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Molucca Sea depth map

Sea: average depth about 2,005 m, deepest 4,854 m (GEBCO_2026 grid).

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Sea level todayDrag the slider to lower the sea and see the land that would appear.

Sea level in metres below today’s. A simple bathtub model: it lowers the sea everywhere by the same amount and does not simulate how the water would really drain.

Key

Sea depth

  • Deeper than 6,000 m
  • 4,000 to 6,000 m
  • 2,000 to 4,000 m
  • 1,000 to 2,000 m
  • 200 to 1,000 m
  • Shallower than 200 m (the continental shelf)

Land height

  • Land up to 500 m
  • 500 to 2,000 m
  • Above 2,000 m

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  • Seabed exposed when the sea is lowered A dashed white line marks today’s coast.

How to read the map. Darker blue is deeper water. Tap anywhere to see how deep the sea is there, or how high the land is, and the nearest named undersea feature. Depths come from the GEBCO_2026 grid, which in most of the deep ocean is predicted from satellite measurements of the sea surface rather than surveyed by ship, and the map’s tiles are coarser than the grid, so narrow trenches read shallower on the map than their true depth. Not for navigation.

Molucca Sea at a glance

  • 2,005 maverage depth
  • 2,108 mmedian depth
  • 4,854 mmaximum depth
  • 214,780 km²water area

Molucca Sea is a sea. Inside its outline the GEBCO grid has about 214,780 km² of water, with an average depth of about 2,005 m (the middle value is 2,108 m) and a maximum of 4,854 m, found at 1.05° S, 126.91° E.

Open the map at the deepest cell and tap to read the depth.

How deep is each part of the Molucca Sea?

The bar splits the Molucca Sea's water by depth. Each colour is a depth band, and the shares add up to 100%.

  • 0 to 200 m: 6.4%
  • 200 to 1,000 m: 9.7%
  • 1,000 to 4,000 m: 82.6%
  • 4,000 to 6,000 m: 1.3%
  • below 6,000 m: 0%

Named features near the deepest point: Sangihe Trench (610 km), Submarine 1922 (635 km), Nieuwerkerk (665 km), Yersey (792 km).

The Molucca Sea if sea level dropped

The slider on the map lowers the sea in steps. This table shows how much of the Molucca Sea's water would be land at each step.

Sea level lowered byBecomes landShare of its water
10 m1,370 km²0.6%
20 m2,815 km²1.3%
50 m5,634 km²2.6%
80 m7,904 km²3.7%
120 m10,191 km²4.7%
200 m13,813 km²6.4%
500 m23,684 km²11%
1,000 m34,570 km²16.1%
2,000 m95,314 km²44.4%
3,000 m186,572 km²86.9%
4,000 m212,032 km²98.7%
6,000 m214,780 km²100%

A simple bathtub model: it lowers the sea everywhere by the same amount and does not simulate how water would really drain.

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Frequently asked questions

How deep is the Molucca Sea?

On average about 2,005 m in the GEBCO grid (the middle value is 2,108 m). The deepest cell inside its outline is 4,854 m, at 1.05° S, 126.91° E.

How big is the Molucca Sea?

About 214,780 km² of water inside its Natural Earth outline, counted from the grid cells that are below sea level.

How much of the Molucca Sea would be land if sea level dropped?

With the sea 20 m lower, about 2,815 km² (1.3%) of its water would be land. At 6,000 m lower, 100% would be. This is a simple bathtub model that lowers the sea evenly everywhere.

Data: depths from the GEBCO_2026 grid, statistics worked out inside the Natural Earth outline of the sea. See data sources and licences. The GEBCO Grid should NOT be used for navigation or for any other purpose involving safety at sea.

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