Editing Bass Strait (section)

==Extent==
The [[International Hydrographic Organization]] defines the limits of Bass Strait as follows:<ref name=iho>{{cite web |url=https://iho.int/uploads/user/pubs/standards/s-23/S-23_Ed3_1953_EN.pdf |title=Limits of Oceans and Seas, 3rd edition |year=1953 |publisher=International Hydrographic Organization |access-date=28 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111008191433/http://www.iho.int/iho_pubs/standard/S-23/S-23_Ed3_1953_EN.pdf |archive-date=8 October 2011 }}</ref>

:''On the west.'' The eastern limit of the [[Great Australian Bight]] [being a line from [[Cape Otway]], Australia, to [[King Island (Tasmania)|King Island]] and thence to [[Cape Grim]], the northwest extreme of Tasmania<nowiki>]</nowiki>.

:''On the east.'' The western limit of the [[Tasman Sea]] between [[Gabo Island]] and Eddystone Point [being a line from Gabo Island (near [[Cape Howe]], 37°30'S) to the northeast point of East Sister Island (148°E) thence along the [[148th meridian east|148th meridian]] to [[Flinders Island]]; beyond this Island a line running to the Eastward of the Vansittart Shoals to [Cape] [[Cape Barren Island|Barren Island]], and from Cape Barren (the easternmost point of [Cape] Barren Island) to Eddystone Point (41°S) [in Tasmania].
[[File:Arthur Long monument.jpg|thumb|190px|Monument commemorating the first flight across the Bass Strait, by [[Arthur Leonard Long]] in 1919. Note the spelling "{{Smallcaps|Straits}}".]]

===Differing views of location and context===
Some authorities consider the strait to be part of the Pacific Ocean<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.marineregions.org/gazetteer.php?p=details&id=4366 | title=Marine Gazetteer Placedetails | access-date=29 May 2013 | publisher=VLIZ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160319160708/http://www.marineregions.org/gazetteer.php?p=details&id=4366 | archive-date=19 March 2016 | url-status=dead }}</ref> as in the never-approved 2002 IHO ''Limits of Oceans and Seas'' draft. In the currently in-force IHO 1953 draft, it is instead associated with the Great Australian Bight; the Bight is numbered 62, while the Bass Strait is designated 62-A.<ref name=iho/>

The [[Australian Hydrographic Service]] does not consider it to be part of its expanded definition of the [[Southern Ocean]], but rather states that it lies with the Tasman Sea.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.hydro.gov.au/factsheets/WFS_Names_and_Limits_of_Oceans_and_Seas_Around_Australia.pdf | title=AHS – AA609582 | publisher=The Australian Hydrographic Service | date=5 July 2012 | access-date=29 May 2013 | archive-date=15 May 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130515180605/http://www.hydro.gov.au/factsheets/WFS_Names_and_Limits_of_Oceans_and_Seas_Around_Australia.pdf | url-status=dead }}</ref> The strait between the [[Furneaux Islands]] and Tasmania is [[Banks Strait]], a subdivision of Bass Strait.