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Gulf of Carpentaria

The Gulf of Carpentaria is a off the northern coast of . It is enclosed on three sides by northern Australia and bounded on the north by the eastern Arafura Sea, which separates Australia and .
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  • Type: Bay
  • Description: large, shallow sea enclosed on three sides by northern Australia and bounded on the north by the Arafura Sea
  • Also known as: “Gulf of Carpenteria”

Gulf of Carpentaria

Latitude
-14.03464° or 14° 2′ 5″ south
Longitude
138.97528° or 138° 58′ 31″ east
Open location code
5QQWXX8G+44
Open­Street­Map ID
node 304938661
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­bay
Geo­Names ID
2074837
Wiki­data ID
Q180844
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Satellite Map

Discover Gulf of Carpentaria from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Gulf of Carpentaria” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Golf van Carpentaria”
  • Arabic: “خليج كاربنتاريا”
  • Arabic: “خليج كاربينتاريا”
  • Armenian: “Կարպենտարիա”
  • Asturian: “Golfu de Carpentaria”
  • Azerbaijani: “Karpentariya körfəzi”
  • Bashkir: “Карпентария ҡултығы”
  • Basque: “Carpentaria golkoa”
  • Belarusian: “Заліў Карпентарыя”
  • Belarusian: “Карпентарыя”
  • Belarusian: “Карпэнтарыя”
  • Bengali: “কারপেন্টারিয়া উপসাগর”
  • Bosnian: “Karpentarijski zaliv”
  • Breton: “Pleg-mor Carpentaria”
  • Bulgarian: “Залива Карпентария”
  • Bulgarian: “Карпентария”
  • Catalan: “golf de Carpentària”
  • Catalan: “Golf de Carpentària”
  • Cebuano: “Gulf of Carpentaria”
  • Central Kurdish: “کەنداوی کارپێنتاریا”
  • Chinese: “卡奔塔利亚湾”
  • Chinese: “卡奔塔利亞灣”
  • Chinese: “卡奔塔尼亚湾”
  • Chinese: “喀本塔利亞灣”
  • Chinese: “澳北湾”
  • Croatian: “Carpentaria”
  • Czech: “Carpentarský záliv”
  • Danish: “Carpentaria Bugt”
  • Danish: “Carpentariabugten”
  • Danish: “Gulf of Carpentaria”
  • Dutch: “Golf van Carpentaria”
  • Esperanto: “Golfo de Karpentario”
  • Esperanto: “Golfo Karpentario”
  • Esperanto: “Karpentaria Golfo”
  • Esperanto: “Karpentaria-Golfo”
  • Estonian: “Carpentaria laht”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Carpentaria ke khaarri”
  • Finnish: “Carpentarianlahti”
  • French: “Golfe de Carpentaria”
  • French: “golfe de Carpentarie”
  • French: “Golfe de Carpentarie”
  • Galician: “Golfo de Carpentaria”
  • Georgian: “კარპენტარია”
  • Georgian: “კარპენტარიის ყურე”
  • German: “Carpentaria Golf”
  • German: “Carpentariagolf”
  • German: “Golf von Carpentaria”
  • German: “Gulf of Carpentaria”
  • Greek: “Κόλπος της Καρπεντάρια”
  • Hebrew: “מפרץ קרפנטאריה”
  • Hebrew: “מפרץ קרפנטריה”
  • Hindi: “कारपेंटरिया की खाड़ी”
  • Hindi: “कार्पेन्टारिया की खाड़ी”
  • Hungarian: “Carpentaria-öböl”
  • Icelandic: “Carpentariaflói”
  • Indonesian: “Teluk Carpentaria”
  • Italian: “golfo di Carpentaria”
  • Italian: “Golfo di Carpentaria”
  • Japanese: “カーペンタリア湾”
  • Kazakh: “Karpentarïya şığanağı”
  • Kazakh: “Карпентария шығанағы”
  • Kazakh: “كارپەنتارىييا شىعاناعى”
  • Kirghiz: “Карпентария”
  • Korean: “카펀테리아 만”
  • Korean: “카펀테리아만”
  • Latin: “Mare Lanthidol”
  • Latin: “Sinus Carpentariae”
  • Latvian: “Karpentārija līcis”
  • Literary Chinese: “Carpentaria Bay”
