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Arafura Sea

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A·ra·fu·ra Sea  (är-fr)
A shallow part of the western Pacific Ocean between the Timor and Coral seas, separating New Guinea from Australia.
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Noun1.Arafura SeaArafura Sea - 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
Pacific, Pacific Ocean - the largest ocean in the world


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Like its sister rivers, the Roper, draining eastward into the Gulf of Carpentiara, and the Mary, which carries the wet season floods north into Van Diemen Gulf and the Arafura Sea, the Daly was closed to commercial fishing in the 1980s to protect the stocks.
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We anchored in the shallow Arafura Sea some dozen miles off the Asmat, which is the most extensive marsh in the world; it is also the last region in which both headhunting and cannibalism are practiced, although now on a moderate scale.
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