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Arafura Sea

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Arafura Sea (ärəf`rə), shallow part of the Pacific Ocean, between the Timor and Coral seas, separating Australia from New Guinea. It contains several islands of Indonesia. The Torres Strait to the east is a treacherous passage. See Carpentaria, Gulf of Carpentaria, Gulf of (kärpəntâr`ēə)
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Arafura Sea
a part of the W Pacific Ocean, between N Australia and SW New Guinea


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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.
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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