Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A shallow part of the western Pacific Ocean between the Timor and Coral Seas, separating New Guinea from Australia.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a part of the western Pacific Ocean to the north of Australia and to the south of New Guinea and the eastern islands of Indonesia
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Examples
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Fifth Air Force, might not fall screaming from the sky into the Arafura Sea.
Creatures: A Memoir Terence Cannon 2008
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But he swooped home from the war and rushed again out into the air in his newspaper's blue-and-white Cessna, floating to Midwest towns smaller than the dot of Banda Island in the Arafura Sea, airstrips shorter than they carved from the New Guinea jungle, this time to hunt down interviews, local color, stories of American life.
Creatures: A Memoir Terence Cannon 2008
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It stretches for over 150 kilometers (km), from the central cordillera mountains in the north to the Arafura Sea in the south.
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The Northern Prawn in the Arafura Sea is almost fully exploited.
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The largest of these rivers empty into the shallow Arafura Sea, which separates the island of New Guinea from Australia.
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This ecoregion also extends across the Arafura Sea to Australia, which was outside the region of analysis.
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Fifth Air Force, might not fall screaming from the sky into the Arafura Sea.
Creatures: A Memoir 2008
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For a map of the eastern Banda Sea and the northern Arafura Sea, indicating geomorphology and isobaths, see Zijlstra and Baars, 1990, page 55.
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But he swooped home from the war and rushed again out into the air in his newspaper's blue-and-white Cessna, floating to Midwest towns smaller than the dot of Banda Island in the Arafura Sea, airstrips shorter than they carved from the New Guinea jungle, this time to hunt down interviews, local color, stories of American life.
Creatures: A Memoir 2008
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Commercial fisheries are based on the Northern Prawn (Arafura Sea), mud crab, barramundi, salmon, shark, Spanish mackerel, as well as snappers and reef fish.
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