D’Entrecasteaux Islands
D'Entrecasteaux Islands are situated near the eastern tip of New Guinea in the Solomon Sea in Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea. The group spans a distance of 160 km, has a total land area of approximately 3,100 km2 and is separated from the Papua New Guinea mainland by the 30 km wide Ward Hunt Strait in the north and the 18 km wide Goschen Strait in the south.- Island
- …lies at an elevation of 575 metres (1,886 feet)
- Description: island group
D’Entrecasteaux Islands
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Latitude
-9.65° or 9° 39′ south
Longitude
150.7° or 150° 42′ east
Open location code
6R2G8MXX+XX
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“D’Entrecasteaux Islands” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جزر دانتريكاستو”
- Asturian: “Islles d’Entrecasteaux”
- Basque: “D’Entrecasteaux uharteak”
- Bulgarian: “Д’Антрекасто (острови)”
- Bulgarian: “Д’Антрекасто”
- Catalan: “Illes d’Entrecasteaux”
- Cebuano: “D’Entrecasteaux Islands”
- Chinese: “当特尔卡斯托群岛”
- Chinese: “當特爾卡斯托群島”
- Czech: “D’Entrecasteauxovy ostrovy”
- Dutch: “D’Entrecasteaux-eilanden”
- Esperanto: “D’Entrecasteaux”
- Estonian: “D’Entrecasteaux‘ saared”
- Estonian: “D’Entrecasteaux’ saared”
- Estonian: “D’Entrecasteaux‘ saarestik”
- Finnish: “D’Entrecasteaux’nsaaret”
- Finnish: “D’Entrecasteauxinsaaret”
- French: “Archipel d’Entrecasteaux”
- French: “îles d’Entrecasteaux”
- French: “Îles d’Entrecasteaux”
- Georgian: “დ’ანტრკასტოს კუნძულები”
- German: “D’Entrecasteaux-Inseln”
- Hebrew: “איי ד’אנטרקסטו”
- Indonesian: “Kepulauan D’Entrecasteaux”
- Italian: “Isole di D’Entrecasteaux”
- Japanese: “ダントルカストー諸島”
- Japanese: “ダントロカストー諸島”
- Korean: “당트르카스토 제도”
- Lithuanian: “D’Antrkasto salos”
- Marathi: “दांत्रेकास्तू द्वीपसमूह”
- Mingrelian: “დ’ანტრკასტოშ კოკეფი”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “D’Entrecasteaux Islands”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “D’Entrecasteaux-øyene”
- Norwegian: “D’Entrecasteaux-øyene”
- Persian: “جزایر د انترکاستوکس”
- Polish: “Wyspy d’Entrecasteaux”
- Portuguese: “Ilhas d’Entrecasteaux”
- Russian: “Острова Д’Антркасто”
- Slovak: “D’Entrecasteauxove ostrovy”
- Slovenian: “D’Entrecasteaux Islands”
- Slovenian: “D’Entrecasteauxevi otoki”
- Spanish: “Archipielago D’Entrecasteaux”
- Spanish: “Islas d’Entrecasteaux”
- Spanish: “Islas de Entrecasteaux”
- Swedish: “D’Entrecasteaux-öarna”
- Swedish: “D´Entrecasteaux-öarna”
- Swiss German: “D’Entrecasteaux-Inseln”
- Swiss German: “D’Entrecasteaux-Insle”
- Thai: “D’Entrecasteaux Islands”
- Thai: “หมู่เกาะดอนเตรแคสโต”
- Ukrainian: “Острови Д’Антркасто”
- Vietnamese: “Quần đảo D’Entrecasteaux”
- Western Frisian: “D’Entrecasteaux-eilannen”
- Western Mari: “Д’Антркасто ошмаотывлӓ”
- Western Panjabi: “دانترا کاسترو جزیرے”
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