Vitiaz Strait
Vitiaz Strait is a strait between New Britain and the Huon Peninsula, northern New Guinea. The Vitiaz Strait was so named by Nicholai Nicholaievich Mikluho-Maklai to commemorate the Russian corvette Vitiaz in which he sailed from October 1870 by way of South America and the Pacific Islands reaching Astrolabe Bay in September 1871.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Vitiaz Strait
- Type: Strait
- Description: strait in Papua New Guinea
- Category: body of water
- Location: Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea, Oceania
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Vietnamese—“Vitiaz Strait” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Estrechu Vitiaz”
- Azerbaijani: “Vityaz boğazı”
- Bulgarian: “Витяз”
- Catalan: “Vitiaz Strait”
- Cebuano: “Vitiaz Strait”
- Chinese: “勇士号海峡”
- Czech: “Vitiazova úžina”
- Dutch: “Straat van Vitiaz”
- Finnish: “Vitiazinsalmi”
- French: “détroit de Vitiaz”
- French: “Détroit de Vitiaz”
- Galician: “Estreito de Vitiaz”
- German: “Vitiaz-Straße”
- Hebrew: “מצר ויטיאז”
- Indonesian: “Selat Vitiaz”
- Italian: “Stretto di Vitiaz”
- Japanese: “ヴィティアス海峡”
- Lithuanian: “Vitiazio sąsiauris”
- Polish: “Cieśnina Witiaz”
- Polish: “Vitiaz Strait”
- Portuguese: “Estreito de Vitiaz”
- Russian: “Витязь”
- Spanish: “Estrecho Vitiaz”
- Swahili: “Mlangobahari wa Vitiaz”
- Vietnamese: “Eo biển Vitiaz”
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