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Spratly Islands dispute
Spratly Islands dispute: overlapping sovereignty claims by China, Taiwan, Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Brunei over South China Sea reefs; 2016 arbitral ruling rejected China's nine-dash line; marked by island-building and coastguard incidents.
Sulu Sea
The Sulu Sea is a small, deep marginal sea of the western Pacific, lying between the Philippine islands of Palawan, Panay, Negros, and Mindanao and northeastern Borneo.
Tasman Sea
Tasman Sea: marginal sea of the South Pacific between Australia and New Zealand, about 2,300,000 km², named for Abel Tasman. Formed by seafloor spreading 60–80 Ma; dominated by the East Australian Current and increasingly by marine heatwaves.
Timor Gap
The Timor Gap is an unbounded Timor Sea seabed area between points A12 and A16 of the 1972 Australia-Indonesia boundary, later governed by the 1989 Timor Gap Treaty, the 2002 Timor Sea Treaty, and the 2018 Maritime Boundary Treaty.
Timor Sea
The Timor Sea lies between Timor Island and northwestern Australia between the Indian Ocean and the Banda and Arafura Seas. Known for the Timor Gap boundary dispute, the JPDA, and the Greater Sunrise gas field.
Visayan Sea
Visayan Sea: shallow inland sea (5,184 km², max depth 150 m) in the central Philippines bounded by Masbate, Cebu, Negros, and Panay; major sardine, herring, and mackerel fishing ground with a November 15 to February 15 closed season under FAO 167.
West Philippine Sea
West Philippine Sea (Kanlurang Dagat ng Pilipinas): Philippine government name, set by Administrative Order No. 29 of 5 September 2012, for western maritime areas including the Luzon Sea, Kalayaan Island Group, and Bajo de Masinloc, upheld by the 2016 arbitral award.
Yellow Sea
The Yellow Sea (黄海, 황해) is a shallow semi-enclosed shelf sea between China and the Korean Peninsula, named for Yellow River sediment, macro-tidal, home to the Yellow Sea Cold Water Mass, and warming under climate change.