The location of the Gulf of Carpentaria. It covers a water area of about 300,000 km2 (120,000 sq mi).The Gulf of Carpentaria from an 1859 Dutch mapThe Gulf of Carpentaria between Bentinck Island and the Australian continentLoading ore from McArthur River zinc mine at Bing Bong Loading Facility, 2011Gulf of Carpentaria from MODISKarumba Beach, Karumba, QueenslandMelbidir II anchored off Karumba near the mouth of the Norman River
The Gulf of Carpentaria (/kɑːrpənˈtɛəriə/) is a sea off the northern coast of Australia. It is enclosed on three sides by northern Australia and bounded on the north by the eastern Arafura Sea, which separates Australia and New Guinea. The northern boundary is generally defined as a line from Slade Point, Queensland (the northwestern corner of Cape York Peninsula) in the northeast, to Cape Arnhem on the Gove Peninsula, Northern Territory (the easternmost point of Arnhem Land) in the west.
At its mouth, the Gulf is 590 km (370 mi) wide, and further south, 675 km (420 mi). The north-south length exceeds 700 km (430 mi). It covers a water area of about 300,000 km2 (120,000 sq mi). The general depth is between 55 and 66 metres (30 and 36 fathoms) and does not exceed 82 metres (45 fathoms).[1] The tidal range in the Gulf of Carpentaria is between two and three metres (6.5 and 10 ft).[2] The Gulf and adjacent Sahul Shelf were dry land at the peak of the last ice age 18,000 years ago when global sea level was around 120 m (390 ft) below its present position. At that time a large, shallow lake occupied the centre of what is now the Gulf.[3] The Gulf hosts a submerged coral reef province that was only recognised in 2004.[4]
^"Sector 1: North Coast of Australia – Gulf of Carpentaria". Sailing Directions (enroute).: North, west, and south coasts of Australia. National Imagery and Mapping Agency. 2001. p. 3. Retrieved 6 October 2020. or Sector 1: North Coast of Australia – Gulf of Carpentaria
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^Torgersen, T., Hutchinson, M.F., Searle, D.E., Nix, H.A., 1983. General bathymetry of the Gulf of Carpentaria and the Quaternary physiography of Lake Carpentaria. Palaeogeogr., Palaeoclimatol., Palaeoecol. 41, 207-225
^Harris, P.T., Heap, A.D., Marshall, J.F., McCulloch, M.T., 2008. A new coral reef province in the Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia: colonisation, growth and submergence during the early Holocene. Marine Geology 251, 85-97.
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