{"id":21566,"date":"2025-10-27T04:40:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T23:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=21566"},"modified":"2025-10-29T10:55:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T05:25:31","slug":"gulf-of-carpentaria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/gulf-of-carpentaria\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the Gulf of Carpentaria?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Gulf of Carpentaria<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a\u00a0shallow rectangular sea on the\u00a0northern coast of Australia and an\u00a0inlet of the eastern\u00a0Arafura Sea (a Pacific Ocean sea separating New Guinea and Australia).<\/li>\n<li>The gulf has an area of 120,000 square miles (310,000 square km) and a maximum depth of 230 feet (70 metres).<\/li>\n<li>It is 590 kilometers wide at the mouth and 675 kilometers wide near the southern coast. It is over 700 kilometers long, from north to south.<\/li>\n<li>The gulf\u00a0covers a continental shelf\u00a0common to both New Guinea and Australia.<\/li>\n<li>A ridge extends across Torres Strait,\u00a0separating the floor of the\u00a0gulf from the Coral Sea to the east.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It is a\u00a0rare modern example of an epicontinental sea (a\u00a0shallow sea on top of a continent), a feature much more common at earlier times in the Earth\u2019s geologic history.<\/li>\n<li>At least 20 rivers empty into the gulf, including the\u00a0Roper, Wilton, Walker, Calvert, Flinders, McArthur, and Norman Rivers.<\/li>\n<li>There are\u00a0several islands in the gulf, with\u00a0Groote Eylandt, being the largest.<\/li>\n<li>The gulf also\u00a0contains fringing reefs and coral colonies.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It\u00a0gained international recognition in the 20th and 21st centuries following the discovery and exploitation of\u00a0several mineral resources, including manganese and bauxite.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure class=\"table\">\n<table class=\"ck-table-resized\">\n<colgroup>\n<col \/>\n<col \/><\/colgroup>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tb-color\" colspan=\"2\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Read More:<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/gulf-of-oman-upsc\/\" target=\"_blank\"><u>Gulf of Oman<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/gulf-of-california\/\" target=\"_blank\"><u>Gulf of California<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/gulf-of-aden\/\" target=\"_blank\"><u>Gulf of Aden<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/gulf-of-mexico\/\" target=\"_blank\"><u>Gulf of Mexico<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/figure>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is a Gulf?<\/h3>\n<p>The Gulf is a portion of the sea that is almost surrounded by land except one narrow opening. Gulfs are formed when a giant rock collapses or when a piece of land sinks. This causes a big indentation in the area, and the water eventually fills it up. Gulfs are also formed through a natural process of erosion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/au.news.yahoo.com\/another-cyclone-alert-northern-australia-041400573.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Another cyclone alert for Northern Australia<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gulf of Carpentaria is a shallow rectangular sea on the northern coast of Australia and an inlet of the eastern Arafura Sea <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":21567,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21566","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}