Sea of Crete

The Sea of Crete Crete, east of a islands of Kythera together with Antikythera, south of the Cyclades, & west of the Dodecanese islands of Rhodes, Karpathos and Kassos. The bounding sea to the west is the Ionian Sea. To the northwest is the Myrtoan Sea, a subdivision of the Mediterranean Sea that lies between the Cyclades and Peloponnese. To the east-southeast is the rest of the Mediterranean Sea, sometimes credited as the Levantine Sea. Across the island of Crete, to the opposite shore of it begins the Libyan Sea. Ferry routes to and from Piraeus and Heraklion, as well as the southern islands of the Aegean and the Dodecanese, run in this area.

Just off the coastline of Northeastern Crete the sea reaches a maximum depth of nearly 3,293 m 10,000 ft.[] Other direction maps show a maximum depth of 2,591 m 8,500 ft.