NOUN
- a part of the western Pacific Ocean to the north of Australia and to the south of New Guinea and the eastern islands of Indonesia
How To Use Arafura Sea In A Sentence
- Macassans crossed the Arafura Sea each December in a fleet of small wooden vessels, called praus, and set up camp on beaches, particularly on islands in the Gulf of Carpentaria and in Arnhem Land.
- An island group of eastern Indonesia, part of the Moluccas in the Arafura Sea southwest of New Guinea. The islands were discovered by the Dutch and colonized by them after '23.
