky enough to take a picture of a flying fish swimming on the surface of Timor Sea. And the ripple of flying fish is like a zipper.