Timor Sea
Americannoun
noun
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They have travelled through Kazakhstan, China, Laos, Thailand and Indonesia, and are now in Dili, East Timor's capital, hoping to find a boat to cross the Timor Sea to Darwin, Australia.
From BBC ● Dec. 18, 2023
The Timor Sea treaty signed in 2006 was scrapped and a replacement that was more generous to East Timor was signed in March last year.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 28, 2019
If Timor-Leste can reach an agreement with Australia on how to divide Greater Sunrise, a gasfield in the Timor Sea between the two countries, then its gas will last another 15 years.
From Economist ● May 19, 2016
Between chopping wood in the Arctic north and fishing in the Timor Sea, he found time to drop in on the inaugural Sydney Sevens last month and enjoyed what he saw from the Australians.
From Reuters ● Mar. 23, 2016
On January 13, arriving in the Timor Sea, Captain Nemo raised the island of that name at longitude 122°.
From Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by F. P. Walter
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