Wide Bay
Wide Bay is a bay located to the south of Rabaul, on the southern coast of Gazelle Peninsula of New Britain. During the final stages of World War II, after landing at Jacquinot Bay Australian forces then established a defensive line across the island between…
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.- Type: Bay
- Description: bay in Papua New Guinea
- Also known as: “Wide Bay, Papua New Guinea”
Wide Bay
- Category: body of water
- Location: East New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea, Oceania
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Latitude
-5.11215° or 5° 6′ 44″ south
Longitude
152.10365° or 152° 6′ 13″ east
Open location code
6R6JV4Q3+4F
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=bay
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Spanish—“Wide Bay” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Wide Bay”
- French: “baie de Wide”
- French: “Baie de Wide”
- German: “Wide Bay”
- Japanese: “ワイド湾”
- Spanish: “Wide Bay”
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