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: “Carpentaria Bay”, “Carpentaria Bugt”, “Carpentaria Golf”, “Carpentariagolf”, “Carpentariagulfen”, “Golfe de Carpentaria”, “Golfo da Carpentária”, “golfo de Karpentario”, “golfo Karpentario”, “Gulf of Carpenteria”, “Karpentaria”, “Karpentaria golfo”, “Karpentariya qo‘ltig‘i”, “Karpentariya Qo‘ltig‘i”, “Karpentariya qo’ltig’i”, “Karpentariya Qo’ltig’i”, “Karpentariya qo`ltig`i”, “Karpentariya Qo`ltig`i”, “Karpentariya Qoʻltigʻi”, “Karpenterijski zaliv”, “Mare Lanthidol”, “Zaliv Carpentaria”, “Zatoka Carpentaria”, “Залив Карпентария”, “Залив Царпентариа”, “Залива Карпентария”, “Затока Карпентарія”, “Карпентарија залив”, “Карпентария залив”, “Քարպենթարիա”, “מפרץ קרפנטריה”, “خليج كاربينتاريا”, “خلیج عقبه”, “கார்ப்பெண்டாரியா குடா”, “อ่าวคาร์เพนทาเรีย”, “卡奔塔利亚”, “卡奔塔尼亚湾”, “卡奔塔尼亞灣”, “卡奔達尼亞灣”, “卡彭特亚海湾”, “卡本特里亚湾”, “喀本塔利亞灣”, and “澳北湾”

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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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Gulf of Carpentaria” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Golf van Carpentaria”
  • Arabic: “خليج كاربنتاريا”
  • Arabic: “خليج كربنتاريا”
  • 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: “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”
  • Croatian: “Carpentaria”
  • Czech: “Carpentarský záliv”
  • Danish: “Carpentariabugten”
  • Dutch: “Golf van Carpentaria”
  • Esperanto: “Karpentaria Golfo”
  • Esperanto: “Karpentaria-Golfo”
  • Estonian: “Carpentaria laht”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Carpentaria ke khaarri”
  • Finnish: “Carpentarianlahti”
  • French: “golfe de Carpentarie”
  • French: “Golfe de Carpentarie”
  • Galician: “Golfo de Carpentaria”
  • Georgian: “კარპენტარია”
  • Georgian: “კარპენტარიის ყურე”
  • German: “Golf von Carpentaria”
  • Greek: “Κόλπος της Καρπεντάρια”
  • Hebrew: “מפרץ קרפנטאריה”
  • 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: “Sinus Carpentariae”
  • Latvian: “Karpentārija līcis”
  • Literary Chinese: “卡奔塔利亞灣”
  • 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 Nynorsk: “Carpentariabukta”
  • Norwegian: “Carpentariabukta”
  • Norwegian: “Carpentariabukten”
  • Panjabi: “ਕਾਰਪੈਂਟਰੀਆ ਦੀ ਖਾੜੀ”
  • Persian: “خلیج کارپنتاریا”
  • Polish: “Zatoka Karpentaria”
  • Portuguese: “Golfo de Carpentária”
  • Romanian: “Golful Carpentaria”
  • Russian: “Карпентария”
  • Scots: “Gulf o Carpentaria”
  • Serbian: “Karpentarijski zaliv”
  • Serbian: “Карпентаријски залив”
  • Serbian: “Карпентеријски залив”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Carpentarijski zaliv”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Karpentarijski zaliv”
  • Slovak: “Karpentársky záliv”
  • Slovenian: “Karpentarijski zaliv”
  • Spanish: “Golfo de Carpentaria”
  • Swahili: “Ghuba ya Carpentaria”
  • Swedish: “Carpentariaviken”
  • Tamil: “கார்பெண்டாரியா வளைகுடா”
  • Thai: “อ่าวคาร์เพนแทเรีย”
  • Turkish: “Carpentaria Körfezi”
  • Ukrainian: “Карпентарія”
  • Urdu: “خلیج کارپنتاریا”
  • Uzbek: “Karpentariya qoʻltigʻi”
  • Vietnamese: “Vịnh Carpentaria”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Golpo han Carpentaria”
  • Welsh: “Gwlff Carpentaria”
  • Western Frisian: “Golf fan Carpentaria”
  • Western Frisian: “Golf fan Karpentaria”
  • Western Panjabi: “کارپینٹیریا دی کھاڑی”
  • Wu Chinese: “卡本塔里亚湾”
  • Yue Chinese: “卡奔塔利亞灣”

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