Gulf of Piran Gulf of Piran The Gulf of Piran or Piran Bay (, or, recently, , ) is located in the northern part of the Adriatic Sea, and is a part of the southernmost tip of the Gulf of Trieste. It was named after the town of Piran, and its shores are shared by Croatia and Slovenia. It is delimited by a line connecting Cape Savudrija ("Savudrijski rt") in the south to the Cape Madona ("Rt Madona") in the north and measures around . Since the 1990s, the name Bay of Savudrija ("Savudrijska vala") has also been used in Croatia. On the
Gulf of Carpentaria Gulf of Carpentaria The Gulf of Carpentaria () is a large, shallow sea enclosed on three sides by northern Australia and bounded on the north by the Arafura Sea (the body of water that lies between Australia and New Guinea). The northern boundary is generally defined as a line from Slade Point, Queensland (the northwestern corner of Cape York Peninsula) in the northeast, to Cape Arnhem, Northern Territory (the easternmost point of Arnhem Land) in the west. At its mouth, the Gulf is 590 km wide, and further south, 675 km. The north-south length exceeds 700 km. It covers a