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Fishing is an important economic activity in the Java Sea. Over 3,000 species of marine life are found in the area. A number of national parks exist in the area such as Karimunjawa. The Thousand Islands are located north of the national capital Jakarta, and are the city's only regency. The area around the Java Sea is also a popular tourist ...
The rise of sea level during a meltwater pulse 14,600 to 14,300 years Before Present was as much as 16 meters within 300 years. [6] Present sea levels submerge a number of Pleistocene paleo river systems that drained much of Sundaland during the last glacial maximum 18,000 to 20,000 years ago. [7] To the east of the Sunda Shelf is the Sahul Shelf.
The Eastern limits of the Philippine Sea [P 1] and Japan Sea [P 2] and the Southeastern limit of the Sea of Okhotsk. [P 3] On the North. The Southern limits of the Bering Sea [P 4] and the Gulf of Alaska. [P 5] On the East. The Western limit of Coastal waters of Southeast Alaska and Br. Columbia, [P 6] and the Southern limit of the Gulf of ...
The Northeastern limit of the Eastern China Sea [From Nomo Saki (32°35′ N) in Kyusyu to the South point of Hukae Sima and on through this island to Ose Saki (Cape Goto) and to Hunan Kan, the South point of Saisyu To (Quelpart), through this island to its Western extreme and thence along the parallel of 33°17′ North to the mainland] and ...
This includes but is not limited to marginal seas, and this is the definition used for inclusion in this list. A marginal sea is a division of an ocean, partially enclosed by islands, archipelagos, or peninsulas, adjacent to or widely open to the open ocean at the surface, and/or bounded by submarine ridges on the sea floor. [7] The World Ocean.
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It is 3,200 kilometres (2,000 mi) long with a maximum depth of 7,290 metres (23,920 feet). [2] Its maximum depth is the deepest point in the Indian Ocean . The trench stretches from the Lesser Sunda Islands past Java , around the southern coast of Sumatra to the Andaman Islands , and forms the boundary between the Indo-Australian plate and ...
To the Java Sea: The Diary, Letters and Papers of Henry E. Eccles "CombinedFleet.com: Tabular history of Japanese ships involved in the battle". Archived from the original on 15 May 2006; Vincent P. O'Hara. "Battle of the Java Sea: 27 February 1942 by Vincent P. O'Hara". Archived from the original on 12 April 2006