Yos Sudarso Bay
Yos Sudarso Bay, known as Humboldt Bay from 1827 to 1968, is a small bay on the north coast of New Guinea, about 50 kilometers west of the border between Indonesia's province of Papua and the country of Papua New Guinea.Photo: Michael Cookson, Public domain.
- Type: Bay
- Description: bay in Indonesia
- Also known as: “Humboldt-baai”, “Humbolt Bay”, “Teluk Humboldt”, and “Teluk Jos Sudarso”
- Historically known as: “Humboldt Bay”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Youtefa Bridge.
Youtefa Bridge
Bridge
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Youtefa Bridge is a steel arch type bridge over Youtefa Bay, Jayapura, Papua, Indonesia that connects Holtekamp in Muara Tami District with Hamadi in Jayapura Selatan District.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Jayapura and Trikora.
Jayapura
Photo: Bertilvidet, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Jayapura is the capital and largest city in Papua, with a population of 315,000 people in 2014. The city has also been known in the past as Hollandia, Kota Baru and even Sukarnopura.
Trikora
Trikora is the collective name of the northeastern beaches on Bintan, Indonesia. Trikora is actually quite a long stretch of separate beaches, with beaches numbered from south to north as one to four.
Yos Sudarso Bay
- Category: body of water
- Location: Special Region of Papua, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-2.5875° or 2° 35′ 15″ southLongitude
140.7445° or 140° 44′ 40″ eastOpen location code
6R92CP6V+XROpenStreetMap ID
node 304954588OpenStreetMap feature
natural=bayGeoNames ID
2082359Wikidata ID
Q1505856
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Yos Sudarso Bay” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “خليج يوس سودارسو”
- Balinese: “Celuk Yos Sudarso”
- Cebuano: “Teluk Yos Sudarso”
- Chinese: “約斯蘇達索灣”
- Chinese: “约斯苏达索湾”
- Czech: “Humboldtova zátoka”
- French: “baie Yos Sudarso”
- French: “Baie Yos Sudarso”
- German: “Humboldt Bay”
- German: “Humboldt-Bai”
- German: “Humboldtbai”
- German: “Yos Sudarso Bay”
- German: “Yos-Sudarso-Bucht”
- Hebrew: “מפרץ יוס סודרסו”
- Indonesian: “Teluk Yos Sudarso”
- Japanese: “フルボント湾”
- Japanese: “ヨス・スダルソ湾”
- Spanish: “Bahia Yos Sudarso”
- Spanish: “Bahía Yos Sudarso”
- Spanish: “Teluk Yos Sudarso”
- Swedish: “Teluk Yos Sudarso”
- Vietnamese: “Vịnh Yos Sudarso”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Enggros and Tobati.
Notable Places Nearby
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