Trivia: The body of water separating Australia and New Zealand is nicknamed what?
The Great Bight
The Pond
The Ditch
The Kiwi
The correct answer is The Ditch
So why is this answer correct? : The Tasman Sea spans 900,000 square miles and separates the island nations of Australia and New Zealand in the southwest Pacific. The sea lies just south of the Coral Sea and connects with the Bass Strait, which separates Australia from Tasmania and leads to the Indian Ocean. Both Australians and Kiwis colloquially refer to the sea as “the ditch,” just as Brits and Americans refer to the Atlantic as “the pond.”