Meanings
- A large sea bordering the Pacific Ocean near Indonesia and surrounded by many islands, such as Timor and the Banda Islands.
The Banda Sea is an interarc basin composed of a series of east-west-trending continental and volcanic ridges separated by anomalously deep oceanic basins.
2003, Yildirim Dilek, Paul T. Robinson, Ophiolites in Earth History, Geological Society of London, →ISBN, page 4872 more examples
Two main theories exist regarding the origin of the Banda Sea: 1) old oceanic crust trapped by the bending of the Banda Arc or specifically, trapped Mesozoic lithosphere of Indian Ocean affinities, or 2) an active marginal basin of Cenozoic age.
2013 February 5, Tomas Tomascik, Anmarie J. Mah, Ecology of the Indonesian Seas, Tuttle Publishing, →ISBNAnd he was nowhere. This remote island was in the middle of the Banda Sea. The Banda Sea was surrounded by large islands and hazardous rocks. But the middle of the sea was scattered with thousands of small tropical islands and atolls.
2015 August 4, S. John Dickinson, The Banda Sea Pirates, Booktango, →ISBN
Translations
Czech Bandské moře
- Bandské mořeBanda Sea
French mer de Banda
- mer de BandaBanda Sea
German Bandasee
- BandaseeBanda Sea
Hungarian Banda-tenger
- Banda-tengerBanda Sea
Cite this entry
Banda Sea. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Banda%20Sea
“Banda Sea.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Banda%20Sea. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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