Banda Sea

The Banda Sea is a marginal sea of the Pacific Ocean, in the middle of the Indonesian archipelago.

It extends about 1,200 kilometers from west to east and about 600 kilometers from north to south. Approximate geographic location of the Banda Sea: 122 ° to 132 ° east longitude and 2 ° to 8 ° south latitude.

The deep-sea basins of the Banda Sea is up to 5800 meters deep. The lowest point lies in the eastern Banda Sea with the Weber Deep ( 7440 meters).

The Banda Sea is surrounded by the Great Sunda Islands in the west, the Banda arc of the Lesser Sunda Islands and the Moluccas in the south to the north and east. She goes to the north in the Molukkensee over, in the northeast in the Ceram Sea, to the east in the Arafura Sea, to the south in the Timor Sea to the southwest in the Savu Sea, and to the west in the Floressee.

Larger islands at the edges of the Banda Sea are Sulawesi Buton and Muna in the West, Buru, Seram and Yamdena, Timor, Flores and Wetar in the south. Although the Banda thousands rocky islands edged and ships must navigate with caution there, it's almost free island in its center; goes to the Banda Islands.

The Timorese call the quiet Banda Tasi Feto - that woman sea, in contrast to the harsh Timor Sea, the Tasi -Mane, the men sea.

The Banda Sea is regularly shaken by earthquakes - are called to the 1938, 2005, 2006 and 2009.

History

The Banda Sea has been studied in detail hydrologically during the Dutch Siboga Expedition 1899-1900.

Before the First World War, the Dutch KPM offered many ferry connections between the islands of the Banda Sea and adjacent areas. The North German Lloyd ran a line of Port William in German New Guinea on Banda and Ambon to Makassar.