  • Literary Chinese: “Gulf of Carpentaria”
  • Literary Chinese: “Карпентария”
  • Literary Chinese: “卡奔塔利亚”
  • Literary Chinese: “卡奔塔利亞灣”
  • Literary Chinese: “卡奔塔尼亞灣”
  • Literary Chinese: “卡奔達尼亞灣”
  • Literary Chinese: “卡本塔里亚湾”
  • Lithuanian: “Karpentarijos įlanka”
  • Macedonian: “Карпентариски Залив”
  • Malay: “Teluk Carpentaria”
  • Mazanderani: “کارپنتاریا دریامونا”
  • Mingrelian: “კარპენტარია”
  • Nepali: “कार्पेन्टारियाको खाडी”
  • Northern Frisian: “Golf faan Carpentaria”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Carpentariabukta”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Carpentariabukten”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Carpentariagulfen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Carpentariaviken”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Gulf of Carpentaria”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Carpentariabukta”
  • Norwegian: “Carpentariabukta”
  • Norwegian: “Carpentariabukten”
  • Panjabi: “ਕਾਰਪੈਂਟਰੀਆ ਦੀ ਖਾੜੀ”
  • Persian: “خلیج عقبه”
  • Persian: “خلیج کارپنتاریا”
  • Polish: “Karpentaria”
  • Polish: “Zatoka Carpentaria”
  • Polish: “Zatoka Karpentaria”
  • Portuguese: “Golfo da Carpentária”
  • Portuguese: “Golfo de Carpentária”
  • Romanian: “Golful Carpentaria”
  • Russian: “Залив Карпентария”
  • Russian: “Карпентария залив”
  • Russian: “Карпентария”
  • Scots: “Gulf o Carpentaria”
  • Serbian: “Gulf of Carpentaria”
  • Serbian: “Karpentarijski zaliv”
  • Serbian: “Залив Царпентариа”
  • Serbian: “Карпентарија залив”
  • Serbian: “Карпентаријски залив”
  • Serbian: “Карпентеријски залив”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Carpentarijski zaliv”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Karpentarijski zaliv”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Karpenterijski zaliv”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Zaliv Carpentaria”
  • Slovak: “Karpentársky záliv”
  • Slovenian: “Karpentarijski zaliv”
  • Spanish: “Golfo de Carpentaria”
  • Swahili: “Ghuba ya Carpentaria”
  • Swedish: “Carpentariabukten”
  • Swedish: “Carpentariaviken”
  • Tamil: “கார்பெண்டாரியா வளைகுடா”
  • Tamil: “கார்ப்பெண்டாரியா குடா”
  • Thai: “อ่าวคาร์เพนทาเรีย”
  • Thai: “อ่าวคาร์เพนแทเรีย”
  • Turkish: “Carpentaria Körfezi”
  • Ukrainian: “Затока Карпентарія”
  • Ukrainian: “Карпентарія”
  • Urdu: “خلیج کارپنتاریا”
  • Uzbek: “Karpentariya qo‘ltig‘i”
  • Uzbek: “Karpentariya Qo‘ltig‘i”
  • Uzbek: “Karpentariya qo’ltig’i”
  • Uzbek: “Karpentariya Qo’ltig’i”
  • Uzbek: “Karpentariya qo`ltig`i”
  • Uzbek: “Karpentariya Qo`ltig`i”
  • Uzbek: “Karpentariya qoʻltigʻi”
  • Uzbek: “Karpentariya Qoʻltigʻi”
  • Vietnamese: “Vịnh Carpentaria”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Golpo han Carpentaria”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Gulf of Carpentaria”
  • Welsh: “Gwlff Carpentaria”
  • Western Frisian: “Golf fan Carpentaria”
  • Western Frisian: “Golf fan Karpentaria”
  • Western Panjabi: “کارپینٹیریا دی کھاڑی”
  • Wu Chinese: “卡奔塔利亞灣”
  • Wu Chinese: “卡彭特亚海湾”
  • Wu Chinese: “卡本塔里亚湾”
  • Wu Chinese: “卡本特里亚湾”
  • Yue Chinese: “卡奔塔利亞灣”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Gulf of Carpentaria”. Photo: NASA, Public domain.