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unusual facts about Timor Sea



Australian Marine Oil Spill Centre

In 2009, AMOSC responded to the Montara oil spill in the Timor Sea by mobilising aircraft and dispersant for aerial spraying.

Psalidopus

huxleyi occurs on continental and insular slopes across the Indian Ocean, including the Laccadive Sea, off southern India, the Andaman Sea and the Timor Sea, as well as in the western Pacific Ocean from southern Japan to the Philippines, the Sulu Sea, and the Celebes Sea.

Vickers Vellore

After spares were sent out the flight continued until, over the Timor Sea and close to Australia, the engine began to malfunction again and the Vellore was wrecked in trees near the Cape Don lighthouse at the western extremity of the Cobourg Peninsula on the Australian mainland.


see also

Sahul

Sahul Shelf, part of the continental shelf off the northern Australian coast, under the Arafura Sea and the Timor Sea