Tasman Sea

As Tasman Tasman Sea or the water area between Australia and New Zealand is called. It is a south-western part of the South Pacific. The name honors the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman, who went 1642/1643 on an expedition while New Zealand and Tasmania discovered. Around 1770, the British explorer James Cook explored the area during his first voyage of discovery.

For Tasman expects the International Hydrographic Organization, the areas to the east of the Australian states of New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania. The further north Queensland located close to the Coral Sea. The border of the states also serves as a demarcation of these two seas.

The Tasman Sea is 2800 km long and up to 2000 km wide, the surface area is 2.331 million km ². Your greatest depth reaching 5,200 m in the Tasman Basin.

Islands

The Tasman Sea contains a number of island groups, which are far remote from the coastal islands of New Zealand and Australia:

  • Ball's Pyramid
  • Middleton Reef and Elizabeth Reef ( each with a small island on the reef ) are also in the north of the Tasmanian Sea.
  • Lord Howe Island and associated islands
  • Norfolk Island in the far north, on the border with Coral Sea

These islands are all part of Australia.

Crossing

As the first man made ​​it 1977 Colin Quincey to traverse with a rowing boat the Tasman Sea from New Zealand to Tasmania. His son Shaun Quincey drove the first from Tasmania to New Zealand in 2010. The Australian Andrew McAuley has been his attempt to travel with a sea kayak from Tasmania to New Zealand in 2007, lost.

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