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Arafura Sea
The Arafura Sea is a sea of the Pacific Ocean, covering 1,025,736 km² — the #26 largest of the world's 101 named ocean and sea areas. Here's how it ranks, what borders it, and the live conditions at its centre right now.
Boundaries & area: Marine Regions (VLIZ), IHO Sea Areas v3 — from the IHO “Limits of Oceans & Seas” (S-23). MRGID 4347.
Live from Open-Meteo Marine at -10.5°, 137.0° (the sea's representative centre). A near-real-time model estimate.
How deep is the Arafura Sea?
The IHO sea-area dataset that draws this map records each sea's name, boundary and surface area — not its depth, which varies enormously from the shallow shelf at its edges to its deepest trench. Rather than quote a single misleading number, we measure the water column directly: the live ocean currents trace its motion, and the deep-ocean layers (Argo floats and the descend-here column, coming to the Ocean canvas) read real temperature and depth as you go down.
SEE IT ON THE MAP
See the Arafura Sea coloured on the live oceans-&-seas map.