Dampier Strait
Dampier Strait is a strait in the Indonesian province of Southwest Papua that separates the Raja Ampat islands of Waigeo and Batanta. It is named after British navigator William Dampier.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Lord Mountbatten, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Strait
- Description: strait in Indonesia
- Also known as: “Selat Dampit”, “Straat Dampier”, “Straat Gĕmien”, and “Wai”
Dampier Strait
- Categories: sound and body of water
- Location: Southwest Papua, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Azerbaijani to Swedish—“Dampier Strait” goes by many names.
- Azerbaijani: “Dampir boğazı (İndoneziya)”
- Azerbaijani: “Dampir boğazı”
- Basque: “Dampier itsasartea”
- Cebuano: “Selat Dampier”
- Chinese: “丹皮尔海峡”
- Chinese: “丹皮爾海峽”
- Dutch: “Dampier Strait”
- German: “Dampierstraße”
- Iloko: “Lingsat Dampier”
- Indonesian: “Selat Augusta”
- Indonesian: “Selat Dampi”
- Indonesian: “Selat Dampier”
- Indonesian: “Selat Dampir”
- Italian: “Stretto di Dampier”
- Japanese: “ダンピア海峡 (インドネシア)”
- Lithuanian: “Dampiro sąsiauris (Indonezija)”
- Lithuanian: “Dampiro sąsiauris”
- Portuguese: “Estreito de Dampier”
- Russian: “Дампир (Индонезия)”
- Russian: “Дампир”
- Russian: “Демпиров пролив”
- Spanish: “Estrecho de Dampier”
- Swedish: “Selat Dampier”
- “Dampi”
- “Dampier”
- “Dampir”
- “Selat Dampier”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Dampier Strait”. Photo: Lord Mountbatten, CC BY-SA 4.0.